Joseph Jacks
Founder
Joseph Jacks (JJ) is the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital. Since 2018, JJ has directed OSS to lead more than 40 rounds of inception / seed stage investments representing over $200 million in funding. OSS has also played a critical role in driving the creation of over $20 billion in portfolio value creation over the last 5 years.
Chelsea Wei
CFO
Chelsea Wei serves as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at OSS Capital. She brings extensive experience in financial management and strategic leadership.
Prior to joining OSS Capital, Chelsea held several senior financial positions across prominent organizations. She served as Financial Controller at Felix Capital, where she managed financial operations for the London-based venture capital firm. Before that, she was Fund Controller at Frazier Healthcare Partners, overseeing funds’ operations and financial strategies for healthcare investments. Chelsea also gained valuable experience as an Auditor at PwC and held fund accounting leadership roles at Freestone Capital Management and UMB Bank.
Chelsea is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and has passed Level I of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Utah State University. She is fluent in English and Chinese.
Kevin Wang
CEO, FOSSA Inc.
Kevin Wang is a Strategic Advisor at OSS Capital where he helps founders of open source projects commercialize and scale. Kevin currently serves as the CEO of FOSSA, an open source license and vulnerability management platform adopted by the world’s largest enterprises and most popular open source projects. Kevin is a member of the 2018 Forbes “30 Under 30” list and was a 2013 Thiel Fellow.
FOSSA was named by Network World as “Top 5 Open Source Companies to Watch” in 2017 and is backed by Bain Capital, Marc Benioff, Steve Chen, Jaan Tallinn and Justin Mateen.
Scott Williamson
Portfolio Partner: Product
Heather Meeker
Founding Portfolio Partner
As an internationally-known expert in software licensing, for over 20 years Heather has been a thought leader and trusted advisor on the use of open source software in business, and has helped scores of emerging companies structure licensing and business models.
As a lawyer in private practice, Heather has been recognized with many awards for her work in law and technology, and advised clients from startups to global enterprises on software licenses and software copyright. She is a prolific writer and speaker on software licensing, and is the author of Open Source for Business, a go-to handbook for open source licensing in commerce.
Before her law career, Heather was a programmer of business applications and systems and a professional musician.