Michael C. McChesney is a founding partner of Five Paces Ventures and has been the founder or Chairman of four successful Internet-based technology companies: SecureWare Inc.

SecureWare Inc.

SecureWare Inc., founded in 1986 developed software and encryption technology for securing Unix-based operating systems, and was sold to Hewlett Packard in 1994. It was developed to help secure the worlds first internet bank, Security First Network Bank...

, Technologics Inc., S1 Corporation (formally Security First Network Bank

Security First Network Bank

Security First Network Bank was the first pure Internet bank in the United States. It was founded in Pineville, Kentucky in October 1995. Several months later, the bank relocated to Atlanta, Georgia....

) and WebTone Technologies

WebTone Technologies

WebTone Technologies, founded Atlanta, Ga in 1998, is spin off of S1 Technologies . It is leading provider of Internet-enabled customer service and support solutions, which was sold to Fidelity National in 2003....

, Inc.

Michael is a graduate of The Westminster Schools

The Westminster Schools

The Westminster Schools is a private school in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1951 and tracing its origins to 1878, Westminster has the largest endowment of any non-boarding school in the United States...

in Atlanta, Ga, Vanderbilt University, and holds an MBA from the Wharton school of business.