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E. Roe Stamps IV is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist who established theStamps Scholarship. He is the founding partner of theprivate equity firmSummit Partners. He is also a member of theGeorgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees.[1]
Stamps graduated from theGeorgia Institute of Technology with a B.S. (1967) and an M.S. (1972) in industrial engineering. He also holds anMBA fromHarvard Business School (1974).[2]
Stamps worked as a partner at TA Associates and as a senior investment manager atFirst Chicago Corporation. He also spent five years as director of Ameripath and seven years as a member of the board of the Pediatrix Medical Group.[2]
In 1984, he co-founded Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm based in Boston.[3] Ultimately, Summit Partners invested in 350 business and has completed more than 125 public offerings, and now has more than $30 billion under management.[4]
Stamps is a member of the board of trustees of the Georgia Tech Foundation and theIntrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. In 2004, the National Venture Capital Association presented him with their Outstanding Service Award for his work to engage theventure capital industry in public policy.[2]
In 2006, he was named a trustee of theJohn S. and James L. Knight Foundation.[2]
Stamps is a benefactor in theStamps Family Charitable Foundation. Stamps received an honorary degree fromElizabethtown College after their first class ofStamps Scholars graduated in May 2015,[5] and an honorary doctorate from Georgia Tech in 2014.[6]
Stamps and his wife, Penny, retired to Miami in 2001. Stamps is aprivate pilot.[7]
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