Mr. Van Note launched the Van Note Group, a business consultancy, in 2002 to provide strategic advice to startup financial services and technology firms and their sponsors.  Some of its clients include a merchant bank in San Francisco, a newly formed mortgage origination firm in the Midwest and a reorganizing technology services firm in Brussels, Belgium.

Mr. Van Note was General Manager and Director of Strategic Planning from 1996 to 2001 for Plural, Inc. (a Wall Street based software consulting firm and incubator).  Mr. Van Note rapidly built a services and incubation practice from zero to 50 technology, creative and strategic professionals in the Midwest, and helped grow the overall firm from to 600 professionals and $100 million in revenues. 

Mr. Van Note was Director of Financial Services for Vicor, Inc. (a Bay Area advanced technology and strategic consulting firm) from 1990 to 1995.  Mr. Van Note was instrumental in growing the firm from startup to over 250 professionals, successfully acquiring and integrating 2 firms and spinning out a subsidiary into a now public company. 

Mr. Van Note worked for Citibank and Ziegler, S.A. from 1985 to 1989 leading financial services and technology initiatives.

Mr. Van Note graduated from Stanford University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations.  Mr. Van Note is a 1985 graduate of L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, a masters level graduate business program, in Paris, France.