- Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of close to 100 widely read blogs including Engadget, Joystiq, Luxist, Gadling and Blogging Baby. Weblogs, Inc. was founded in January of 2004 and spurred the growth of blogs. The company a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Calacanis, who was appointed a senior vice president of the AOL, maintains editorial supervision of Weblogs. - Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist. He began his career as an actuary. He was the CFO of PayPal. Now he works for Sequoia Capital and sat on the board of directors of YouTube before its acquisition by Google. Botha sits on the board of Insider Pages, Meebo, and Xoom. Botha graduated from Stanford Business School in 2000. He also attended the University of Cape Town where he did a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics. - Don Valentine
Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking." - Alex Vieux
Alex Serge Vieux is publisher of Red Herring and CEO of Red Herring Inc. Drawing on his extensive expertise as a high-tech journalist, entrepreneur, professor, and advisor to the French government, Mr. Vieux is responsible for steering the growth of the organization and guiding the publication's vision. He is also chairman, CEO, and founder of DASAR, an international organization producing exclusive international IT conferences. - Antony Clough
Antony Clough (born in Oldham, Greater Manchester in 1978) is a business entrepeneur from Heywood, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in April 2005 along with friend and business associate David Bargh they were searching for Internet investment ideas when they came up with the idea of investing in a U.S based Internet site called youtube.com. - Rahul Bhandari
Rahul Bhandari is the Founding Managing Director of Paras Ventures LLC, an investment and consulting group for high-tech companies. He leverages over fifteen years of experience in venture development, M&A integration, and leading large-scale complex change programs to help companies succeed on a strategic and tactical basis. - Mark Kvamme
Mark Kvamme , Sequoia Capital Mark Kvamme focuses on software and services investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Mark was Chairman of USWeb/CKS and Chairman and CEO of CKS Group prior to the merger with USWeb. Earlier in his career Mark was a Director of International Marketing for Wyse Technology, the President and CEO of International Solutions, and was a founding member of Apple France. - Gaurav Garg
Gaurav Garg Gaurav Garg focuses on semiconductor and systems investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2001, Gaurav was a Founder and Senior Vice-President of Product Management at Redback Networks (RBAK). Earlier, Gaurav held various engineering positions at SynOptics and Bay Networks. Gaurav has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis. - Jim Goetz
Jim Goetz Jim Goetz , partner at Sequoia Capital, focuses on investments in the component, systems and software sectors. Jim Goetz , partner at Sequoia Capital, focuses on investments in the component, systems and software sectors. Jim is currently a director with Clearwell Systems, Palo Alto Networks and PeakStream. Jim is currently a director with Clearwell Systems, Palo Alto Networks and PeakStream. - Michael Goguen
Michael Goguen, Director Michael Goguen , Director, is a Sequoia Capital US partner and focuses on investments in the components and systems sectors. He is a Director of ConSentry, Ikanos, Infoblox, LogLogic, MEMX, Navini, Ometric, PayDay One, Sipera and WideRay. Mike was responsible for Sequoia Capital's investments in Ardent, MaxComm, Monterey Networks, Netiverse, and Pipelinks, which were all acquired by Cisco. - Doug Leone
Douglas Leone focuses on investments in the software and systems sectors. He is a Director of Agitar, Aruba, inCode, Metreo, Nth Orbit, RouteScience and VA Software (LNUX). Doug is also responsible for Sequoia Capital's investment in Rackspace. - Pierre Lamond
Pierre R. Lamond Pierre Lamond focuses on semiconductor, systems and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1981, Pierre was a founder and technical director of National Semiconductor and the general manager of Fairchild's Integrated Circuit Division. He has also been the president of Advent, a consumer electronics company and Coherent, a manufacturer of lasers. - Patrick Grady
Patrick Grady Patrick Grady focuses on software and services investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2007, Patrick worked at Summit Partners where he was involved in investments in the software, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Earlier, he was an investment banker with Citigroup's Global Corporate and Investment Bank, where he worked on a variety of M&A, equity and debt transactions in the healthcare sector. - Anthony Riggio
