Raul Fernandez currently is Vice Chairman and co-owner of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, a private partnership that owns some of Washington, D.C.’s major sports franchises, including the WNBA’s 2019 Champion Washington Mystics, the NHL’s 2018 Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals, the Washington Wizards, and the NBA 2K League’s 2020 Champion Wizards District Gaming. The partnership also owns and operates Washington, D.C.’s premier sports and entertainment complex, Capital One Arena. He is also a Senior Advisor and Limited Partner to General Atlantic Partners, a growth equity firm with more than $53 billion of assets under management. Well-known in the tech industry as the founder of Proxicom (NASDAQ: PXCM), which under his leadership evolved into a prominent global provider of e-commerce solutions for Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Fernandez guided the growth of Proxicom from its launch in 1991 to public listing in 1999. Proxicom was acquired by Dimension Data (LSE: DDT) in an all-cash transaction valued at $450 million. From 2000 to 2002, he served as Chief Executive Officer for Dimension Data North America, an information systems integration company, and as a Director of its parent company, Dimension Data Holdings Plc, in 2001. He also served from 2004 to 2017 as Chairman and CEO for ObjectVideo, a leading developer of intelligent video surveillance software, which was sold to Alarm.com. He has also previously served as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Mr. Fernandez currently serves on the Board of Directors at Broadcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a global technology leader in semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, and Capitol Investment Corp. V (NYSE: CAP). He also served as a director of Kate Spade & Co. from 2001 through 2017 and of GameStop Corp. from 2019 through June 9, 2021. Mr. Fernandez also sits on the Board of Directors of URBANEER, an urban innovation company designing and engineering next generation living spaces, InSite, a privately held technology company that provides innovative building performance management solutions, Brightspot, a full-service product company that capitalizes on its expanded product portfolio to drive innovations in web and mobile development for corporations worldwide, and is on the Strategic Advisory Board of Volition Capital, a Boston-based growth equity firm. Mr. Fernandez is an active technology investor in disruptive companies, including Cloud9 eSports, SyncThink, Radius Networks, SUGARFISH, Professional Fighters League (MMA), and RemoteRetail.