1725 Investors and VCs

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1	Firm Name	Name	Title	Description
2	Accel Partners	Andrew Braccia	General Partner	Andrew Braccia joined Accel in 2007 and focuses on consumer-oriented mobile and web services companies. He was the first investor and board member in Slack, lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), Squarespace, Vox Media, MyFitnessPal (acquired by Under Armour), 99designs and Cloudera. He also works closely with the teams at Braintree (acquired by PayPal), Etsy (public), Xero (public) and UserTesting. For more than a decade, Andrew ran Yahoo’s search and marketplace businesses. During his time he oversaw the acquisitions and integrations of Flickr, Del.icio.us, Inktomi and Overture. Andrew is from Santa Rosa, California and graduated from the University of Arizona, where he sits on the business school board.
3	Accel Partners	Kevin Efrusy	Partner	Kevin Efrusy joined Accel in 2003 and focuses on software and consumer investments. Kevin was the lead investor in a number of pioneering companies including Facebook (which he sourced for Accel in 2005), Groupon (public), Couchbase, SpringSource (acquired by VMWare), BBN Technologies (acquired by Raytheon), CAN Capital and MemSQL. He also leads the firm’s Latin America initiatives, resulting in investments in Despegar, Mind Lab, Baby.com.br and Elo7. Prior to Accel, Kevin founded Corio, a software-as-a-service pioneer that went public and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later, he built and served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment with annual gross sales of more than $500 million. Kevin is from the Chicago area and graduated with a B.S. in Engineering and MBA from Stanford.
4	Accel Partners	Jake Flomenberg	Partner	Jake Flomenberg joined Accel in 2012 and focuses on next-generation infrastructure, enterprise software, and security investments. Jake is part of the team responsible for Accel's Big Data Fund and led investments in Origami Logic, Sumo Logic, Trifacta and Zoomdata. Prior to Accel, Jake was director of product management at Splunk, where he was responsible for the product’s user interface and big data strategy. Previously, he worked at Cloudera where he helped the founding team tackle a broad array of sales, marketing and product issues. Before Cloudera, he was a member of Lockheed Martin's Engineering Leadership Development Program. Jake is from Cherry Hill, New Jersey and graduated from Duke University. He has a Masters in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
5	Accel Partners	Sameer Gandhi	Partner	Sameer Gandhi joined Accel in 2008 and focuses on consumer, software and services companies. He also works closely with Accel’s India team. Sameer led Accel's early investments in BirchBox, Bonobos, Crowdstrike, Diapers.com (acquired by Amazon), DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam (acquired by Google), Learnvest (acquired by Northwestern Mutual), Plex, Raise, Spotify and Venmo (acquired by Braintree). Sameer's work with Accel India led to the first outside investments in Flipkart, BookMyShow, Myntra and Taxi4Sure (acquired by OLA) – four of India’s most prominent technology companies today. Prior to Accel, Sameer was a partner at Sequoia and led investments in companies like Barracuda Networks, Gracenote, Trulia (acquired by Zillow) and Sourcefire. Sameer is from Gaithersburg, Maryland and graduated from MIT and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
6	Accel Partners	Daniel Levine	Partner	Daniel Levine first joined Accel in 2010 and focuses on next-generation developer and open-source communities. Dan currently works with the teams at Checkr, Trifacta and others. He re-joined Accel after spending time at Dropbox, where he worked on the platform team. He helped open the platform to third-party developers and launched and managed many of the company’s developer-facing initiatives. Earlier, Dan co-founded Chartio, a Y-Combinator (S10)-backed startup in the data visualization space, and prior to Chartio, worked on CrunchBase at TechCrunch. Dan is from Washington, DC and graduated from Yale.
7	Accel Partners	Ping Li	General Partner	Ping Li joined Accel in 2004 and focuses on enterprise software application and infrastructure investments. He is the lead investor and board member at Blue Jeans, Cloudera, Code 42, DataGravity, Primary Data, Ratpr, Sysdig and Trifacta. Ping is also active in the security space as an investor at Illumio, Lookout Mobile Security, Tenable Network Security and previously, Imperva. He was also responsible for numerous past investments with notable exits, including Arista (public), Nimble Storage (public), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco) and RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce). Prior to Accel, Ping served as product line manager and director of corporate development at Juniper Networks. He started his technology career in Asia working for Singapore Telecom and Goldman Sachs Asia's technology practice. Ping advises the Accel Innovation Scholars program at Stanford University, where he works with PhD students learning about entrepreneurship. He is also an advisor to Heavybit, a community for developer- and operations-focused entrepreneurs. Ping is from New Jersey and graduated from Harvard and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
8	Accel Partners	Vas Natarajan	Partner	Vas Natarajan joined Accel in 2010 and focuses on products and services that target developers, designers and media creators. He is on the board or actively involved in developer-focused companies like Segment and Tune Analytics; design and creative media companies like InVisionApp, lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), VSCO, Pixate (acquired by Google) and Industrial Toys. He also led the firm’s seed investments in Lytmus, Frame.io and Skydio. In addition to his current work, Vas is active with Accel’s India practice, and helps to co-lead the firm’s Big Data and Tech Council initiatives. Vas is from Augusta, Georgia and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
9	Accel Partners	Brian O'Malley	Partner	Brian O’Malley joined Accel in 2013 and spearheads Accel's work with next-generation marketplaces and consumer-focused companies. He led the firm’s investments in Amino, Gametime, HotelTonight, Shuddle and Sprig, as well as disruptive software-as-a-services businesses, Duetto and Narvar. He joined Accel from Battery Ventures, where as a general partner he led investments in companies like Dollar Shave Club, BazaarVoice (public), BrightEdge, Coupa and Skullcandy (public). Prior to Battery, Brian led sales efforts and built some of the first web service-based API integrations for Bowstreet, Inc. (acquired by IBM). He started his career as a developer for Motorola. Brian lived in eight cities, five states and two countries before the age of 18. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
10	Accel Partners	Ryan Sweeney	Partner	Ryan Sweeney joined Accel in 2008 and manages its growth fund. He is the first outside investor and board member in a number of leading enterprise software companies like Atlassian, Hootsuite, Qualtrics, Squarespace and Xero. Ryan is also active with innovative mobile and payments startups like Invoice2go, Lightspeed and VSCO. He was also responsible for numerous investments with notable exits, including AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Braintree/Venmo (acquired by PayPal), Groupon (public), Lynda.com (acquired by Linkedin) and OzForex (public). Ryan grew up in South Jersey and graduated from Notre Dame and Harvard Business School.
11	Accel Partners	Eric Wolford	Partner	Eric Wolford joined Accel in 2014 and focuses on enterprise infrastructure companies. He leverages his infrastructure and IT experience in working with founders across the enterprise stack, from next-gen analytics platforms like Jut, to emerging cloud security and threat detection companies like Netskope and Vectra. Eric also co-leads the Accel Tech Council. Prior to Accel, Eric spent years in a variety of product and management roles at FastForward Networks, Inktomi and most recently, at Riverbed where he was president of the products group. There, he oversaw the growth of Riverbed’s flagship WAN optimization and app acceleration platforms, which grew to be a USD $1 billion+ business. Eric is from the Bay Area, graduated from Pepperdine and has an MBA from NYU.
12	Accel Partners	Rich Wong	General Partner	Rich Wong joined Accel in 2006 and focuses on software, internet services and mobile technologies. Rich led the investments and currently serves on the Boards of Atlassian (TEAM), Checkr, MoLabs, Neumob, Nextbit, Osmo, Qwilt, Sunrun (RUN), Tune and URX. Rich also led Accel's investments in Swiftkey and Rovio. Rich previously led Accel's investments and served on the Boards of MoPub (acquired by Twitter), Admob (acquired by Google), Airwatch (acquired by VMWare), Parature (acquired by Microsoft), Dealer.com (acquired by Dealertrak) and 3LM (acquired by Motorola). He was (is) the first outside Board member and lead investor in Atlassian, Checkr, MoPub, Neumob, Nextbit, Tune, URX and 3LM. He has been actively involved in the mobile and broadband ecosystems for more than a decade, having served as chief marketing officer of Covad Communications and senior vice president of products at Openwave Systems. Rich started his career at McKinsey & Co. and as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble. Rich grew up in Santa Rosa, California and has an Engineering degree and MBA from MIT.
