Bruce Hallett – Managing Director

Bruce Hallett – Managing Director

Bruce is a co-founder of Miramar and brings his enthusiasm for innovation, product strategy and team building to Miramar’s portfolio companies.  With over two decades of collaborations with technology entrepreneurs, Bruce leads Miramar investments in internet infrastructure and software.  Currently, he serves on the boards of the following Miramar portfolio companies: Brand Affinity Technologies, HyperQuality, OptionEase and RealPractice.  He also served on the boards of Aktino (acquired by Positron) and Berkana Wireless (acquired by Qualcomm).

Prior to founding Miramar, Bruce was Managing Partner of  the Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison Orange County office, where he orchestrated initial public offerings, venture financings and liquidity events for many high profile technology companies in Southern California, including Broadcom, Buy.com, Exult and Applied Semantics (acquired by Google in 2003).

Bruce was one of seven partners on Brobeck’s firmwide executive committee until he started Miramar in 2001.  He was also one of three partners responsible for investing and managing the firm's venture capital funds.  In 1999, Bruce was selected by the California State Bar as one of the 100 most influential attorneys in California.

Bruce received his B.A. magna cum laude from UC Irvine and his J.D. from UCLA. From 2007-2010 he was Chair of the Chief Executive Roundtable at UC Irvine, a group of business leaders committed to building mutually beneficial, strategic partnerships between the university and the community. Bruce also serves on the Board of Directors of OCTANe, LAVA, and the School of Biological Sciences Dean's Leadership Council at UCI.  Starting July 1, 2010, Bruce joins the Board of Regents of the University of California as the UC alumni regent.