E. Roe Stamps IV is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist who established the

Stamps Scholarship The Stamps Scholarship is a merit-based undergraduate scholarship that was established in 2006 by E. Roe Stamps and his late wife Penny, with the purpose of enabling extraordinary educational experiences for extraordinary students. Through partner ...

. He is the founding partner of the private equity firm

Summit Partners Summit Partners is an American private equity firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm focuses on investing in technology, healthcare, life sciences and other growth industries. Background Summit Partners was founded in 1984 by Roe St ...

. He is also a member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees.

Early life and education

Stamps graduated from the

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

with a B.S. (1967) and an M.S. (1972) in industrial engineering. He also holds an MBA from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

(1974).

Career

Stamps worked as a partner at TA Associates and as a senior investment manager at

First Chicago Corporation First Chicago Bank was a Chicago-based retail and commercial bank tracing its roots to 1863. Over the years, the bank operated under several names including The First National Bank of Chicago and First Chicago NBD (following its 1995 merger with ...

. He also spent five years as director of Ameripath and seven years as a member of the board of the Pediatrix Medical Group. In 1984, he co-founded Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm based in Boston. Ultimately, Summit Partners invested in 350 business and has completed more than 125 public offerings, and now has $15 billion under management.

Public service

Stamps is a member of the board of trustees of the Georgia Tech Foundation and the

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. In 2004, the National Venture Capital Association presented him with their Outstanding Service Award for his work to engage the

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which ha ...

industry in public policy. In 2006, he was named a trustee of the

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, also known as the Knight Foundation, is an American non-profit foundation that provides grants for journalism, communities, and the arts. The organization was founded as the Knight Memorial Education ...

Stamps Family Charitable Foundation

Stamps is a benefactor in the

Stamps Family Charitable Foundation The Stamps Family Charitable Foundation offers merit scholarships to 44 partner colleges and universities in the United States. The Foundation and scholarships are named for their benefactors, E. Roe Stamps IV and Penelope W. Stamps. In general, in ...

. Stamps received an honorary degree from

Elizabethtown College Elizabethtown College (informally E-town) is a private college in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. History Founding and early years Founded in 1899, Elizabethtown College is one of many higher learning institutions founded in the 19th century by c ...

after their first class of Stamps Scholars graduated in May 2015, and an honorary doctorate from Georgia Tech in 2014.

Personal life

Stamps and his wife, Penny, retired to Miami in 2001. Stamps is a

private pilot A private pilot licence (PPL) or, in the United States, a private pilot certificate, is a type of pilot licence that allows the holder to act as pilot in command of an aircraft privately (not for remuneration). The licence requirements are dete ...

References

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