13	Accelerator Ventures	Alexander Lloyd	Managing Director	Alexander Lloyd is the founder and managing partner of Accelerator Ventures, a venture fund focused on seed-stage investments. Prior to founding Accelerator Ventures, Alexander was a venture partner at Rustic Canyon Partners, where he oversaw the development of their seed-stage investment strategy. Before working in Venture Capital, Alexander was the Business Development Manager in Microsoft's Silicon Valley office responsible for Microsoft's relationships with the West Coast venture capital and startup community. Alexander has also worked as a Product Manager in SGI's workstation division and has held marketing positions at Activision and Apple Computer. Alexander began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent three years as a financial analyst. Born in New York City, Alexander was raised in Paris, France, and is fluent in French. Alexander earned a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School. Alexander is very involved in arts and education. He recently joined the board of SlideLuck and has previously sat on the boards of SF Camerawork and Junior Achievement of San Francisco, as well as the Contemporary Extension of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). In 1998 he founded the San Francisco Media Arts Council (SMAC) and for 3 years he served as a commissioner for the San Francisco Art Commission.
14	Accelerator Ventures	Ben Smith	Venture Partner	Ben Smith is a Venture Partner at Accelerator Ventures. Before joining Accelerator Ventures, Ben served as President of Reply Media which acquired MerchantCircle where he had been a cofounder and CEO. Ben cofounded MerchantCircle and incubated it at Rustic Canyon Partners while he was an Entrepreneur in Residence with Alex Lloyd. Prior to cofounding MerchantCircle, Ben was the SVP of Corporate Development at Borland through four acquisitions and drove the spinoff of their subsidiary, CodeGear, as their CEO through the separation and startup. Additionally, Ben co-founded the company Spoke and is still serving on its board. Ben also holds a seat on the board of Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU). He is a long time angel investor with over 40 early stage investments, often alongside of Accelerator, and is an LP at a number of venture funds. Ben previously served the White House as the Senior Advisor for Strategy and Planning to the Secretary of Transportation, assisting with the creation of the Transportation Security Administration after 9-11. Among his other accomplishments, Ben was a Vice President in Electronic Data System's A.T. Kearney management consulting subsidiary, leading the West Coast operations of the Kearney/EDS Venture Development Group, was one of the youngest partners in the history of the firm, and was named one of the 25 most influential strategy consultants in 2002.. As a Partner in the High Technology and Strategy Practices at A.T. Kearney, he advised leading technology companies on business, acquisition, investment and marketing strategies. Ben holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.
15	Accelerator Ventures	Tom Cervantez	Venture Partner	Tom Cervantez is a Venture Partner at Accelerator Ventures. Tom has worked with Accelerator Ventures since its formation and with Alex Lloyd on reviewing, analyzing and negotiating angel and venture investments since 1999. Tom brings a strong deal background to AVC from the legal perspective, having practiced law as a venture capital lawyer in Silicon Valley since 1992, as well as being a founder of a corporate/venture law boutique, Business Counsel Law Group, LLP – in San Francisco. On the investment side, Tom has been an active angel investor since the early 1990s, with early investments including Open Table (IPO), Friendster (acquired by MOL Global), Knowledgeweb (acquired by iVillage), Virtual Chips (acquired by Phoenix Techologies), Three Rings (acquired by Sega) and Geonet (acquired by Level 3 Networks). Tom also was the co-founder of the HBS Alumni Angels, the global angel alumni group for Harvard Business School. Tom is also on the Board of the HBS Alumni Association of Northern California and is Co-Chair of the Venture Capital SIG of the SV Forum. Tom speaks frequently on the topics of venture investment and deal structuring, and has done that at UC Berkeley, Stanford and Harvard. Tom holds a BA in Business Administration from Loyola Marymount University and a JD/MBA from Harvard.
16	Accelerator Ventures	John Paul Milciunas	Entrepreneur-in-residence	John Paul Milciunas is CEO of Enlight Research. Throughout his career he has played key roles in strategy and business development for both early stage startups and large technology corporations. He most recently was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accelerator Ventures. Prior to joining Accelerator Ventures, John Paul was at Yahoo! in Strategic Partnerships and Business Development at Yahoo!. While at Yahoo! he was part of the Strategy and Emerging Businesses team where he focused on creating innovative strategies for content distribution, audience development, and monetization. Before joining Yahoo!, John Paul worked as a product strategy consultant for Checkfree during the company’s merger and integration with Fiserv. John Paul has over 15 years experience working with technology companies. John Paul was CEO of SPI Dynamics, an Atlanta based web security start-up that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $90MM. John Paul also spent 3 years in Silicon Valley working for Scient as a business strategy consultant. He began his career at S1 and was part of the team that created the world’s first Internet bank, SFNB. John Paul is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
17	Acorn Ventures, Inc.	Cliff Girard	CEO	Mr. Girard has over 25 years experience as a CEO and President, Advisory Specialist and manager in the software, information technology/services, and computer supplier industries. In addition to gaining experience with numerous companies including Network Solutions Corporation, IBM, GMS and Acorn Ventures, Cliff was also the founder and CEO of 6 successful high-technology companies, and has led numerous corporate internet and e-commerce site implementations. He was also instrumental in successfully managing the turn-around restructuring operations for ICS, Inc., a company that, at the time, had suffered over 3 years of losses. Mr. Girard's passion for continuing success includes his strategic marketing and technical focuses, corporate positioning strategies, as well as the ability to execute large operational business plans. Cliff's strong technical and marketing skills in software engineering, as well as his skills in creating and strengthening a company's organizational purpose and goals, has helped companies achieve a highly motivated team of individuals who work at their highest capacities.
18	Acorn Ventures, Inc.	Charles Duff	Executive VP	Charles Duff has extensive experience with Electronic Commerce, projects and business models. He has performed due diligence on high technology companies for investment and business development since 1983. This included evaluating opportunities for investment by venture capital and private equity investors. Mr. Duff has excellent software skills and has managed total-solution Internet E-Commerce implementations from initial concept to successful conclusion tying together multiple vendor components In the early 1990's Mr. Duff ran a conference and exhibition company with a presence in 42 countries on five continents.
19	Adams Capital Management, Inc.	Joel Adams	General Partner	Joel founded Adams Capital Management in 1994 and raised $815 million of capital since inception. Before establishing ACM, Joel served for eight years as Vice President and General Partner of Fostin Capital Corp., a Pittsburgh-based, family-owned investment firm. Prior to Fostin, Joel served for seven years as a nuclear test engineer for General Dynamics, where he managed chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering teams and directed nuclear power plant sea trials. Joel is a member of several charitable organizations, a Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and a frequently requested speaker on the topic of venture capital.
20	Adams Capital Management, Inc.	Harris Jones	Operating Partner	Harris joined Adams Capital Management in 2014 as an Operating Partner. He was previously the Managing Director of Swallow Point Ventures, a Pittsburgh-based technology growth investor that invested in capital efficient digital technology businesses. Harris has held several senior management positions in the telecommunications industry both in the U.S. and UK, most recently as the CEO of Cable & Wireless International (CW) operating from London, UK. CW was the second largest fixed line telecom operator in the UK, and operated the incumbent telecommunications company in 33 countries across five continents. Prior to that role, he was CEO of T-Mobile in the UK where he led the turnaround of that business by doubling revenue to nearly $6 billion in three years. In the late 1990’s, Harris was part of the senior management team of Omnipoint Communications, a pioneering GSM-based wireless operator operating primarily in the Northeast U.S. He was part of the original management team of American Personal Communications, a wireless start-up that launched the first digital wireless service in the U.S. and became the bellwether for Sprint’s mobile business. Harris has held board roles with Cable & Wireless PLC, Virgin Mobile, Monaco Telecom, Cable & Wireless Barbados, and mBlox over the past 15 years.
