Gregory P. Sands

Who is Gregory P. Sands?

Greg Sands is Managing Director of Sutter Hill Ventures. Greg

focuses on software, internet services, and advertising, marketing and

media technologies and services across channels. He looks for important

business functions the internet can revolutionize or replace, complex

and scalable software, and high margin, defensible business models.

Greg Sands joined Sutter Hill Ventures in 1998 from Netscape

Communications. As the company's original product manager, he

co-authored the company's original business plan and launched and

shipped its initial products, working closely with both engineering and

sales. He then created and led the SuiteSpot business unit, growing it

from $0 to $150M. He also worked previously at Cisco Systems, where he

was the architect of a global channel management plan, and at Corporate

Decisions (now Mercer Management Consulting), where he consulted to

start-ups and Fortune 500 companies on product development and

marketing strategies.

Greg serves as a director for AllBusiness.com, ChoiceStream, Merced

Systems, Nexxo Financial, QuinStreet, Return Path, and Valista. Greg is also a board observer at Feedburner and SeeSaw Networks.

Greg is a trustee of the Stanford University DAPER Fund. He also

co-founded, and is a director of the non-profit Start Up, a

microenterprise program for entrepreneurs and small business owners in

underprivileged communities. He is also a member of the Board of

Trustees for the Stanford Business School Trust.

He earned an AB in government from Harvard College in 1989 and received an MBA at Stanford in 1994.