Our Team
Former entrepreneurs and C-level operators who have experienced successful exits across their corporate careers.
Chris Barrow
Managing Director
Mr. Barrow has over 30 years of experience across the software, technology and services sectors. His background includes senior system engineering roles and enterprise sales positions including the management of a large global sales organization. In 2008, Mr. Barrow became President and CEO of pre-revenue startup EagleView Technologies. Under his leadership, EagleView became one of the fastest-growing technology concerns in the U.S., resulting in its 2015 acquisition by a large private equity firm. In late 2016, he founded Imagen Capital Partners, a venture firm focused on investments in SaaS/software, data analytics and technology-enabled concerns.
Mr. Barrow received his BS from Brigham Young University. He is fluent in Spanish having lived in Bogota, Colombia for 10 years and also served a 2 year Spanish-speaking mission in East Los Angeles working with Hispanic families and youth. Mr. Barrow has actively served in leadership roles in the boy scouts and with youth organizations for over a decade. He is an avid outdoorsman with a passion for fly fishing.
John Polchin
Managing Director
Mr. Polchin is a Managing Director at Imagen Capital Partners. Prior to co-founding Imagen, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of EagleView Technology Corporation, a leading geospatial and data analytics concern where he navigated the company through massive organic scale, several acquisitions and lastly the successful exit to a large PE firm. His background includes additional public and private company CFO positions within the information services, software, and financial technology sectors, which include managing the completion of over $3B in corporate financings and M&A transactions.
Mr. Polchin currently serves on the board of directors of UV360, Inc., ioCurrents, Inc. (board chair) and Yembo, Inc., while also remaining an active Springboard Business Advisor with San Diego-based CONNECT (a not-for-profit group promoting technology entrepreneurship). Mr. Polchin holds a BA in economics, cum laude, from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.