21	Adams Capital Management, Inc.	George Ugras	Venture Partner	George joined Adams Capital Management in 1999 as a General Partner, from Apax Partners, a private equity firm in New York. Prior to joining Apax Partners, George was a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York, working closely with clients in the telecommunications and media industries, on strategic and operational issues for media and technology clients. He is a director of several private companies.
22	Advanced Technology Ventures	Steve Baloff	General Partner	Steve joined ATV in 1996 and focuses on investments in the software, infrastructure and internet services markets in the firm's Palo Alto, CA office. He is an active board member of EndPlay, Cenzic, Cedexis, Host Analytics, Modria, QuickPay, and WildTangent. Prior investments include Qumu (acquired by Rimage), Tripwire (acquired by Thoma Bravo), UpShot (acquired by Siebel Systems), Striva (acquired by Informatica NASDAQ: INFA), ViryaNet (NASDAQ: VRYA), Velogic (acquired by Keynote NASDAQ: KEYN), Seeker Software (acquired by Concur NASDAQ: CNQR), Epigram (acquired by Broadcom NASDAQ: BRCM), and Omneon Video Networks (acquired by Harmonic NASDAQ: HLIT). Steve has over 20 years of entrepreneurial, operating and venture experience. He founded and served as CEO of Worldview Systems, a successful venture-backed startup. Through a joint venture with Sabre Interactive, Worldview Systems created and launched Travelocity.com, the award-winning travel site. Steve also held executive positions in sales, marketing and general management with Covalent Systems, a venture-backed computer systems vendor focused on the graphic arts industry. His career originated in Booz, Allen & Hamilton’s San Francisco and London offices, where he focused on strategy engagements for a variety of technology companies in the U.S. and Europe. Steve holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Harvard College.
23	Advanced Technology Ventures	Ed Frank	Technology Partner	Ed focuses on technology investments at ATV. Previously he was Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Epigram, Inc., an ATV portfolio company, which was acquired by Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) in 1999. At Broadcom he was Vice President of research and development and an elected corporate officer. Among other accomplishments, he was responsible for establishing Broadcom as the world’s leading WiFi semiconductor vendor. Prior to Broadcom Ed was co-founder and vice president of research and development at NetPower, Inc. As a Sun Microsystems’s Distinguished Engineer, Ed co-founded and served as director of engineering for the "Green Project," which originated and developed what became Java. Ed also worked as manager of advanced development at Austek Pty. Ltd., and as a technical consultant for Sutherland, Sproull and Associates. He is a member of the IEEE, a Hertz Foundation Fellow, and is a named inventor on more than 40 US patents. He serves on the board of directors of Onstor Inc, and Wavesat, Inc. Ed holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University where he now serves as a life trustee and is a member of the trustee’s executive committee. He holds a M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
24	Advanced Technology Ventures	Robert Finocchio	Venture Partner	As a Venture Partner with ATV, Bob focuses on investments in the software and internet infrastructure markets in the firm's Palo Alto, CA office. He currently serves on the boards of Anagran and CaseCentral. Bob also serves as a dean’s Executive Professor at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business. Additionally, he serves on the boards of Altera Corporation, Echelon Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and Santa Clara University. Bob brings over 20 years of operating experience in the software, internet and infrastructure markets to ATV. He served as President and CEO of Informix Corporation, an information management software company acquired by IBM, where he also served as Chairman of the Board. Prior to Informix, Bob held various executive management positions at 3Com and the ROLM Corporation. Bob holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. from Santa Clara University.
25	Advanced Technology Ventures	Bob Hower	General Partner	Bob is ATV's East Coast lead partner for investments in information technology and is primarily focused on the internet, digital media and software sectors. He has been with ATV since 2002 and is an active board member of Acme Packet (NASDAQ:APKT), Actifio, Apptegic, ChannelAdvisor (NYSE: ECOM), and [x+1]. Named to Forbes’ Midas list for two consecutive years, Bob was instrumental in Acme Packet's public offering, one of the most successful IPOs in the communications sector of the decade. Bob has extensive operating experience, including serving as Vice President of sales at LHS Group (EMEA), where he built the company's Enhanced Services Division for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He was also a member of the senior management team at Priority Call Management (PCM). Prior to LHS Group’s acquisition of PCM in 1999, Bob helped grow PCM's revenue from approximately $3.5 million to $45 million. Bob’s management background also includes sales and marketing roles at Lotus Development and General Mills. Bob first joined the venture capital community as a Director at BancBoston Ventures where he focused on the telecommunications and IT infrastructure sector. Early in his career, Bob worked in commercial real estate development at Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, negotiating lease transactions in excess of $100 million. He earned an M.B.A. from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a B.A., Cum Laude, from Harvard College.
26	Advanced Technology Ventures	Bill Wiberg	General Partner	Bill is ATV’s lead partner for investments in the cleantech sector. He is an active board member of Aquion, GreatPoint Energy, Coskata, Oasys Water, Rive Technology, and Silicor Materials. Bill joined ATV in 2003, bringing with him extensive operational and venture capital experience, including 19 years with Lucent Technologies. He was President of Lucent’s Cellular and PCS Wireless Networks division from 1997 to 2000, a $5 billion business in 2000. Additionally, Bill served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA). Subsequent to Lucent, Bill was a General Partner at Orange Ventures, a wireless-focused fund backed by Orange, one of the largest mobile service providers in the world. He also served as a General Partner with Bowman Capital’s Private Equity Group. Bill earned an M.B.A. from Columbia University, an M.S. from Stanford University, and a B.S. from Cornell University.
27	Allegis Capital	Bob Ackerman	Founder	Bob founded Allegis Capital in 1996 after a successful career as a serial entrepreneur. In founding Allegis, Bob’s mission was to build a seed and early-stage venture firm that would combine operational experience with an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on forging true partnerships with portfolio companies to build successful and sustainable cybertechnology companies. Bob has been recognized as a Fortune 100 cybersecurity executive and also as one of “CyberSecurity’s Money Men”. As an entrepreneur, Bob was the President and CEO of UniSoft Systems, a global leading UNIX Systems House and the Founder and Chairman of InfoGear Technology Corporation, a pioneer in the original integration of web and telephony technology and creator of the original iPhone. Outside of Allegis, Bob teaches New Venture Finance in the MBA program at the University of California, co-manages his family’s small Napa Valley winery – Ackerman Family Vineyards, and enjoys fly fishing.
28	Allegis Capital	Spencer Tall	Managing Director	Spencer joined Allegis Capital in 2004 as a Managing Director. His focus has been security and enterprise SaaS related technologies. Spencer is an experienced seed and early stage investor, who assists young companies and their founders in recruiting and strategic relationships. Prior to Allegis, he was co-founder of APV Technology Ventures, an early stage technology fund. He was also co-owner of Asia Pacific Ventures, a business advisory and consulting firm that focused on strategic relationships throughout Asia. During his tenure at APV, he worked with more than 50 companies in the USA, and consulted for large enterprises including Canon, Fujitsu, NEC, Sega, and Sony. When not working with his portfolio, Spencer enjoys snow skiing, fly fishing, running, and basketball.
