Jocelyn Goldfein is an American technology executive and investor. She is the managing director and a general partner at venture capital firm Zetta Venture Partners. Previously she was a director of engineering at Facebook and vice president of engineering at VMware. [1]
Goldfein attended Stanford University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1997. [2] After college, Goldfein started her career at Trilogy. [2] Later, she spent seven years at VMware, eventually becoming vice president of engineering. [3] While at VMware, she worked on their core virtualization offering and began their desktop business. [4] She moved on to become director of engineering at Facebook where her teams worked on several features, including news feed and search. [5] She is the managing director and a general partner at venture capital firm Zetta Venture Partners, as well as a guest lecturer at Stanford University, angel investor, and advisor. [1] [4] She is a member of the board of Harvey Mudd College. [4]
She spoke at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2012, [5] and delivered a keynote address at Women 2.0's HowTo conference in 2014. [2] In 2017, she was named to Business Insider's list of "43 Most Powerful Female Engineers." [4]
Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is also a co-founder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook, eBay, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, among others. Andreessen was one of six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in 1994..
Stephen T. Jurvetson is an American businessman and venture capitalist. Formerly a partner of the firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he was an early investor in Hotmail, Memphis Meats, Mythic and Nervana. He is currently a board member of SpaceX and Tesla, among others. He later co-founded the firm Future Ventures with Maryanna Saenko, who worked with him at DFJ.
Kristina M. Johnson is an American business executive, engineer, academic, and former government official, and 13th Chancellor of the State University of New York. She has been a leader in the development of optoelectronic processing systems, 3-D imaging, and color-management systems.
Diane B. Greene is an American technology entrepreneur and investor. Greene was a founder and the CEO of VMware from 1998 until 2008. She served as the CEO of Google's cloud businesses from 2015 until early 2019. Between 2012 and 2019, she was an Alphabet board of directors member.
Anna Patterson is a software engineer. She contributed to search engines and artificial intelligence at Google, and co-founded Cuil.
James W. Breyer is an American venture capitalist, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, an investment and venture philanthropy firm, and a partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm. Breyer has invested in over 40 companies that have gone public or completed a merger, with some of these investments, including Facebook, earning over 100 times cost and many others over 25 times cost. On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.
Jim Goetz is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur who is a partner with Sequoia Capital. Goetz is known for his focus on mobile and enterprise startups, including successful investments in AdMob, WhatsApp, Chartboost and GitHub. In 2017, Goetz announced he was stepping back from his leadership duties with Sequoia, but continues to invest and represent the firm on company boards.
Mike Abbott is general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He was vice president of engineering at Twitter.
Kimber Lockhart is the Chief Technology Officer at One Medical Group. Previously, she was the Senior Director of Web Application Engineering at Box. Prior to joining Box, she co-founded Increo, a secure web-based document sharing and review service. Increo was acquired by Box in October, 2009. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Anjali Bansal Anjali Bansal is the founder of Avaana Capital, a platform that invests in the scaling up of growth stage businesses.
Kirthiga Reddy is an Indian businesswoman and venture partner for SoftBank's US$100 billion Vision Fund. Reddy is SoftBank's first female investing partner and the former managing director of Facebook India.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is a technology executive and entrepreneur. Currently the president of StubHub, she has worked at various tech and media companies including Google, Amazon and News Corp, Yodlee (YODL), and Polyvore. In 2011, she founded JOYUS, the video shopping platform for women, and served as CEO then Chairman until 2017. Singh Cassidy is also Founder of theBoardlist.
Martín Casado is a Spanish-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and investor. He is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and was a pioneer of software-defined networking, and a co-founder of Nicira Networks.
Theresia Gouw is an entrepreneur and venture capital investor in the technology sector. She worked at Bain & Company, Release Software and Accel Partners before co-founding Aspect Ventures, a female-led venture capital firm, in 2014. Gouw was named one of the 40 most influential minds in tech by Time Magazine. and has been recognized seven times on the Forbes Midas List as one of the "world's smartest tech investors".
Caitlin Kalinowski is an American product designer and mechanical engineer. She is the interim head of hardware at virtual reality technology company Oculus VR.
Elissa E. Murphy is an American software engineer and a vice president of engineering at Google. Before working at Google, she was the chief technology officer and executive vice president of platforms at GoDaddy. She previously worked at Yahoo! as a vice president of engineering.
Aditya Agarwal in Dhanbad, India is a Computer Scientist, Engineering Leader and Venture Investor. Agarwal was an early engineer at Facebook where he wrote the Facebook Search Engine. He was also Facebook’s first Director of Product Engineering. After leaving Facebook in early 2011, he started Cove — a modern collaboration software company. Cove was acquired by Dropbox and Agarwal joined as the VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer. Agarwal is also on the board of Flipkart — India’s leading e-commerce provider.
Karen Casella is a software engineer and advocate for inclusion in the technology industry. She is an engineering leader at Netflix and previously held leadership positions at eBay and SHOP.COM. She was also named a Lesbians Who Tech LGBTQ Tech and Innovation fellow.
Ashmeet Sidana is an American businessman, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the Founder, Chief Engineer and Managing Partner of Engineering Capital.
Sarah Clatterbuck is an American engineer who was selected as one of "The World's Top 50 Women in Tech 2018" by the magazine Forbes.
