Geoff Yang

Who is Geoff Yang?

Geoff Yang is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to

founding Redpoint, Geoff was a general partner with IVP, a firm he

joined in 1987.Geoff emphasizes investments in consumer media and infrastructure. His media and advertising investments include Ask Jeeves, Excite, MySpaceand TiVo.His networking investments includeBigBand, Calix, Foundry Networks, Juniper Networks, MMC Networksand Wellfleet. He currently serves on the Board of BigBand Networks(BBND) and TiVo (TIVO). His privately-held company board seats include: Azul Systems, Calix, Gaia Online,Efficient Frontier, Fanfare, M2Z Networksand Oodle.In

addition, Geoff was founding director or previously led investments in

Agile Networks, Applied Digital Access, Centillion, Collabra,

Crescendo, Golfweb, JotSpot, Netcore Systems, Netlink, Promatory, Rapid

City, Shasta Networks, Synernetics, and Whitetree.Geoff is currently on the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate

School of Business, and previously served on the President's

Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) as well as a Director

of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and President of the

Western Association of Venture Capitalists. Prior to joining

IVP, Geoff was an Associate with First Century Partners where he had

specialized in communications and software investments. Earlier, Geoff

had been in technical support and marketing at IBM Corp.Geoff

holds a B.S.E. in Engineering and Management Systems from Princeton

University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.