29	Allegis Capital	Pete Bodine	Managing Director	Pete joined Allegis Capital in 2006 as a Managing Director. His focus is on cloud-centric technologies, mobile, big data analytics and IoT opportunities. Pete’s focuses on growing his early stage technology companies, and using the Allegis Capital network to help leverage marketing channels and accelerate revenues for the portfolio. Pete also has broad experience helping start-up and established companies develop business plans, recruiting senior personnel, and procuring and structuring equity funding via strategic alliances with corporate partners. Pete was a member of the Forbes Midas list in 2006 and 2007. Prior to Allegis he was a co-founder of APV Technology Partners a seed and early stage IT focused fund. Pete also worked at Asia Pacific Ventures, a consulting and technology advisory firm. While at Asia Pacific Ventures, he advised large Asian companies including Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, and NTT. When Pete is not investing in start ups he enjoys CrossFit, fly fishing and attending his kids sporting events.
30	Allegis Capital	Steve Simonian	CFO	As Allegis Capital’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, Steve Simonian’s responsibilities include finance, legal, investor relations, administration and compliance. Mr. Simonian joined Allegis in 2015 from his own consulting practice, where he provided finance and operational services for VC, PE and operating companies. Prior to his consulting practice, he served as Chief Financial Officer at August Capital. Mr. Simonian previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Gabriel Venture Partners and Meritech Capital Partners. Mr. Simonian received a BA in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. A Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Simonian serves on the board of directors of the Private Equity CFO Association, and is a member of the National Venture Capital Association CFO Task Force and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
31	Alloy Ventures	Ammar Hanafi	General Partner	Ammar H. Hanafi joined Alloy Ventures as a general partner in 2005. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in cloud computing infrastructure and services. Operating experience Ammar previously served as Vice President of New Business Ventures at Cisco Systems and Vice President of Corporate Business Development prior to that, where he was responsible for Cisco's acquisitions, acquisition integration, investment, and joint venture activity on a global basis. He joined Cisco in 1997 as a member of the Corporate Business Development Group. During his tenure at Cisco, he helped the company complete over 100 investment and M&A transactions, including 50 acquisitions and over $750 million in venture capital investments. Ammar received a BS in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University (1988) and an MBA from Stanford University (1995). Current board seats Ammar serves on the board of directors of Hightail, Mavenir Systems (NASDAQ: MVNR), Cortina Systems, GigaOM and Agari. He also serves on the board of directors of American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley (ALF), a non-profit organization.
32	Alloy Ventures	Michael Hunkapiller	General Partner	Michael Hunkapiller joined Alloy in 2004 after 30-year career in bioscience research and executive management in the life science industry. He focuses on investments in life science research tools and instrumentation, as well as clinical diagnostics. Operating experience A renowned scientist, entrepreneur and life science industry executive, Mike brings a unique mix of experience to Alloy. He spent 21 years at Applied Biosystems (NASDAQ: LIFE), which he co-founded and helped grow from startup to almost $2 billion in annual revenues supplying instrument and reagent systems for life science research. At ABI, he held several positions, most recently president and general manager. He was also a founder of ABI's sister company Celera Genomics (NASDAQ: CRA) and senior vice president of Applera Corp. (their parent company). Prior to joining ABI, Mike was a senior research fellow in the Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology. He has authored more than 100 scientific publications, is an inventor on more than two dozen patents and has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. He has received several awards for his contributions to life science research, especially for his invention of the automated Gene and Protein Sequencer used to sequence the human genome. He was elected in 2008 to the National Academy of Engineering for his life-long dedication to the human genome mapping project and the field of comparative genetics. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from Oklahoma Baptist University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech in 1974. Current board seats Mike serves on the board of directors of Pacific Biosciences (NASDAQ: PACB), NuGEN and RainDance Technologies. Past Board Seats Mike served on the board of Fluidigm which completed its IPO in February, 2011 (NASDAQ: FLDM), and Verinata Health which was acquired in January 2013 by Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN).
33	Alloy Ventures	Doug Kelly	General Partner	Doug Kelly has worked with the partners of Alloy Ventures since 1993 and was a founding member of the firm. He currently focuses on investments in medical device companies. Operating experience Trained as a physician, Doug is a long-time venture investor with 20 years of experience in bridging the needs of the business and medical communities with novel applications of technology to create world-class companies. Prior to joining Alloy Ventures, he worked for two European venture capital firms, in business development at Ligand Pharmaceuticals, and as an independent consultant. Additionally, Doug teaches "Business 16 Financing The Startup" at Stanford Univeristy. Doug received a BA in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from the University of California at San Diego (1983), an MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1988, and an MBA from Stanford University (1990). Current board seats Doug serves on the board of directors of Aegea, CoAlign Innovations, and Restoration Robotics. Past Board Seats Doug has invested in many leading medical device and biotech companies, and previously served on the boards of Sapient Health Network (acquired by WebMD/Healtheon in 1999), Camitro (acquired by Arqule in 2001), Fusion Medical (acquired by Baxter in 2002), Integrated Biosystems (acquired by Stedim SA in 2004), Adiana (acquired by Cytyc/Hologic in 2007), Pharsight (acquired by Tripos in 2008), Barrx Medical (acquired by Covidien in January 2012), Cameron Health (acquired by Boston Scientific in June 2012), Crux Biomedical (acquired by Volcano Corp. in December 2012),
34	Alloy Ventures	Daniel Rubin	General Partner	Daniel I. Rubin joined Alloy Ventures in 1999 after a 15-year career in business development, marketing and sales at leading technology companies. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in semiconductors, cleantech, and software-as-a-service. Operating experience Before becoming a venture capitalist in 1999, Dan was a successful technology entrepreneur and also held a variety of executive-level sales, marketing and business development jobs in the IT industry. In 1991, he was a co-founder of Artisan Components and served as the initial VP of sales and marketing. He was the VP of business development through the companyÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â’s initial public offering in 1998. The company was later acquired by ARM Ltd. for $1 billion. Prior to Artisan Components, Dan worked at semiconductor capital equipment company Ultratech Stepper in many roles, including director of product marketing and managing director of Asian operations. He received a BA in Physics from Pomona College (1982). Current board seats Dan serves on the board of directors of Ensenda, Molecular Imprints, Gradient Design Automation, Scifiniti, and Teradici. Past Board Seats Dan previously served on the board of directors for Ciranova (acquired by Synopsys in 2012), Integrated Materials (acquired by Ferrotec in 2010) and as a board observer at Ellie Mae, which completed its IPO in April, 2011 (NASDAQ: ELLI).
35	Alloy Ventures	John Shoch	General Partner	John F. Shoch, PhD, became a venture capitalist in 1985, first working with Craig Taylor to manage venture investments at Asset Management Associates, and then co-founding Alloy Ventures in 1996. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in enterprise software, communications infrastructure, semiconductors and all aspects of the Internet. Operating experience Before becoming a venture capitalist, John worked as a computer scientist, technology executive and inventor. He gained deep hands-on, operational experience at Xerox, which he joined in 1971. For many years, he worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he helped develop the Ethernet, a local area network system. In 1980, he became the assistant to the CEO of Xerox. In 1982, John became President of the Office Systems Division, developing networked office systems derived from Xerox PARC research. John received a BA (1971) in Political Science, an MS (1977), and a PhD (1979) in Computer Science, all from Stanford. Past Board Seats John was previously a director of semiconductor firm Conductus, which was acquired by Superconductor Technologies Inc. in 2002; and Remedy, a leading enterprise software company that completed a successful IPO on NASDAQ in 1995 and was later acquired by Peregrine Systems. John also served on the board of Polimetrix (acquired by YouGov in 2007) and MontaVista (acquired by Cavium Networks in 2009) and Knowledge Networks (acquired by GfK in 2012).
