Dave is Greylock Partners and Director at EMC Corporation, Imperva and VMware. Dave’s primary areas of focus have been in enterprise technology (infrastructure and especially software); electronic design; and e-commerce. He has been an early/founding investor in more than 30 companies. Among these, more than a dozen which have become publicly-traded, including Mentor Graphics, Ascend Communications, Legato, Forte Software, Doubleclick, Internet Security Systems, and SuccessFactors. A number of other early investments have achieved successful mergers, including ccMail (Lotus/IBM); Kiva Software (Netscape/Sun); Octane Software (ePiphany); Decru (Network Appliance); and Wily (Computer Associates).
Today Dave is actively involved with seven private companies: AtHoc, BountyJobs, Matrixx Software, OpenDNS, Progreso Financiero, Rich Relevance, and Tabula. He has also been a Board member at EMC (NYSE:EMC) since 2003, and Lead Director since 2006, at VMware (NYSE:VMW) since 2007, and at Imperva (NYSE: IMPV) since 2011.
Dave is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School.