Pip Coburn

Pip Coburn

Pip Coburn founded, along with his core team from UBS, a firm named Coburn Ventures, an organization that puts its knowledge about "change" to work in the realm of technology, telecom, and media investing. On August 19, 2005 Coburn Ventures group released the first beta of its bi-weekly thought piece "Waypoints," the successor to "The Weekly Global Tech Journey" that Pip’s group generated from 1999 to 2005 at UBS – to subscribe to “Waypoints” just link to www.CoburnVentures.com. Coburn began providing advisory services in 2005 and launched a hedge fund in May 2006.
 
Prior to founding Coburn Ventures, Pip Coburn was a Managing Director and the global technology strategist in the technology group of UBS Investment Research. At UBS, he was responsible for integrating the research efforts of 120 technology and telecom analysts worldwide, and from 1999 through 2005 was a member of the firm wide Investment Committee. He has been featured in Fast Company, Barron’s, Fortune, Smart Money and MIT's Technology Review. For three years Pip wrote as a guest columnist for the Red Herring.

In 2000 Pip gained recognition for calling for a prolonged and widespread global tech collapse in equities near the market heights -- while even few individual sell recommendations on tech stocks existed from individual analysts.

Prior to joining UBS in 1999, Pip was a Senior Vice President at Lynch & Mayer Inc., an institutional money manager located in New York. At Lynch & Mayer he was a member of the Executive Committee and acted as a portfolio manager and technology analyst.

Pip studies change for a living. In addition to writing over 300 weekly reports about technology investing, in 2004 and 2005 he released two long-term think-pieces, The Nutcracker Suite and Sour and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Changing Galaxy. These reports focus on the user-oriented "Change Function" — a mental model Pip has developed that describes why change takes place and why various technologies are either adopted or not.

The May 2006 edition of Fast Company features the change framework thinking of The Change Function.

A leading member of a group of like minded change thinkers, Pip writes a weekly blog for Tony Perkins's AlwaysOn Network - click on www.alwayson-network.com to see some of his work there.

In that same vein, along with change-thinker Jerry Michalski, Pip co-hosts the weekly open-by-invitation Yi-Tan www.yi-tan.com conference call that is dedicated to identifying and understanding change and technology. Pip is also an advisor to Taking IT Global www.takingitglobal.org a global on-line community for youths, and a member of TTI Vanguard’s think-tank.

Pip earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he founded the Wharton Fellows Fund; and an A.B. from Brown University, where he sacrificed a fledgling -- or dead end -- soccer career to pursue with passion and senselessness the role of scrumhalf on Brown's rugby squad. He is the father of triplets and the husband of Kelly. He dabbles in marathons, is mediocre at golf and roots for the Buckeyes, Indians, Cavs and Browns. He and his family spend as much time in Maine as possible.