Denny has over 25 years experience in law, management and engineering. He has been the managing partner of Venture Law Partners, a boutique law firm specializing in startups and founder of VentureQuest International, a corporate development advisory firm. He was Chairman of the Board of Professional Healthcare @ Home and Nurse Providers, Inc. which were both acquired by Mainsail Partners, a private equity fund. 

He has been a venture capitalist at Acuity Ventures, an early-stage Silicon Valley venture fund that invested primarily in technology and internet software. Prior to that, Denny was managing director for a Silicon Valley-based investment banking firm that provided corporate financial advisory and mergers & acquisition services to many technology firms.

He obtained his MBA in Finance from Stanford University, his Juris Doctorate from Fordham Law School and an MS in Chemical Engineering from University of Washington on a National Science Foundation scholarship. He was also a graduate fellow in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Georgia Tech. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, from University of Santo Tomas.

Although Denny has been a venture lawyer, executive advisor, and angel investor,  he is a dealmaker at heart.  He enjoys leading, negotiating and consummating numerous M&A deals, technology licensing, private equity and venture financings that significantly contributes to a company’s growth and profitability. 

Denny previously led mergers & acquisitions for two Fortune 50 companies — Kraft Heinz (formerly General Foods) and AT&T (formerly Pacific Telesis) and served as a legal and strategic advisor to Olympus Corporation of Japan and Wells Fargo’s Asian strategic business unit.