Robert J. Majteles: Mr. Majteles founded Treehouse Capital LLC in order to make investments of time and money in interesting people doing worthy things. Treehouse’s portfolio of private and public technology companies have been very successful in a wide array of markets and circumstances. Prior to launching Treehouse, Mr. Majteles was a successful CEO of three different technology companies and generated superior investment returns for his shareholders. In addition, Mr. Majteles has also been an investment banker and a merger and acquisitions attorney. Mr. Majteles is also a Lecturer at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Majteles has served, and continues to serve, as an active and involved board member in a number of publicly-traded and privately-held companies. Typically, Mr. Majteles is invited to join a company’s board of directors in order to embrace and extend a management team that is facing the challenges and transitions associated with needing to redefine or sharpen their strategic opportunities and/or to scale their operations. Mr. Majteles joins these boards as part of the Treehouse investment process and, when time, circumstances, and liquidity permit (Treehouse is a personal investment vehicle), Mr. Majteles also invests, via Treehouse, in the companies in his portfolio. The three companies Mr. Majteles led as a chief executive officer were all high capacity technology companies in need of rejuvenation and repair. Mr. Majteles was a successful leader of two out of the three companies, and failed with the third. The two successful companies, CAMAX Systems, Inc (a privately-held developer of mechanical CAD/CAM software) and ULTRADATA Corporation (a publicly-traded developer of banking software) were saved from near ruin and ultimately were sold to great shareholder benefit to larger, strategic buyers. The company Mr. Majteles led unsuccessfully (Citadon, Inc, a B2B company focused on the construction and heavy engineering marketplace) was, happily, a good enough opportunity to survive both the era in which it was launched and Mr. Majteles’ failed tenure and was subsequently acquired. Mr. Majteles’ chief failing at Citadon was to confuse market capitalization with strategy – a mistake that Mr. Majteles will never make again. Mr. Majteles received a law degree from Stanford University in 1989 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1986. Mr. Majteles lives with his wife, Pamela, who is a writer and a columnist, and their three children in the Bay Area of Northern California. |
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