36	Alloy Ventures	Craig Taylor	General Partner	Craig C. Taylor has been an active venture capitalist since 1977, and co-founded Alloy Ventures with John Shoch in 1996. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in laboratory instrumentation, diagnostics and cleantech, especially green-focused companies that sit at the intersection of biotech, nanotech and IT. Operating experience Craig is a veteran venture capital investor with a focus on technology transfer from leading research institutions. Before co-founding Alloy Ventures, he worked at Asset Management Co., which he joined in 1977. Previously, Craig worked in the Office of Technology Licensing at Stanford University from 1975 to 1977. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association, and serves on the Board of Advisors of the MIT/Stanford Venture Laboratory. He earned a BS (1972) and an MS (1974) in physics from Brown University, and an MBA from Stanford (1977). Current board seats Craig serves on the board of directors of Labcyte, Zyomyx, and KFx Medical. Past board seats Craig has led successful investments in, and served on the boards of, dozens of leading life science companies. He was a founding board member of Applied Biosystems, the pioneering biotechnology company founded in 1981 that was later became a division of Applera and was recently sold for $6.7 billion to Invitrogen Corp. He was also a founding board member of Adeza Biomedical, a woman's health company that completed a public offering on Nasdaq in 2004 and was later acquired by Cytec. He also served on the board of Lynx Therapeutics, a provider of genetic analysis tools for biological research that completed an IPO on Nasdaq in 2000, and later merged with Solexa Ltd., before it was acquired by Illumina for $600 million 2006. Craig also served on the board of ForteBio which was acquired by Pall Corporation in 2012 and on Optimedica which was acquired by Abbott in August 2013.
37	Alsop Louie Partners	Gilman Louie	Partner	Gilman Louie is a Partner. He is the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. intelligence community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies. Previously Gilman built a career as a pioneer in the interactive entertainment industry, with accomplishments that include the design and development of the Falcon F-16 flight simulator as well as being the person who licensed Tetris, the world’s most popular computer game, from its developers in the Soviet Union. During that career, Gilman founded and ran a publicly traded company called Spectrum HoloByte which ultimately was acquired by Hasbro Corporation, where he served as chief creative officer of Hasbro Interactive and general manager of the Games.com group before founding In-Q-Tel. Gilman has served on a number of boards of directors, including Wizards of the Coast, Netwitness, Ribbit, Zephyr Technologies, the National Venture Capital Association, the CIA Officers Memorial Fund and currently chairs the Mandarin Institute and the Federation of American Scientists. He serves as a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Group for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, chairs the committee on Persistent Forecasting of Disruptive Technologies for the National Academies, and was recently appointed as member of the National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community. In 2006, Gilman was presented with the Directors Award by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for his service in creating In-Q-Tel and providing service to the intelligence community. In 2002, he was listed as one of fifty scientific visionaries by Scientific American. Gilman completed the Advanced Management program/International Seniors Management Program at Harvard Business School and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from San Francisco State University.
38	Alsop Louie Partners	Stewart Alsop	Partner	Stewart is a Partner. He spent the first 20 years of his professional career as a business journalist and commentator. It did not start well: he earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1975, but had to stay the summer to complete his credits. Then he couldn’t find a job, so he went to bartending school. But bars weren’t hiring. He persisted and, from 1975 to 1996, had a series of jobs in which he learned how to be a business editor, including Executive Editor of Inc. Magazine, where he became fascinated by both entrepreneurship and personal computers and as the third editor of InfoWorld, the job that got him moved from Boston to Silicon Valley in 1983. In 1985, having been fired from two jobs, he started his own business, a newsletter called P.C. Letter, which became widely read in the executive ranks of the major hardware and software companies that formed and grew the personal computer industry. He also started two conferences, Agenda and Demo and published the “Social Register to the PC Industry”. In 1996, Stewart changed careers to become a venture capitalist, joining New Enterprise Associates, a top-tier venture capital firm with a long track record of success in investing in early stage and growth companies. He was a general partner with New Enterprise Associates and led that firm’s investments in companies such as TiVo, Portola Communications (sold to Netscape), Netcentives, Glu Mobile, and Xfire. From 1996 to 2003, he wrote Alsop On InfoTech for Fortune. Stewart left NEA in 2005 and invited Gilman Louie to become his partner in a new venture capital firm designed to put to use everything the partners had learned about entrepreneurship, technology and innovation over the prior 25 years. From 2005-2013, Stewart was a member of the board of directors of Sonos Inc., which has become a thought leader in the world of digital audio and the digital living room.
39	Alsop Louie Partners	Bill Crowell	Partner	William P. Crowell is a Partner. He is also an Independent Consultant specializing in Information Technology, Security and Intelligence Systems. He is a director at SafeNet, Inc., encryption, data protection and authentication solutions, which is in the process of being acquired by Gemalto. He is also a director at DeviceAuthority, device authentication; SAP NS2, a subsidiary of SAP; and Toopher, multifactor authentication. He is Chairman of the Board of Centripetal, a startup in the rule-based packet gateway and filter area. Until its acquisition by Cisco in June 2007, he was Chairman of Broadware Technologies, a video surveillance software company. He was also a director at ArcSight, Inc. (ARST), which was acquired by HP in October 2010; Narus, Inc. which was acquired by Boeing in July 2010; Six3 Systems which was acquired by CACI in November 2013, Air Patrol, wireless network security company acquired by Sysorex in May 2014, and Fixmo, Inc., a mobile device security company acquired by Good Technologies in June 2014. Crowell served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Santa Clara, California-based Cylink Corporation, a public company and leading provider of e-business security solutions from November 1998 to February 2003, when Cylink was acquired by SafeNet, Inc. Crowell came to Cylink from the National Security Agency, where he held a series of senior positions in operations, analysis, strategic planning, research and development, and finance. He served as Deputy Director of Operations from 1991 to 1994 running its core signals intelligence mission. In February 1994 he was appointed by President Clinton as the Deputy Director of NSA and served in that post until his retirement in September 1997. From 1989 to 1990, Crowell served as a vice president at Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation, later acquired by Titan Corp, leading business development in space technology, signal processing and intelligence systems. In April 1999, Crowell was appointed to the President’s Export Council (PEC), which advised the administration on trade and export policy. After 9/11, he served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, which published three landmark studies on Homeland Security and information sharing. He has also served on numerous panels to investigate and improve military command and control, intelligence and security systems and served as Chairman of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group from 2007 – 2014. Crowell is an expert on network and information security issues. In December 2008 Security Magazine selected him as one of the 25 most influential people in the security industry. In May 2007 he co-authored the book, “Physical and Logical Security Convergence,” published by Elsevier. He has been quoted in many trade and business publications including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, USA Today, Information Week, Network World, Computer World, Federal Computer Week, CIO Magazine and the San Jose Mercury News. Crowell has also appeared on CBS MarketWatch, CNET News, CNBC, and The Charlie Rose Show. He was the technical advisor to the TV series, “Threat Matrix” during its run on ABC in the 2003 season.
40	Alsop Louie Partners	Jim Whims	Partner	Jim Whims is a Partner. For the last decade, Jim was a partner at Techfund Capital in the U.S. and Europe, where he invested in companies like 3DFX and Portal Player. Jim was a co-founder of Worlds of Wonder and was a key executive at Software Toolworks and Sony Computer Entertainment. In 1996, Adweek/Brandweek recognized him as the Marketing Executive of the Year for driving revenues from zero to $1B in one year at Sony, where Jim managed the launch of the Playstation in North America. Jim also serves on the Board of Directors at THQ and Synaptics. He received his MBA in Finance from the University of Arizona and a BS from Northwestern University.
41	Alsop Louie Partners	Joel Addiego	Partner	Joe Addiego is a Partner. Prior to joining Alsop Louie Partners, Joe was an investment partner at In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture arm of the U.S. intelligence community. While there, Joe lead investments in LensVector, Pixim, ThinKom, and LanguageWeaver, among others. Prior to that, Joe was the Executive VP of Marketing and Sales for Talarian through its IPO in August, 2000. Joe was the CEO of TakeFive Software, a Salzburg Austria-based development tools company. He also spent 14 years growing Integrated Systems Inc., and later Wind River Systems, from a start-up to a $400 million NASDAQ traded company where he held a variety of positions including VP of Marketing and Sales and VP of International Operations. Joe spent his early career at Hewlett-Packard and AT&T in sales and sales management roles.
