Derek Proudian
CEO & Venture Capital
- Role
- Board of Directors at Aether
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Derek Proudian
Expertise: Building venture investments into successful companies.Notable experience- Board Member, Newtrax - acquired by Sandvik in June 2019 for $70 million- Founding Board Member, SquareTrade - acquired by Allstate in 2107 for $1.4 billion- CEO, Daintree Networks - acquired by GE in 2016 for $100 million- Founding Board Member, mSpot - acquired by Samsung in 2012 for $50 million- Venture Partner, Morgan Stanley Ventures- CEO, Zip2 (Elon Musk\'s 1st company)- acquired by Compaq in for $300 million- General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures (Funds IV, V)- these two funds turned $225 million in LP capital into $3.5 billion in returns- R&D Manager, Artificial Intelligence, Hewlett Packard Labs- Masters degrees in Business & Computer Science from Stanford University; Five issued US patents.
Experience
Board of Directors
Sep 2017 — Present · Menlo Park, CA, US
Revolutionary synthetic biology via high-throughput robotics engineering and machine
Education
Stanford University
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science
1986 — 1987
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Masters, Business
1994 — 1995
Stanford University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English, Creative Writing
1976 — 1981
Le Cordon Bleu Paris
Petite Diplome, General Cuisine, Culinary Arts/Chef Training
1979 — 1979
Stanford University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Cognitive Science
1981 — 1983
Skills
- Mobile Devices
- Financial Analysis
- Saas
- Venture Capital
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Leadership
- Early Stage
- Team Building
- Change Management
- Product Launch
- Software Engineering
- Networking
- Storage Area Networks
- Strategic Partnerships
- Engineering Management
- User Interface Design
- Mobile Marketing
- Angel Investing
- Building Relationships
- Competitive Analysis
- Start-Ups
- Strategy
- Commercialization
- Executive Management
- University Spinouts
- Mobile Applications
- Venture Financing
- Business Planning
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Entrepreneurship
- Software as a Service (Saas)
- Business Development
- Consumer Electronics
- Natural Language Processing
- Product Development
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