Pascal joined Dolby Family Ventures, L.P. in 2014 after advising the Dolby family on its direct technology investment portfolio since 2012. He is the founder and Managing Partner of Levensohn Venture Partners LLC (LVP) and the CEO of Levensohn Global LLC (LG). Pascal has over 42 years of business experience: 40 years as a professional investor and fund manager and 28 years of experience as a venture capitalist. With his partners at Dolby Family Ventures, Pascal currently manages over 80 early stage portfolio company investments in sectors ranging from Augmented Reality and Aerospace to Materials Sciences and Biotech.
Through LG, Pascal advises a select group of multi-generational family offices on governance, direct technology investments, and philanthropy.
He is currently the Chairman of the Board of SoundThinking, Inc. (NASDAQ:SSTI), Chairman of the board of NativeWaves GmbH (Salzburg, Austria), and a director of Cure Network Dolby Acceleration Partners LLC (CNDAP). He is a formal board observer of Salvia BioElectronics (Netherlands).
He has served as board chairman, audit committee chairman, compensation committee chairman, and board secretary for venture-backed companies since 1996 and first served as a public company director in 1993. An expert on corporate governance, since 1999 he has published three widely read white papers on this topic.
Pascal is a former director of the National Venture Capital Association (2007-2011). He was a faculty member of the Kauffman Fellows Program Center for Venture Education (2006-2020) teaching the Corporate Governance module. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin.
Pascal holds an AB in Government, cum laude, from Harvard University. He is a former co-chairman of the Socrates Society Forum of the Aspen Institute (2007-2009), and a former Chairman of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation’s Business Leadership Council (2007-2008).