Team

Bob led early stage investments as a general partner at Matrix Partners from 2001-2008, and as a general partner at Crosspoint Venture Partners from 1999-2001.

Bob’s current and former board seats include Access360 (enterprise software, acquired by IBM), Consera (infrastructure software, acquired by HP), eHealth.com (consumer internet, NASDAQ: EHTH), PostPath (messaging software, acquired by Cisco), Tealeaf (enterprise software), and Xign (SaaS, acquired by JPMorgan).

Prior to working as a venture capitalist, Bob spent his career as an operating executive at a number of software and Internet companies. Bob joined Netscape in 1995 and served as its Senior Vice President and General Manager of the browser division. He led Netscape’s famous “browser wars,” while managing engineering and product management for browsers, email clients, and HTML editors, which garnered 100 million users and pioneered the widespread consumer adoption of the Internet.

In 1998, Bob embraced open source and launched mozilla.org, which represented the first time a major commercial software company adopted an open source strategy. Today Mozilla continues to enjoy considerable success with its Firefox browser. Bob currently serves on the board of directors of the Mozilla Foundation.

Prior to Netscape, Bob was the Vice President of Marketing at Collabra, a start-up whose groupware software sparked a continuing interest in online collaboration. In the early 1990s, Bob worked at Apple Computer’s Claris subsidiary where he launched and directed the ClarisWorks product line. In the 1980s, he worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, advising Silicon Valley technology companies on IPOs and mergers and acquisitions.

In his spare time, Bob is a Ruby and Arduino enthusiast, kids’ basketball coach, distance cyclist and commercial-rated pilot.