- Bob Kagle
With over 20 years of venture capital investment experience, Bob is a veteran of the venture industry. Prior to Benchmark, Bob spent 12 years as a General Partner with Technology Venture Investors. Before TVI, Bob worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he focused on issues of corporate strategy in industries ranging from retail distribution to high technology manufacturing.
- Scott Sassa
Scott Sassa is currently Founder and CEO of uber.com a consumer internet site. Prior to that, he served as Residence with Kleiner Perkins, a leading technology venture capital firm. From 2004 to 2005, he served as President and CEO of Friendster, a top 50 Internet site that pioneered social networking. Friendster was backed by Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital.
- Mike Farmwald
Mike Farmwald is a successful serial entrepreneur working in the Silicon Valley high-tech industry. He is currently a partner of Benchmark Capital, a venture capital company. He has founded these companies: *"FTL" (1986) - ECL supercomputers, merged with MIPS Computer Systems *Rambus (1990) - high speed interfaces, used in PCs and video game consoles *Chromatic Research (1993) - media-processors, …
- Mike Devlin
Mike Devlin is a U.S. entrepreneur who co-founded Lexington, Massachusetts-based Rational Software Corporation, a software development company. As CEO of Rational, Devlin oversaw the acquisition of several companies, including Objectory AB (1995), and "Catapulse" (2001), a start-up which was funded by Rational, in conjunction with Benchmark Capital. In 2003, Rational Software was acquired by IBM for 2.1 billion dollars (U.S), …
- Jonathan Abrams
I'm a Carleton University engineering student majoring in Computer Systems. I want to be succesful just like my hero Jonathan Abrams (the founder of this site). I did a co-op term at Nortel Networks in my hometown of Nepean (a suburb of Ottawa), just like he did!
- Bob Weiderhold
Bob Weiderhold Chairman, President & CEO Transitive Corporation Bob Weiderhold brings more than 20 years of software-related, high technology experience to Transitive Corporation. Until 2001, Bob served as President and CEO of Tality Corporation, the worldwide leader in electronic design services whose revenues grew to $200M and had 1,500 employees worldwide.
- Bruce Dunlevie
Bruce is a seasoned veteran of venture capital with more than 18 years experience in high-tech investing. Prior to Benchmark, Bruce spent six years as a general partner with Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre (MPAE). Before MPAE, Bruce served as general manager of the Personal Computer Division of Everex Systems, which he founded and grew to a multi-hundred million-dollar business unit.
- Kevin Harvey
Kevin is a seasoned entrepreneur with a long track record of developing innovative technologies into successful enterprises. Prior to Benchmark, Kevin was founder, president and CEO of Approach Software where he led the development of the world's first end-user client/server database for Windows.
- Matt Cohler
Matt Cohler is a General Partner at Benchmark Capital . He's responsible for identifying investment opportunities in Internet-related services, in addition to working closely with companies across the firm's portfolio. Previously he served as the VP of Product Management at Facebook , where he led the development of new strategic initiatives for the company. As the seventh employee at Facebook, Matt has worked with the team during many critical growth phases.
- Keith Krach
Keith Krach CEO and Chairman of the Board Ariba, Inc. As chairman, CEO and co-founder of Ariba, Inc. Ketih Krach is responsible for the management and strategic direction of the company. Under his leadership, Ariba has increased its employee base to 1200 employees worldwide in just over 3 years.
- Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley joined Benchmark Capital in 1999 after spending two years as a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Before entering the venture capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston focusing on personal computer hardware and software. His research coverage included such companies as Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft, and he was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO.
- Nirav Tolia
Nirav Tolia Email: ntolia@benchmark.com Nirav Tolia has spent the last 11 years working at early-stage, pioneering consumer Internet companies. His experience lies in the areas of online community, user-generated content, e-commerce and social networking. Prior to joining Benchmark, Nirav served as an advisor and consultant to several consumer Internet companies, including aSmallWorld, Simply Hired and Zillow.
- Sarah Leary
Sarah Leary has spent more than 15 years as a product and marketing executive responsible for building, branding and launching market-defining consumer software and Internet services. Most recently, she has focused on developing online community, user-generated content and e-commerce businesses.
