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Ward W. Woods is a Special Partner of Bessemer Holdings & Co., and BayBoston Managers LLC. Woods serves as a Manager at Bessemer Securities LLC. He was Special Partner of Lindsay Goldberg. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Bessemer Securities LLC and at Bessemer Securities Corporation from 1989 until his retirement in December 1999. From 1989 to 2000, Woods served as Managing General Partner or Principal Manager or Founding Partner of the general partner of Bessemer Holdings LP and other affiliated investment partnerships including those comprising the BH Group. Prior to February 1989, he was a Senior Partner at Lazard Freres & Co. Prior to joining Lazard, he served as a Managing Director and a Partner of Lehman Brothers and was Co-Head of the Corporate Finance Department. Woods serves as Chairman of BCP/Essex Holdings Inc. He has been Chairman of Stant Corporation since 1989 and also serves as its Director. He served as Chairman of Essex International Inc. He se
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 672 investors hold the Director role in VCSift. Ward Woods is one of them.
- • 14 investors are based in Newton Center, Massachusetts, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated June 2026.
Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
- Location
- Newton Center, US
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