Hugh Carspecken

Managing Partner, Founding Partner, NewStage Ventures

Hugh has nearly 30 years of cross-industry technology experience, from data networking to compute and AI infrastructure to data centers.

He spent his early career engineering and deploying metro fiber, access, and cellular networks with GTE (later Verizon), while later helping to start and grow to exit several, successful start-ups in Silicon Valley, such as ONI Systems (NASDAQ: ONIS before NYSE: CIEN), FiberTower (NASDAQ: FTWR before NYSE: T), and Wave2Wave Solutions. In these roles Hugh helped bridge the gap between the state of technology and its implementation, in order to accelerate the technology’s adoption in the market.

After leaving Silicon Valley, Hugh held a senior leadership role at Fujitsu Network Communications, launching and growing Fujitsu’s multi-technology Solutions organization, with regards to fiber, wireless, cellular, and data center infrastructures.

Through his founding of DartPoints, a leading Edge date center company, from its founding in 2012 and to its successful acquisition in 2020, Hugh has been a leading pioneer in the Data Center and Compute industries, in which he drove the evolution of highly-distributed data centers to adapt better to the growing and morphing requirements of today’s compute and AI applications and digital infrastructure.

Hugh founded NewStage Ventures in 2020 to continue following his passion in digital infrastructure innovation, focusing on three core investment tenets across operating companies that simplify and expedite digital evolution: power aggregation and access management (CH Development Partner, LLC), electrical and mechanical equipment and construction logistics (OFCI Mission Critical, LLC), and digital and energy infrastructure (Quantia Holdings, SRL).

He received his A.B. and B.E. in Engineering from Dartmouth College and his Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from the Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business. He enjoys spending his free time with his wife and two daughters in Dallas, TX.