Co-Founder
Larry Wilson is a co-founder of The Trelys Funds and formerly served as a Managing General Partner of the inaugural Trelys fund. He currently serves as a Venture Partner with Pequot Ventures, where he focuses on insurance technologies.
Mr. Wilson is the former chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of Mynd Corporation (formerly Policy Management Systems Corporation or PMSC), which merged into Computer Sciences Corporation in December 2000. With corporate headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina, Mynd had approximately 6,000 employees worldwide and was a leading provider of application software, related automation support and outsourcing services designed to meet the needs of the global insurance and financial services industries. Mynd was a publicly held corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Mr. Wilson began his career with the Seibels Bruce Group, an insurance company, at age 19 while attending the University of South Carolina. After holding various management positions, he had responsibility for creating the PMS Division of Seibels Bruce in 1974. Regarded as the founder of PMSC, Mr. Wilson served as its chief executive officer from its incorporation in 1981 until its merger with CSC in December of 2000.
Mr. Wilson is a 1969 graduate of the University of South Carolina (USC) with a bachelor of science degree in marketing, and he received a masters of business administration degree from USC in 1970.
Among the many honors and recognitions he has received, Mr. Wilson was named one of the top three CEOs in the computer software and services industry five times by The Wall Street Transcript. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from USC's College of Business Administration and the Yale University Cultural Achievement Award.
Mr. Wilson is married with two children and is engaged in many leadership activities at the local, regional and statewide levels.
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