42	Alsop Louie Partners	Nancy Lee	Partner	Nancy Lee is our Chief Financial Officer and a Partner. She is a veteran bean counter for venture capital firms, having spent 20 years with Walden International, a firm with a long and distinguished history and multiple funds in North America and Asia. Her job is to keep Gilman and Stewart out of trouble and help our investors make the most of their investment.
43	Alsop Louie Partners	Joel Alsop	Venture Partner	Joseph Alsop is a Venture Partner. He was the founder and until 2009 the CEO of Progress Software Inc., a public company (PRGS) selling application infrastructure technology, including application development tools and the world’s leading imbedded database. He graduated from MIT in 1967 with a BSEE degree. He is investing in and working with companies in Massachusetts applying information technology in various areas.
44	Alsop Louie Partners	Bill Coleman	Venture Partner	Bill Coleman is a Venture Partner. Previously Bill was Founder, Chairman and CEO of Cassatt, Inc. an enterprise cloud software company which was acquired by CA, Inc. in 2009. In 1995, he founded BEA Systems, Inc. for which he developed the vision and business plan, recruited the other two other principals, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang and raised the Series A funding from Warburg Pincus (the only funding round required until the IPO in 1997). Bill was Chairman and CEO of the company from its founding through September 2001 during which BEA became the fastest software company ever to reach a billion dollars in annual revenue, a record that still stands today. Prior to BEA, Bill held various management positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc., including: co-founder of Sun Federal; founder, vice president and general manager of Sun Professional Services; and vice president of system software overseeing SunOS, the initial development of Solaris and related system administration, networking and management products. Before his work at Sun, Coleman co-founded and was vice president of engineering at Dest Systems. Prior to that, he was the director of product development at VisiCorp where he oversaw publishing of the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc; development of the first office suite of personal computer productivity applications, the “Visi Series”; and development of the first personal computer window system, VisiOn. As general manager of the high frequency systems group at GTE Sylvania he grew his systems business from $12m to $36M in less than three years. Coleman began his career in the U.S. Air Force as chief of satellite operations in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force supporting the National Reconnaissance Organization. Coleman has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and master’s degrees in computer science and computer engineering from Stanford University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado. Mr. Coleman is the founder and president of the Coleman Colorado Foundation which founded and supports the University of Colorado Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities. He is a member of the board of directors of Framehawk, iControl, Seagate, Resilient Network Systems and Business Executives for National Security and a Trustee of the University of Santa Clara. He was a member of the Board of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group from 1999 to 2009, and Chairman from 2004 – 2006 and has served on the boards of the following public companies: BEA Systems, Palm Inc, Symantec, Skillsoft Inc and Portal Software Inc as well as numerous private companies. Both Ernst & Young and the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado named Mr. Coleman their 2001 “Entrepreneur of the Year,” and Business Week named him one of 2001’s ebiz 25 top executives.
45	Alsop Louie Partners	Ernestine Fu	Venture Partner	Ernestine Fu is a Venture Partner. She joined Alsop Louie Partners in March 2011 and then led her first investment within two months. She currently leads the investment thesis in 3D printing. Companies she is involved with include: Jetlore, Keyssa, MXD3D, New Matter, Wickr, WiFiSLAM, and others. She also oversees the campus associate outreach program. Ernestine’s publications include: Civic Work, Civic Lessons (a book on public service with Stanford professor Thomas Ehrlich), The State Clean Energy Cookbook (a report with former U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, Secretary George Shultz, etc), and others. She also blogs for Forbes. Ernestine holds a BS and MS from Stanford University and is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program. At Stanford, she was recognized for the top honors thesis in engineering and multiple honor societies. She currently teaches two courses: one on entrepreneurship and venture capital, and another on circular economy.
46	Alsop Louie Partners	Tom Kalinske	Venture Partner	Tom Kalinske is a Venture Partner. He is currently Chairman of Global Education Learning, a start-up dedicated to helping young children in China learn various subjects. Tom also serves on the board of Cambium Learning Group (NASDAQ-ABCD) and is Vice Chairman of LeapFrog Inc, of which he was previously CEO and/or Chairman at different times starting in 1997, helping LeapFrog grow from a start-up specialty toy company to the largest educational toy company in the world. Tom joined Knowledge Universe (KU) at its founding in 1996 as its President and on its Board of Directors. From 1990 to 1996, Tom was president and CEO of Sega of America, Inc. From 1987 to 1990, Tom was President and CEO of Universal Matchbox Group. Previously, Tom was President and Co-CEO of Mattel, where he worked on Barbie & Hot Wheels in addition to other business lines. Tom also serves on the board of Genyous Omnitura a cancer drug development company, The Mandarin Institute, and the National Board of Advisors of the University of Arizona School of Business. Tom is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. He earned an MBA from the University of Arizona, and attended the Harvard Business School’s Strategic Management Program. He is married with six children.
47	Alsop Louie Partners	Stephen Mendel	Venture Partner	Stephen Mendel is a Venture Partner. He has served in a wide variety of leadership roles in public and private technology based organizations – managing director and executive vice president of In-Q-Tel in charge of its venture capital activities, vice chairman of Knowledge Revolution (acquired by MSC Software), CEO and president of Ithaca Software (acquired by Autodesk NASDAQ:ADSK), executive vice president of Maxwell Communication Corporation (MCC), executive vice president of Spectrum-Holobyte (NASDAQ: MPRS, then acquired by Hasbro) and executive vice president of MDL (acquired by MCC, then NASDAQ: MDLI, then acquired by Symyx Technologies). He has also served as a member of the board of directors of AXS, Ithaca Software, Spectrum-Holobyte, MDL, Simmedia, Verso, Futurize Now, Knowledge Revolution, Direct Language, Site Technologies, DuckDuckGo, Motive Medical Intelligence, 2lemetry, and BeBop Sensors. Stephen’s management style and business acumen have been recognized both regionally and nationally. Under his leadership, Ithaca Software was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America. Stephen’s hands-on approach to mentoring young management teams has generated an enviable track record of successful investments. He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences on topics ranging from entrepreneurship to exit strategies. Stephen began his career as an attorney at Feldman Waldman and Kline, where he represented clients in corporate, securities, intellectual property and commercial matters. He received his Juris Doctor with highest honors from Hofstra University and his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Rochester.
48	Alsop Louie Partners	Jim Ward	Venture Partner	Jim Ward is a Venture Partner. He is on the board of directors of Gowalla, an Alsop Louie Partners portfolio company. Jim is the former president of LucasArts, the videogame division of LucasFilm Ltd, where he was also the senior vice president of marketing, distribution and online. Before he joined LucasFilm in 1997, he spent his career in advertising where he worked closely with Apple Computer, Microsoft and then Nike over a period of 15 years.
49	Alsop Louie Partners	Will Jack	Associate	Will Jack is an associate at MIT, where he is a candidate for a bachelors degree in Physics and EECS. He grew up in suburban Ohio where most of his days were spent tinkering in his basement workshop. In 8th grade, he combined his love for building things with his interest in high energy physics and began building a particle collider capable of carrying out nuclear fusion reactions between hydrogen nuclei. Will completed this collider in 10th grade, presenting his work at two international science fairs, and in a keynote speech at the EHSM conference in Berlin. Will continued his trek into plasma physics research by working as a researcher on the Lithium Tokamak Experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab the summer before coming to MIT. At MIT, Will developed his already present passion for entrepreneurship and innovation through starting the MIT Innovation Committee, an organization devoted to uniting resources for innovation across campus and making them accessible to undergraduates. He worked to create and organize MakeMIT, MIT’s first and largest hardware hackathon, and has also worked on developing intelligent medical equipment at the MIT Media Lab.
