Scott Sandell

Scott Sandell is co-Managing General Partner at New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) and head of NEA’s investing practice. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments in industry-transforming companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. Scott is one of only six investors to be named to the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 22 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers. In addition to his focus on information technology and alternative energy investments, Scott leads NEA’s investing activities in China. Scott is currently Lead Director at Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA). He is also a director of a number of private companies including Bloom Energy, Branch Metrics, CloudFlare and Coursera. Other previous investments include 3ware (acquired by Applied Micro Circuits Corp.), Fusion-io (acquired by SanDisk), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks), NetIQ (acquired by Attachmate Corporation), Playdom (acquired by Disney), and Spreadtrum Communications (acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup). Prior to joining NEA, Scott was a Product Manager at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows 95. Before joining Microsoft, Scott was the first salesperson at C-ATS Software and later founded and ran the company’s European subsidiary. He began his career at the Boston Consulting Group. Scott holds an MBA from Stanford and an AB in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College. Scott is also Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

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