Anthony Riggio Senior Vice President, Acquisitions & Business Development Encore Capital Group Business Development and Acquisitions. - Marie L. Leippe
Marie L. Leippe Marie Leippe is the Controller at Sequoia Capital. Marie is primarily responsible for the financial accounting and reporting for the firm's limited partnerships, general partnerships and its service company. Prior to joining Sequoia in 2001, Marie worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the Assurance and Business Advisory Services Group, specializing in high-tech start-ups and venture capital partnerships. - Sameer Gandhi
SAMEER GANDHI focuses on services and software investments. He is currently a Director of Aceva Technologies, Conformia, Elemental Security, Gracenote, Market Wire, Mirra, MarketLive and Trados. He is also responsible for Sequoia Capital's investments in eHarmony, Pacific Edge, and Sourcefire. Previously, Sameer was involved with eGroups (acquired by Yahoo) and MP3.com (acquired by Vivendi Universal). - Barbara Meece
Barbara Meece , Human Resources Manager OpSource, Inc - Tod Sacerdoti
Tod M. Sacerdoti is the Chief Executive Officer of BrightRoll and co-founded the business in July, 2006. Under Sacerdoti's direction, BrightRoll has grown from conception into the premier video advertising network, having served billions of ads on behalf of the world's leading agencies and their clients and executed campaigns on more than two-thirds of the top 100 online media properties in the United States. - Gordon Russell
Gordon Russell , Treasurer Gordon was a General Partner at Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm, for over 20 years. He has specialized in high technology and healthcare, held management positions in the biomedical and healthcare industries, and has been a director of several private and public companies. Gordon has extensive experience in not-for-profit governance and board leadership. - Greg McAdoo
Greg McAdoo , Partner , SEQUOIA CAPITAL Greg McAdoo focuses on investments in the components and systems sectors and joined Sequoia Capital in 2000. He is currently Director of SolarFlare, Big Bear Networks, & Isilon Systems. Greg was also responsible for Sequoia's investment in Allegro Systems (Acquired by Cisco in 2001). - Tim Connors
Tim Connors joined USVP in June 2001. He focuses on early stage investments in the IT sector. Prior to USVP, Tim was a Partner at Sequoia Capital. Tim's operating experience spans seven years in engineering, marketing, manufacturing and sales roles at successful high-growth start-ups like C-Cube Microsystems and large companies like Tandem Computers. Tim is currently a Director of 4info.net, Adify.com, Guidewire Software, M-Factor.com, Right90.com, and Yoomba.com. - Chris Rust
Chris Rust joined USVP as a general partner in November 2004. He brings over 20 years of electrical engineering, product management, sales/sales support, and early stage venture capital experience to USVP. Chris invests in components, software and systems for networking and consumer applications. Chris currently serves on the Board of Directors for Dilithium Networks, LVL7 Systems, Veriwave, Akros Silicon, and Stratalight. - Shmil Levy
Shmil Levy - Board Member Shmil Levy is a Partner with Sequoia Capital Israel and focuses on semiconductor, software and systems investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2000, he was the President of Lucent Technologies’ Internetworking Systems Division. Shmil joined Lucent following Lucent’s acquisition of Lannet where he served as the President and CEO. Shmil joined Lannet as VP for R&D. Shmil also served as VP of Madge Networks. - Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is founder and president of Clarium, a San Francisco-based hedge fund. He is also a founding partner of The Founder's Fund, a VC firm with early-stage investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Rapleaf, IronPort, and Powerset, among other startups. Thiel was the initial investor in Facebook, and serves on the company's board of directors. Before Clarium, he was co-founder, chairman and CEO of PayPal, which was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. - Joe Dobrenski
Joe Dobrenski Joe Dobrenski Joe Dobrenski is the Human Capital Partner at Sequoia Capital. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2002, Joe led the hardware and electronics recruiting practice for Russell Reynolds Associates. Earlier, Joe worked for Black & Decker and Price Waterhouse Management Consulting Services in roles involving strategy, operations and information technology. Joe has a BS in Operations Research from Cornell University. - John Calamia
JOHN CALAMIA :: john@lges.com John Calamia joins LGES from Calamia and Associates, Inc., where he was president and founder. John is a senior executive search professional located in New York whose clients include firms such as Tibco, Cognos, Business Objects, Backweb, Visible Path, Fortify Software, and Mark Logic. His successful searches for premier venture firms include Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Carmel Ventures, BRM Capital, and Sigma Partners. - Chris Olsen