50	Alsop Louie Partners	David Mace	Associate	David Mace is an associate at Caltech, where he is a candidate for a bachelors degree in Computer Science. At 17 years old, David published a novel machine learning technique to classify gesture interface motions in a major computer science journal (ACM IUI) as one of its youngest ever authors. At 18, he sold a war prediction algorithm to USAID. At 19, he was offered the Thiel Fellowship to drop out of Caltech and pursue real-world prediction algorithms full-time, but decided to return to Caltech. He has been the youngest member of IBM Watson’s core research team developing natural language processing algorithms for text understanding and the youngest member of Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning Group leveraging text understanding to improve Facebook’s ad-targeting models. He spends most of his time trying to convince people that in a century, war will not exist because algorithms will allow us to forecast population-level effects of our political actions. He has spoken on the topic at TEDx Teen, Young President’s Organization LA, and SXSW (accepted March 2016). He has also delivered a joint Q&A with Ray Kurzweil on the future of AI at SAP Global CEO Summit. As a freshman at Caltech, he co-founded Hacktech, the first large-scale college hackathon on the West Coast, which raised a quarter million dollars and was attended by over 1200 students. David has also worked at NASA JPL building a Mars telemetry data analysis tool used daily by JPL scientists to detect early indications of critical malfunctions in the Mars rover, at Mousera making automated feature detection systems for lab mice in pharmaceutical drug testing centers, and at Zekira building systems for near real-time search and display of massive amounts of diverse user data. Before joining Alsop Louie, David held a similar role for Lightspeed Venture Partners. David is an avid traveller and has solo backpacked around five continents since entering college two years ago. He also once starred in a pilot for a TBS reality TV show about pranking people with science, but quickly realized that he should stick to technology rather than acting.
51	Altos Ventures	Han Kim	Managing Director	Han Kim is a Managing Director and co-founder of Altos Ventures, focusing on investments in the areas of mobile and software services. He also concentrates on companies with significant business in Asia, leveraging the firm’s substantial contacts in the region, particularly in Korea. Han currently serves on the boards of numerous Korea based private companies. Before co-founding Altos Ventures in 1996, Han worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton solving strategic and operational issues for global media, retail and distribution companies. Previously, he was at Procter & Gamble. Han also served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Han served two years in Korea, commanding both U.S. and Korean soldiers. Han received an MBA from Stanford University and a BS from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Current Investments ADOP Beatpacking Bluehole Bookjam Brideasmart Coupang Hyperconnect I-UM JobPlanet LendIt Pandora.TV Retrica Viva Republica VonVon Woowa Brothers Past Companies BCNX: Acquired by Yello Mobile CalmSea: Acquired by Coupang DemandTec: IPO (DMAN), now part of IBM Digital Market: Acquired by Agile Software (AGIL), now part of Oracle (ORCL) Evant: Acquired by Manhattan Associates (MANH) Green Car: Acquired by Lotte Group Instill: Merged with iTrade Networks Nable Communication: IPO (KOSDAQ15340) Provade: Acquired Pinnacle SeeControl: Acquired by Autodesk (ADSK)
52	Altos Ventures	Anthony Lee	Managing Director	Anthony Lee is a Managing Director of Altos Ventures, where he focuses on software and digital media investments. Before joining Altos, Anthony led marketing efforts for three start-up companies including Evolve Software (Nasdaq:EVLV, later acquired by Oracle). Anthony began his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company and has published a national magazine. Anthony serves as Chairman of TechSoup, the world’s largest non-profit distributor of computer software and hardware. He co-founded and co-chairs the C100, a network of top Canadian technology leaders dedicated to supporting Canadian entrepreneurs. Anthony is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and served as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a founding member of the Full Circle Fund, a venture philanthropy group based in San Francisco. Anthony received his MBA from Stanford University and earned a BA in Politics and Economics from Princeton University. Current Investments Allocadia Bench Accounting BrightEdge Demandbase Joya Communication OneUp Outbound Engine Netbase Solutions Piqora ROBLOX Testlio Upsight Xignite Past Companies CrownPeak: Acquired by K1 Capital Evolve Software: IPO (EVLV), now part of Oracle (ORCL) GuardianEdge: Acquired by Symantec (SYMC)
53	Altos Ventures	Hodong Nam	Managing Director	Ho Nam is a Managing Director of Altos Ventures, focusing on investments in the areas of software, mobile, and internet technologies. Ho began his VC career at Trinity Ventures and began his professional career at Bain & Company where he advised clients in technology, media and consumer products industries. Before co-founding Altos Ventures, Ho worked at Silicon Graphics and Octel Communications. Ho received an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. Current Investments DigitalPath HireMojo Lohika PandaDoc Quizlet Trilibis Mobile TVU Networks Vesta WhiteHat Security Past Companies Axis Systems: Acquired by Verisity (VRST), now part of Cadence (CDNS) Enwisen: Acquired by Lawson Software (LWSN), now part of Infor Evolve Software: IPO (EVLV), now part of Oracle (ORCL) Immunet: Acquired by Sourcefire (FIRE), now part of Cisco (CSCO) Listen.com: Acquired by Real Networks (REAL) Nishan Systems: Acquired by McData (MCDT), now part of Brocade (BRCD) OtherInbox: Acquired by ReturnPath Pixo : Acquired by Sun Microsystems, now part of Oracle (ORCL) Provato: Acquired by iMany (IMNY), now Revitas SayNow: Acquired by Google (GOOG) Soundpipe: Acquired by Comdial (CMDZ) Yosemite Technologies: Acquired by Barracuda Networks (CUDA)
54	Altos Ventures	Hee-Eun Park	Principal	Hee-Eun Park (“Baki”) focuses on mobile and software investments in Korea. Before joining Altos Ventures, she was a co-founder and CEO of IUM, an Altos-funded company in Korea. She took the company from a business plan to the largest mobile dating service in Korea, serving over one million subscribers. Hee-Eun began her career as a Strategy Manager at NCsoft. She received a BS in Communications from the Seoul National University. Current Investments April Funizen Memebox MyRealTrip Origin Games Spicus Trillionaire Zigbang Zigzag
55	Amberstone Ventures	Nicholas	Mindel	Honey Mama's. Junshine. Naadam, Nutpods. One of the premiere VC's in CPG and Food and Beverage.
56	Amicus Capital	Bob Zipp	Co-Founder	Bob co-founded Amicus in 1998 with Jim Brock. Bob has focused on seed stage investing for the past decade, and has been working with seed stage companies for 20 years. Bob invests in an eclectic mix of information technology companies, from enterprise application and infrastructure companies, to consumer oriented internet and mobile application and content companies. Before Amicus, Bob represented seed stage technology companies, such as Hotmail, AvantGo and eGroups, in all aspects of formation, financing and operations, as a partner at Venture Law Group and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, both leading Silicon Valley law firms.
57	Amicus Capital	Carol Mitchell	Operations Manager	Carol Mitchell is the Operations Manager for Amicus Capital, overseeing tax and accounting operations, stock distributions and portfolio company financings, and handling communications with limited partners and portfolio companies. From 2004 to 2006, Carol was also an accountant with Seiler & Company, LLP in San Francisco, where she obtained her license as a Certified Public Accountant. Prior to joining Amicus in 2001, Carol worked for Robertson Stephens in San Francisco where she was involved with sell-side equity research in the specialty pharmaceutical, medical technology and health care information technology sectors.
58	Amicus Capital	Heather Ostergren	Research Assistant	Heather Ostergren provides research assistance and organizational support to Amicus Capital and its portfolio companies. Prior to joining Amicus in 1998, Heather worked with Bob as a paralegal at Venture Law Group and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Heather has a wealth of experience addressing the practical problems that face a seed stage technology company.
59	Andreesen Horowitz	Alex Rampell	General Partner	Alex Rampell is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, he was the CEO and cofounder of TrialPay, a leading transactional advertising and payments company serving digital goods and e-commerce clients such as Facebook, Zynga, and Gap, with 100 employees and over $300M in revenue. TrialPay was acquired by Visa in 2015. TrialPay also spun out another company, Yub, the first offline affiliate network, where Alex simultaneously served as CEO through its acquisition in late 2013 by Coupons.com.