- Rich Barton
In addition to serving as a venture partner at Benchmark, Rich is Chairman and CEO of Zillow Inc., an online real estate service dedicated to providing home buyers and sellers with valuable tools and information.
- Andy Rachleff
Andy served as a Benchmark general partner from 1995 until 2004. Since the raising of our latest US fund, he has reduced his role to focusing on his existing portfolio companies and no longer evaluates new investments. With his free time, Andy serves as a lecturer in entrepreneurship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also serves as a member of the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and as an overseer for its School of Engineering and Applied Science.
- Steve Spurlock
Steve has been active in venture capital for nearly 20 years. He currently serves as Benchmark’s operating partner, running the day-to-day operations of the firm and acting as counsel to the firm. He joined Benchmark in 1999 after spending four years as a partner with Gunderson Dettmer.
- Jim Norris
Prior to joining Benchmark, Jim was technical lead on the Google Maps backend free-form location search architecture, responsible for overseeing international expansion, quality and scalability improvements.
- Danny Shader
Danny Shader President and CEO of Good Technology, Inc Danny Shader is president and CEO of Good Technology, Inc. Prior to Good, Mr. Shader served as a vice president and general manager at Amazon.com. Mr. Shader co-founded and was CEO of Accept.com, the first consumer-to-consumer payment services company.
- Mitch Lasky
Mitch Lasky has spent more than two decades in the mobile gaming, new media and interactive entertainment business. Prior to joining Benchmark Capital, Mitch served as executive vice president of Mobile and Online at Electronic Arts. Previously, he was chairman and chief executive officer of JAMDAT Mobile, Inc, the leading global publisher of wireless entertainment applications, which was acquired by EA in 2005.
- Peter Fenton
Peter Fenton is general partner at Benchmark Capital Peter Fenton is only 34. Yet not only has he already led three investments that have sold for substantial amounts of money, he also was in the rare position of being fought over last year by two of the valley's most prominent venture firms. Benchmark Capital raided Accel Partners specifically to pull Fenton, who had joined Accel in 1999, over to their ranks. Why did Benchmark bother?
- Bret Taylor
Bret Taylor is the Product Manager for Google's Developer Programs. He joined Google in early 2003 and has managed a number of products, including Google Maps, the Google Maps API, Google Local, Google's web search infrastructure, and Search Quality. Prior to Google, Bret worked as a software engineer at Reactivity, a startup incubator in Silicon Valley. Bret holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
- Mike Cassidy
Mike Cassidy has been the Co-Founder and CEO of three start-ups: Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation. Xfire ( www.xfire.com ) helps gamers play with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also an instant messenger and peer-to-peer file download system designed just for gamers. Xfire has over 2 million registered gamers in over 100 countries. Direct Hit was a revolutionary Internet search engine whose customers included MSN, Lycos, AOL, and dozens of others.
- Eric Archambeau
Eric Archambeau Eric Archambeau has extensive management and venture capital experience in both Silicon Valley and Europe. Eric joined Wellington Partners as General Partner in early 2005. Prior to that Eric was co-founder and General Partner of Benchmark Capitals European operations in London. Eric joined Benchmark from Atlas Venture where he was a General Partner in Silicon Valley until the end of 1999.
- Tim Barker
Tim Barker , Vice President Product Management Tim Barker was a product manager and strategist at Documentum, the leading content management platform for the Global 2000. He worked alongside John Newton in defining the company's strategy for expanding its content management platform into markets such as B2B marketplaces, enterprise portals and enterprise integration. In addition to developing strategy, Tim also defined product requirements and managed product development teams.
- Alex Balkanski
Alex Balkanski, Partner, Benchmark Capital Prior to joining Benchmark, Alex led C-Cube and DiviCom, two pioneering companies that drove the MPEG standard to dominance in consumer electronics and broadcasting. Alex founded C-Cube in 1988. In 1994, he took the company public, and in 1998 he orchestrated C-Cube’s acquisition of DiviCom. By 2000, C-Cube was generating a half-billion dollars in annual revenue with 1,200 employees worldwide.
- David Goldberg
Dave Goldberg is an accomplished entrepreneur, an influential music industry executive, and a driving force in the online music industry. He co-founded LAUNCH Media Inc. in 1994, which was dedicated to delivering music and music-related content online, and he led the company through its acquisition by Yahoo! in 2001.
