Mark Suster

Current

• General Partner at GRP Partners

Past

• Vice President at salesforce.com
• Founder & CEO at Koral (Acquired by Salesforce.com)
• Founder & CEO at BuildOnline (acquired by The Sword Group)

• Senior Manager, Strategy Consulting at Accenture
• Corporate Finance at First Interstate Bank

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Education

• University of Chicago
• University of California, San Diego

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

• My Company

Mark Suster’s Summary

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Mark Suster’s Experience

• General Partner

  GRP Partners

  (Partnership; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years)

  GRP Partners is a venture capital firm that backed both of my previous start-ups. I had been working with the partners for 8 years prior to joining as a General Partner. I joined "the dark side" to to help fund like-minded entrepreneurs.

• Vice President

  salesforce.com

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CRM; Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)

  I joined salesforce.com when the company where I was founder and CEO, Koral, was acquired. I stayed through a transition period to ensure that the product was ready for a successful market launch and the entire engineering team of Koral remains at salesforce.com.

• Founder & CEO

  Koral (Acquired by Salesforce.com)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2006 — March 2007 (1 year)

  I founded Koral along with my former colleagues from BuildOnline. We built the product over a 2 year period and then officially launched our new product, Koral, at DEMOFall 2006. It was a smashing success and received a lot of industry accolades. We were acquired in March 2007 by salesforce.com.

• Founder & CEO

  BuildOnline (acquired by The Sword Group)

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 1999 — November 2006 (7 years 1 month)

• Senior Manager, Strategy Consulting

  Accenture

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

  September 1991 — November 1999 (8 years 3 months)

• Corporate Finance

  First Interstate Bank

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

  April 1989 — June 1991 (2 years 3 months)

Additional Information

Mark Suster’s Websites:

• My Company