60	Andreesen Horowitz	Angela Strange	Partner	Angela is a FinTech & Consumer focused Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. She is also co-chair of C100, a non-profit that bridges Canadian entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley’s most influential expat technology entrepreneurs, executives, and investors to help Canadian companies win on the global stage.
61	Andreesen Horowitz	Anu Hariharan	Partner	Anu is a partner on the investing team focused on the consumer sector.
62	Andreesen Horowitz	Connie Chan	Partner	Connie is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she focuses on finding great entrepreneurs with big ideas in consumer tech. Previously, Connie led business development and marketing efforts for HP Palm in China. At Palm, she also launched the App Catalog, developer portal and the Facebook application for webOS. Prior to HP Palm, she worked as a founding Senior Associate at Elevation Partners, a $1.8 billion media and entertainment private equity firm, where she fell in love with the consumer Internet and mobile space. Connie graduated from Stanford University with a MS in Management Science & Engineering, and a BA in Economics.
63	Andreesen Horowitz	Morgan Beller	Partner	Morgan is working in the anomaly business - working on the deal & research team to find the next winners.
64	Andreesen Horowitz	Tawny Holguin	Partner	Tawny is a partner at Andreesen Horowitz.
65	Andreesen Horowitz	Frank Chen	Partner	Frank is a Former product and user experience design executive. Now helping entrepreneurs change the world at a Silicon Valley venture firm.
66	Andreesen Horowitz	Lauren Berson	Partner	non listed
67	Andreesen Horowitz	Kyle Russell	Deal Partner	Kyle is Discovering, backing, and supporting the best companies in emerging categories — virtual/augmented reality, drones, crypto, biohacking, and quantum computing.
68	Andreesen Horowitz	Gia Scinto	Partner, Executive Talent	non listed
69	Andreesen Horowitz	Mark Cranney	Partner	Mark is the Operating Partner and lead for market and business development efforts for the firm.
70	Andreesen Horowitz	LJ Erwin	Partner	LJ identify the most exciting, innovative, and disruptive early stage founders.
71	Andreesen Horowitz	Boris Wertz	Board Partner	Entrepreneur turned investor. Co-founder AbeBooks (sold to Amazon), early-stage investor through @versiononevc, board partner @a16z. Current portfolio of 50+ investments, including Chloe & Isabel, Edmodo, Figure1, Frank & Oak, Indiegogo, Julep, Mattermark, Shippo, Top Hat, VarageSale and Wattpad.
72	Andreesen Horowitz	Bart Dessaint	Partner	non listed
73	Andreesen Horowitz	Elizabeth Bailey Weil	Partner	Currently: Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Board Member of The Ad Council. Formerly: Corporate Development, Business Development, and Product Marketing at Twitter. Prior to Twitter, I worked in venture capital at Institutional Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures. Background: Economics and Management Science, and Engineering degrees from Stanford University. Elizabeth Weil Fun Facts: Letterpress printer, ultramarathon runner, swimmer, wife to @kevinweil, mom to @thirdweil, and Rube Goldberg device aficionado. Specialties: Venture capital, business development, corporate development, entrepreneurship, digital marketing, product marketing, sales, operations, design, corporate culture, creativity and innovation.
74	Andreesen Horowitz	Jeff Stump	Partner, Executive Talent	Jeff Build relationships with the most talented people in the world.
75	Andreesen Horowitz	Sunil Chokshi	Partner, Executive Talent	Sunil is a Student of the game. Constantly learning from and meeting great people everyday.
76	Andreesen Horowitz	Parker Brown	Partner	Parker is a Partner on the Market Development team responsible for expanding our corporate network and accelerating time-to-market for Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies through our Executive Briefing Center.
77	Andreesen Horowitz	Brad Kern	Partner	non listed
78	Andreesen Horowitz	Matt Levy	Partner, Executive Talent	non listed
79	Andreesen Horowitz	Naithan Jones	Partner	Naithan is An experienced executive and operator primarily within the context of software and internet businesses with a deep experience directing and managing teams responsible for revenue and product distribution goals
80	Andreesen Horowitz	Eric B. Thomas	Partner, Technical Talent	Building a talent network of designers, engineers, product managers, and technical professionals for our portfolio of companies.
81	Andreesen Horowitz	Todd Lutwak	Partner	non listed
82	Andreesen Horowitz	Jose Guardado	Partner, Executive Talent	non listed
83	Andreesen Horowitz	Shannon Schiltz	Partner	Building a technical talent network
84	Andreesen Horowitz	Mahesh Iyer	Partner	Mahesh is a Marketing leader with impressive track record of leadership & achievement in conceiving, implementing & executing high-impact marketing initiatives with outstanding results and exponential demand generation. Exceptional track record in innovative go-to-market strategies, marketing campaigns and pipeline generation through a multi-faceted approach. Highly successful in creating exponential pipeline growth though qualified sales leads and boosting customer adoption and reference-ability through well thought-out campaign strategies and programs over the last 17 years.
85	Andreesen Horowitz	Jason Franklin	Deal Team Partner	non listed
86	Andreesen Horowitz	Saku Panditharatne	Partner	non listed
87	Andreesen Horowitz	Samantha Langford	College Talent Partner	non listed
88	Andreesen Horowitz	Shawn Conway	Partner	Professional with a broad range of business, legal, operating and financial experience. Active in emerging-growth and startup technology companies since 1996.
89	Andreesen Horowitz	Tyler Wilson	Partner	non listed
90	Andreesen Horowitz	Juliet (Pullis) Nyatta	Partner	I'm most interested in finding ways to make organizations more productive through better data, technology and motivators. This is my current focus at Andreessen Horowitz.
91	Andreesen Horowitz	Marc Andreessen	General Partner	Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies.
92	Andreesen Horowitz	Tristan Walker	Entrepreneur-In-Residence	Prior to his founding Walker & Company he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to his time at Andreessen Horowitz, he was the Director of Business Development for foursquare, where he oversaw strategic partnerships and monetization.
93	Andreesen Horowitz	Benedict Evans	Partner	I work at Andreessen Horowitz ('a16z'), a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley that invests in technology companies. I try to work out what's going on and what will happen next, and talk about it in blog posts, podcasts, a newsletter, and on twitter.
94	Andreesen Horowitz	Balaji Srinivasan	Board Partner	I am broadly interested in new technology, with a particular focus on “real world” applications where digital bits interface with physical atoms and substantive problems, such as quantified self (healthcare), MOOCs/edtech (education), Bitcoin (finance), drones, and 3D printing.
95	Andreesen Horowitz	Emily Graff	Partner	non listed
96	Andreesen Horowitz	Michael Paulus	Partner	non listed
97	Andreesen Horowitz	Austin Guzman	Partner	non listed
98	Andreesen Horowitz	Chris Dixon	General Partner	non listed
99	Andreesen Horowitz	Scott Kupor	Managing Partner	non listed
100	Andreesen Horowitz	Zal Bilimoria	Partner	Discovering, backing, and supporting the best company builders and job creators of our time. Our firm has over $4 billion under management across four funds. Co-led our investments in Cyanogen, Teespring, Omada Health, ToutApp, Altschool, Lyft, Product Hunt, Honor, HumanAPI, Mixpanel, SolveBio, uBiome, & Zenefits among others. Helped get our recently announced $200M Bio Fund off the ground: http://slidesha.re/1kGsGwR Additional firm investments include Airbnb, Airware, Box, Buzzfeed, Coinbase, Digital Ocean, Envoy, GitHub, Imgur, Improbable, Instacart, Jawbone, Mesosphere, Oculus, OfferUp, OnShape, OpenGov, Optimizely, Okta, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Shapeways, Soylent, Stack Overflow, Tanium, Tilt, & Transferwise.