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DAVID CAMPBELL, VICE PRESIDENT, PRINCIPAL INVESTMENTS, GOLDMAN SACHS
For over 10 years he has held a number of senior roles within the Goldman Sachs Technology Group, and was elected Technology Fellow in 2002. In 2004 he joined Goldman's Principal Investment Area to invest in early stage technology companies. The technology venture investment group maintains close relationships with the firm's technology group, leveraging its insights and expertise as a key part of its strategy to invest in and build great enterprise technology companies.
David graduated from Queensland University in Australia with a BE in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Japanese. He started his career working on a number of industry and military projects, focused on operating systems and real-time control systems. In 1990 he moved to Japan to work in the Fujitsu research and development labs as an engineer on the VP2000 Unix super computer project. In 1994 he joined Goldman Sachs in Japan managing systems infrastructure across Asia for both trading and back office divisions. He then moved to New York as global systems architect and manager of global storage working on key projects, including: Goldman Sachs' mobile computing and "thin building" strategies; the XP and Linux platforms; and a complete storage infrastructure re-architecture based on tiered storage, SANs, NAS, new backup technologies, and CAS.
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PETER FENTON, PARTNER, BENCHMARK CAPITAL
Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners, where his investment interests included software, digital media, and technology enabled services.
Prior to joining the venture capital community, he spent several years working with Silicon Valley software and high-technology companies as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant. He was an early employee at Virage, a multimedia information retrieval company that went public on the NASDAQ in 2000. Peter also worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, where he advised high-technology businesses in Silicon Valley on their product and business strategies.
Investments: Aptana, Apexon, Coremetrics, Hyperic, JBoss, Mendocino Software, Oak Pacific Interactive, Reactivity, Terracotta, Wily Technology, Xensource, and Zimbra.
Education: MBA from Stanford Business School, Arjay Miller Scholar; BA from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa.
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KEVIN EFRUSY, GENERAL PARTNER, ACCEL PARTNERS
Kevin came to Accel in 2003 and serves as a General Partner. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment which currently sells in excess of $170M/year of equipment. Prior to KPCB, Kevin served as a product manager at Zip2 and a consultant at Bain & Company.
Kevin invests broadly in software and internet businesses, but he focuses on consumer internet companies, open source software, and wireless application providers. He co-led Accel's investment in The Facebook, currently serves on the boards of Metacafe, Hyperic, Xensource, Terracotta, and BBN Technologies. He is also actively involved in Riverbed Technology and Transera.
Kevin has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.
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AMIT PANDEY, CEO, TERRACOTTA
Prior to joining Terracotta, Pandey was vice president and general manager of the Data Management Business Unit at Network Appliance, where he helped develop and execute a plan that led to accelerated growth and revenue of several hundred million dollars. Earlier, Pandey was vice president and general manager of Network Appliance's Content Delivery Business Unit. He led that unit into the Enterprise Content Security market and helped establish it as the industry market share leader. Before Network Appliance, he served as a senior manager for McKinsey & Company, focusing on technology strategy and operations effectiveness with Fortune 500 companies.
Pandey holds master's degrees in Management and Engineering from MIT and a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University. He grew up in Gaborone, Botswana, and currently lives in Portola Valley, California.
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ARI ZILKA, TERRACOTTA FOUNDER AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Prior to founding Terracotta in 2003, Ari was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners. Before joining Accel, Ari was the Chief Architect at Walmart.com, where he led the innovation and development of the company's new engineering initiatives. At Walmart.com, he built and led a team of core engineers focused on performance management, and operations cost-saving measures.
Prior to Walmart.com, Ari worked as a consultant at Sapient and before that at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. During these years, he managed development and advised businesses on high technology strategy and deployment. His accomplishments at Sapient include the successful launch of Walmart.com, as well as successful engagements with Gap.com and Nike.com. At PriceWaterhouseCoopers, he worked with Harrod's of London, Siemens, Intel, Compaq, Barnes & Noble, and others.
Ari's career started as a software engineer for a subsidiary of Motorola, where he wrote groundbreaking wireless paging software. Since then, his software development accomplishments also include projects revolving around statistical analysis and data warehousing. In the mid 1990's, Ari invented a new object relational database that still exceeds the capabilities and performance of database technology today.
Ari holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Computer Science as well as in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
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