Early/Seed Stage Investor at True Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Early/Seed Stage Investor at True Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Experience in driving business strategy, leading marketing and product management in high tech start-ups and larger companies as well as work in the investment side both in the venture capital and investment banking M&A. Expertise in enterprise software infrastructure, applications, consumer based infrastructure, and wireless applications.
Venture Capital, Marketing, business development, product management
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Very early stage VC in technology industry
(Computer Software industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
(Computer Software industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 4 months)
Manage team driving overall product roadmap of company. Geodesic is an exciting company based in India with offices in the Bay Area as well. The company develops community and entertainment based wireless and web based applications directly serving consumers, large websites, OEMs, and Carriers. We have doubled in revenue each of the last three years and are rapidly expanding.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BEAS; Computer Software industry)
March 2002 — July 2006 (4 years 5 months)
Drove BEA's RFID strategy which led to recent acquisition. In last role owned product management and marketing for RFID product line. Previously owned product marketing for the application server, JRockit, and SOA product lines. Played key role in driving SOA products to both developers as well as CIOs worldwide.
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
December 1999 — March 2002 (2 years 4 months)
Evaluated deal opportunities in addition to working with start-ups very closely.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
June 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 7 months)
Worked on both IPOs and M&A within tech industry
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Joined as 50th employee and worked in product strategy. Crossworlds was eventually purchased by IBM. I worked during my Masters year at the company.
BS/MS , Industrial Engineering , 1998