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Michael J. Moniz
Managing Director
Michael J. Moniz, one of the co-founders of Sage Canyon Advisors,
currently serves as one of our Managing Directors.
With over 13 years of corporate and government leadership experience,
Michael Moniz also serves as the President, co-founder and CEO of
Circadence Corporation, a Boulder, Colorado-based industry-leading
provider of wide area network (WAN) optimization technology to the US
Government and commercial enterprises. He was also Vice President of
Online Network Enterprises, Inc. from 1995 until its merger with VR•1.
Under Mr. Moniz’s direction, VR•1 changed its name to Circadence and
focused on both the online entertainment market and the development of
solutions for bandwidth-constrained services over the Internet.
During his career, Mr. Moniz has been instrumental in raising over $200
million in funding and building strategic relationships with Boeing
Corporation, Smiths Aerospace, CSK Ventures (Hitachi), Microsoft,
Deutsche Telekom, Hewlett Packard, Global Crossing, Pacific Century
Cyberworks Japan (PCCWJ) and Accenture. He also successfully negotiated
strategic alliance and business contracts with industry leaders as
diverse as Microsoft, British Telecom, France Telecom, Bertelsmann,
Samsung, AOL, Panasonic and Sony. In February 2001, Mr. Moniz negotiated
the sale of the VR•1 entertainment division to Pacific Century Cyber
Works Japan for $38 million in stock consideration and $10 million cash.
In the late fall of 2001, Mr. Moniz, along with Lt. General (USAF-ret)
Kenneth Minihan, the 14th Director of the National Security Agency, Alf
Andreassen, Science Advisor to the President, and James Woolsey, the
16th Director of Central Intelligence, founded Paladin Capital Group’s
Homeland Security Fund, where he continues to serve as a Principal. The
$233 Million Dollar Homeland Security Fund is a Washington; DC-based
group investing in enterprises whose principal business centers on
products and services addressing homeland security issues and needs. The
Fund includes prominent Limited Partners such as the Boeing Corporation,
Smiths Detection, Motorola, Sumitomo, Battelle Labs and Siemens AG. The
Fund's first priority is to invest in existing companies with immediate
solutions designed to prevent harmful attacks, defend against attacks,
cope with the aftermath of attack or disaster and recover from terrorist
attacks and other threats to homeland security.
Prior to founding Sage Canyon Advisors, Mr. Moniz provided business
strategy and merger and acquisition advice through Canyonside LLC, for
which he serves as Managing Director. In June 2004, Canyonside was an
advisor to SensIR during their $75 million sale to Smiths Aerospace.
Most recently, Canyonside acted as an advisor to Livewave in their $23
million sale to Smiths Detection.
Previously, Mr. Moniz founded and led a number of successful
enterprises, including: VR•1, Inc. Acquired by PCCWJ; Online Network
Enterprises (ONE), an Internet Service Provider acquired by Rocky
Mountain Internet (RMI) in 1997; Digital Matrix, a hardware sales and
software development company (Acquired); SolarTech Enterprises LLC, a
designer and developer of patented chemical ultraviolet sensors, winner
of the US-West New Venture Fund and the recipient of two National Cancer
Institute research grants; Bid-Cast, a B2G E-Commerce Web site
specializing in government procurement opportunities, and; Forefront, a
venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage
Internet-related companies. In addition, Mr. Moniz was the President of
Trilogy magazine, an award winning outdoor and environmental publication
and the president and Founder of The Outdoor Network magazine; the most
widely read outdoor education publication in the world.
Mr. Moniz serves on the Advisory Board of the National Center for
Biodefense Communications and is a member of the University of Colorado
Atlas Center Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Northern
Therapeutics Board of Directors, a private biopharmaceutical company
committed to the discovery and development of novel cell and gene
therapies to extend and enhance the quality of the lives of people
suffering from chronic life-threatening pulmonary disorders. Mr. Moniz
has previously served on the boards of the National Defense Industry
Association – Mile High Chapter, Collage Children’s Museum and Planet
Outdoors, and has been a managing partner for SolarTech Enterprises and
Forefront Capital Management.
In June 2004 and August 2006, Mr. Moniz was an invited speaker at the
NATO Bioterrorism Conferences in Madrid, Spain and Brno, Czech Republic,
respectively. In 2001, Mr. Moniz was nominated by Ernst & Young as
Entrepreneur of the Year, he was featured in New York Times best-selling
author Debra Benton’s How to Act Like a CEO, and he has been a speaker
at several national conferences and tradeshows. Mr. Moniz was educated
at the University of Colorado Boulder and Harvard University. He has
completed the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School of the
Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the University of
Pennsylvania. Mr. Moniz also maintains a Security Clearance with the
United States Department of Defense.
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