- Gadi Maier
Gadi Maier - Chief Executive Officer Before joining Fraud Sciences Corporation Gadi spent a year as a Venture Partner at Benchmark Capital and Pinnacle Ventures. Prior to this, Gadi was a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Scalent Systems, where he successfully introduced the industry's most advanced datacenter virtualization software.
- John Newton
John Newton, Co-founder & CTO, Alfresco
- David Beirne
Dave joined Benchmark Capital in May 1997. Prior to joining Benchmark, Dave founded Ramsey/Beirne Associates, the leader in senior management, high-impact search for information technology companies. In his more than 10 years at Ramsey/Beirne, Dave was CEO of the firm and developed a nationwide reputation for recruiting high-profile executives.
- Brandi
i'm easygoing, friendly (wink, wink) and can usually find humor in almost anything. and sometimes you just need to say...
- Pete Malcolm
Pete founded Orchestria in August 2000 and led the Company as CEO through July 2004, establishing its early customer wins and market leading position. Prior to Orchestria, Pete was Benchmark Capital's first European Entrepreneur in Residence. A well-known innovator in the data storage industry for over a decade, his broad career experience includes technology, product development, marketing, and senior management roles in companies ranging from start-ups to software giants.
- James Mooney
James F. Mooney Mr. Mooney became Chairman of RCN in December 2004. Mr. Mooney also serves as Chairman of NTL, Incorporated ("NTL"), a provider of bundled telecommunications services, including voice, video, and data services, in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Prior to joining NTL in February 2003, Mr. Mooney was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Nextel Communications Inc. from February 2001 to September 2002.
- Christopher J Hadsell
Chris is a founding member of Cardinal Venture Capital. Prior to joining Cardinal Venture Capital, Chris was CFO for Benchmark Capital. His venture capital experience also includes positions as Associate and CFO at Alpha Partners. Prior to venture capital, Chris co-founded Symphony Medical, Inc., a medical practice management company, where he was an Account Executive and CFO.
- Mike Harrigan
Mike Harrigan Vice President, Customer Service & Support For Mike Harrigan , Tesla Motors is the "perfect storm," combining his passion for cars and technology with his interest in the environment and start-up companies. At Tesla Motors, Mike is responsible for creating a world-class, after-sale customer experience that mirrors the uniqueness of the Tesla Roadster.
- Karl Jacob
Serial Entrepreneur, Kiteboarder, CEO. Started 5 companies, two sold, one to Microsoft. Two are ongoing entitities, both profitable one doing over $70 million in revenue. Just got back from taking 7 months off and kiteboarding in Cozumel, Hatteras, Michigan and Oregon.
- Jon Nordmark
Jon Nordmark - President and CEO, eBags
- Arad Naveh
Arad Naveh Arad, a U.S. and Israeli citizen, has extensive operating and venture capital experience in both Silicon Valley and Israel. Prior to joining Benchmark, Arad was a director of business development at Cisco, where, for two years, he was responsible for investment and M&A activity in Israel. While at Cisco, Arad led several acquisitions and made a number of early-stage investments in companies specializing in networking, optical communications and broadband services.
- Kevin Harvey
Kevin Harvey Chairman Kevin Harvey is a General Partner of Benchmark Capital. Kevin is a seasoned entrepreneur with a long track record of developing innovative technologies into successful enterprises. Prior to Benchmark, Kevin was founder, president and CEO of Approach Software where he led the development of the world's first end-user client/server database for Windows. Approach Software was purchased by Lotus Development in 1993.
- Mark Evans
Mark Evans Non-Executive Director Mark Evans is a General Partner at Benchmark Capital. Mark Evans is a General Partner at Benchmark Capital. Prior to Benchmark, Mark was CEO of Bridgespan and also served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital in Menlo Park. Prior to Benchmark, Mark was CEO of Bridgespan and also served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital in Menlo Park.
- Nachman Shelef
Nachman Shelef - Advisor Nachman Shelef Nachman was a General Partner at Benchmark Capital ( www.benchmark.com ). Nachman established, together with two additional partners, the Benchmark Israel funds to fund early stage technology companies in Israel. Prior to Benchmark Nachman was Vice President of Business Development at 3Com Corporation, after serving as Vice President and General Manager of several 3Com organizations based in Santa Clara, Boston, and Israel.