Chris Olsen focuses on software and services investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2006, Chris worked at Technology Crossover Ventures where he was involved in private equity investments in the technology and financial services sectors and served as a board observer of eBags, Oak Pacific Interactive Corp, Whitepages.com, and Claria. - Lee Hower
Lee Hower Lee Hower Senior Associate Lee joined Point Judith Capital in 2005, having spent several years in a variety of venture-backed startups. He focuses on internet & digital media companies and is involved with PJC's investments in Multiply and Music Nation . As an early employee at PayPal (IPO, later acq. by eBay), he worked as a Product Manager and later served as Director of Financial Services. - R Ramaraj
Mr. R Ramaraj, CEO & Managing Director, Sify Limited & President, Internet Service Providers Association of India - Mark Dempster
Mark Dempster is the Marketing Partner at Sequoia Capital. Mark's role is to provide portfolio companies with an "entrepreneur start-up kit" in marketing, sales and services. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2000, Mark led the brand strategy practice for CKS Partners. Previously, Mark was a Brand Strategist for Landor Associates. Mark received a BS in Economics and Communications from UC Davis. - Judah L. Schiller
Judah Schiller Judah Schiller is Act Now’s Executive Vice-President and leads the Outreach Division. Judah is also responsible for business development, legal affairs, and corporate strategy and development for Act Now. Prior to joining Act Now, Judah was CEO of Solution Ladder LLC, a full service business consulting, corporate training, and executive coaching firm. - Neil Shen
Neil Shen is a Founding Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital China. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, he served as President & CFO of Ctrip.com International Limited (CTRP), the leading online travel company in China which he co-founded in 1999 and where he remains as a Director . Neil is also a Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Home Inns (HMIN), the leading economy hotel chain in China which was spun off from Ctrip in 2003. - Mariana Danilovic
Mariana Danilovic is the founder and Managing Director of Hollywood Portfolio, LLC, an ac celerator, developer, advisor and operator of digital media companies. Ms. Danilovic was the CEO of WITI, an international media and events company. She also founded and directed the Digital Media Incubator at KPMG, which developed numerous cross-platform entertainment companies. - Tom Stephenson
- Mohit Bhatnagar
Mohit Bhatnagar Mohit is an Operating Partner with Sequoia Capital India. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Mohit served as the Senior Vice President - Value Added Services (“VAS”) & Alliances at India's leading telecom company, Bharti Cellular Ltd. At Bharti, his group was responsible for significantly growing the VAS P&L by launching successful innovations in electronic recharging, mobile entertainment, interactive media, mobile email and mobile commerce. - Scott Gibson
Scott Gibson Scott Gibson is currently the CFO at Scintera, an advanced signal processing company. Scott has over 15 years of senior financial management experience with semiconductor or semiconductor related companies undergoing dynamic change. Most recently, he was CFO and Senior VP, Finance for Cradle Technologies. - Yuval Baharav
Yuval Baharav Yuval Baharav is a Partner with Sequoia Capital Israel. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2007, Yuval was General Manager of Corporate Development & Strategy in Amdocs. Among his responsibilities were M&A, Strategic Alliances and Corporate Strategy. Prior to that he led the Network Business Unit in Amdocs, built around the acquisition of Xacct, and managed the post-merger integration into Amdocs. - Benny Hanigal
Benny Hanigal Hanigal is a partner at Sequoia Capital Israel. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2001, he was a Partner in Star Seed, a German - Israeli Venture Fund where he led the investment activities in Israel and abroad. Before establishing Star Seed in 1998, Hanigal founded Lannet in 1985 and served as its president and CEO until it merged with Madge Networks in 1995. He continued to serve as a senior VP for product development and marketing. - Mark A. Stevens
Mark A. Stevens (Director) US PARTNER, SEQUOIA CAPITAL Mark focuses on semiconductor, software and systems-related investments. In addition to being a director of WiQuest Communications, Mark is a director of Beceem, Chelsio, Greenfield Networks, Miradia, MobilePeak, NVIDIA (NVDA), Velogix and Xceive, and is responsible for Sequoia Capitals investment in Magnachip.
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