Lori Steffel

Lori focuses on growth equity investment opportunities across a broad range of sectors at Norwest with an emphasis on software and information services. Before joining Norwest, she was part of Evercore’s technology investment banking team, where she advised on M&A transactions across application software, infrastructure software, and the AI tools space. Lori holds a bachelor […]

Max Zhang

Max focuses on growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors at Norwest including technology, business services, media, and consumer. Prior to joining Norwest, Max was an investment banking analyst at Wells Fargo on their Technology M&A team. Max graduated from Santa Clara University and majored in finance.

Krista Jiranek

Krista focuses on growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors at Norwest. Prior to Norwest, Krista was an Investment Banking Associate at TD Cowen on the Consumer team, where she gained experience across M&A and capital markets transactions. Krista graduated from Trinity College with a bachelor of science in economics and was also […]

Sudhir Menon

Sudhir “Suds”  Menon is a senior advisor at Norwest, providing counsel to Norwest’s portfolio companies in the areas of AI, technology, and engineering. Suds brings over 25 years of experience building cutting edge highly successful enterprise products in the area of data and AI and leading highly productive teams around the world. He most recently […]

Owen Chun

On the venture team, Owen focuses on early- to late-stage investments in enterprise software and infrastructure. Most recently, Owen was an investor at Eniac, where he focused on early-stage enterprise software investments. Prior to Eniac, he was an investment banker at JP Morgan. Owen has a bachelor of business administration degree in finance from Baruch […]