Kathy Harris

Kathy Harris is a Partner at Noro-Moseley Partners (“NMP”), the oldest and one of the largest venture capital firms in the Southeastern US.  The firm has over $650 million under management through six funds and has invested in more than 150 companies.  At NMP, Ms. Harris focuses on business development efforts throughout the Southeast.  She also focuses on NMP’s investment activities in the healthcare industry and serves on the Board of Valor Healthcare, Inc.

Ms. Harris has over 25 years of finance and investment experience. Prior to NMP, Ms. Harris was a Partner at Technology Ventures, an Atlanta-based venture capital firm where she evaluated investment opportunities in the information technology areas and actively worked with the firm’s portfolio companies. Prior to Technology Ventures, Ms. Harris served as Vice President/National Marketing Manager of Sirrom Capital Corporation, where she oversaw all business development and loan origination activities.  Prior to Sirrom, Ms. Harris spent more than 10 years at J.C. Bradford & Co. (now UBS) where she was Senior Vice President of the Investment Banking Group.  She was involved in more than 100 investment banking transactions totaling over $2 billion including equity, debt and convertible debenture public offerings and private equity and debt placements.  She was also involved in a number of merger and acquisition and financial advisory assignments.

Ms. Harris started her career at KPMG and is a CPA licensed in Tennessee (inactive).  She holds an MBA in Finance and Human Resource Management from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.  She received her BS in Accounting from Murray State University. 

Ms. Harris is the Vice Chair of the Board of Hands On Atlanta and also serves on the Boards of the Atlanta chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, the South Carolina Investor Network and The Alliance Theatre Company.  She is also a member of The Women's Leadership Board at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Clemson University Research Foundation.  Ms. Harris is an active member of the Atlanta Venture Forum and the Nashville Healthcare Council.  In 2006, Business to Business Magazine named her one of Atlanta’s 16 “Women of Excellence.” Ms. Harris has served on the Boards of TechBridge and Women in Technology and was a Georgia 100 mentor. She is a native of Kentucky.