Experience:	After approximately eight years of helping clients analyze, value and invest in closely-held companies, Natasha founded Blackshear Capital & Legal, PLLC in 2005.   Prior to founding the firm, Natasha worked as a venture capitalist for five years at Council Ventures, LP, during which time she analyzed over 800 business plans, interviewed scores of entrepreneurs, performed intensive due diligence (business, financial and legal), negotiated transaction terms, drafted and edited term sheets and closing documents. In all, Natasha helped to invest and reserve over $34 million in nine portfolio companies.   Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Natasha worked as a senior associate in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Corporate Valuation Consulting division (now merged with the investment bank of Duff and Phelps) where she performed valuations of clients' financial securities, businesses or business units, and underlying intangible assets by performing economic and financial analyses for business transaction, financial reporting and estate tax purposes.
Education:	J.D. 1997, Harvard Law School M.B.A. January 1998, Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management B.S., 1993, Cornell University (Applied Economics and Management; Golden Key National Honor Society) Studied at the University of Seville Business School in Spain
Bar Admissions:	New York, Massachusetts and Tennessee
Boards and Civic Involvement:	Member, Tennessee Commission on Children & Youth; Advisory Board of Cornell University's Emerging Markets Program; Member, Board of Directors of Market Matters, Inc., Member, Board of Trusts of American Sentinel University; Member, Board of Directors of Harvard Club of Middle Tennessee, of which she is also a past president; Member, Rotary Club of Middle Tennessee; Member, the American, Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations.
Foreign Languages:	Spanish