From 1990 to 1997, Ms. Sullivan was an investing principal of Olivetti Ventures the New York City-based investment arm of Ing. C. Olivetti & C., S.p.A., the European computer services conglomerate located in Ivrea, Italy. Ms. Sullivan’s responsibilities included deal flow, portfolio management, and strategic participation in exit strategies. She also served on the Board of Directors of several of the partnership’s technology portfolio companies.

Ms. Sullivan has invested in a wide range of technology companies, including communications products, hardware and software tools, enabling technologies for the Internet, Web-based content, enterprise software, and semiconductors. Olivetti typically co-invested, and in some cases originated investments, with premier venture firms in Silicon Valley and Boston.

From 1981 to 1990, Ms. Sullivan was with AT&T, serving in a variety of product management and business-to-business marketing roles, and was the Product Director for a Bell Laboratories internal venture business unit. The product, a high-end parallel processor with graphics and scientific imaging libraries, utilized enabling technologies that are now part of the Internet. Her prior experience in marketing and advertising with Bozell Worldwide (1971–1978) gave Ms. Sullivan the business foundation for creating and developing marketing programs and plans for many businesses.

Ms. Sullivan holds a BS from the University of Illinois and a JD from Creighton University School of Law. She directed the selection committee as part of the founding group for the New York New Media Association Angel Investors Program. She is active with the Natural Resource Defense Council, a nonprofit New York City-based organization that lobbies for environmental reform, and established the New York area Environmental Entrepreneurs group comprised of business and technology leaders. She is also on the Emerging Enterprise Committee of the National Minority Business Council. Ms. Sullivan is a sought-after industry speaker on the subject of investing in and building technology companies and serves as an adjunct professor of marketing at the graduate level.