Bruce Sachs joined CRV in 1999, after twenty years of experience in the telecommunications, networking, Internet and computing industries. Sachs started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories and then as a director of engineering at Memotec/Infinet. He joined publicly held Xylogics as director of engineering in 1989 and ultimately became chief executive officer. Sachs led the company through a dramatic reformulation of strategy and repositioning, and in 1995 sold Xylogics to Bay Networks. Sachs went on to serve as an executive vice president of Bay Networks. After leaving Bay Networks in 1997,Sachs joined publicly held Stratus Computer as president and CEO. At Stratus, Sachs led the repositioning of the company to focus on telecom software and services in addition to its traditional computing foundation. The Stratus Computer turnaround led to its acquisition by Ascend Communications in October 1998. Sachs was then tapped as executive vice president and general manager of Ascend’s Carrier Signaling and Management Group, and stayed on briefly as a consultant at Lucent Technologies upon its acquisition of Ascend.
Bruce’s current investments at CRV include SimpliVity (enterprise storage), DataGravity (enterprise storage), OneCloud (enterprise storage), Jibo (stealth mode), SpiderCloud (mobile infrastructure), CarrierIQ (analytics for wireless carriers), iControl (online household monitoring services), Nantero (memory chip technology licensing), and Great Call (consumer mobile health and safety solutions). In addition, Sachs managed CRV’s investments in BNI Video (sold to Cisco in 2011) Acopia (sold to F5 in 2007), BigBand (IPO 2007), Flarion Technologies (sold to Qualcomm in 2006), RiverDelta Networks (sold to Motorola in 2001) and Hammerhead Networks (sold to Cisco Systems in 2002). He also serves on the board of publicly held Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

Specialties: Enterprise and service provider infrastucture, Cloud, Robotics and Consumer Electronics

Felda Hardymon, a partner in Bessemer’s Cambridge, Mass. office, joined the firm in 1981. He focuses on investments in the software, communications and storage sectors.  He serves on the boards of Vertica (acquired by HP), Streambase (acquired by TIBCO), Goal.com (acquired by Perform), Endeca and SVB Financial Group (aka Silicon Valley Bank).

Past investments include superconducting materials company American Superconductor (NASDAQ: AMSC); telecommunications providers Cascade Communications (acquired by Ascend) and Sirocco (acquired by Cascade); Celcore, a maker of switches for wireless-telephone networks (acquired by DSC); African telecommunications provider Celtel (acquired by MTC, now called Zain); Parametric Technology, a provider of product cycle-management software; sporting-goods chain Sports Authority; office-supply company Staples; and Axis Networks (acquired by ACE) a 4G, wireless-remote radio head supplier.

Since 1998, Felda also has taught and done research at Harvard Business School where he holds the appointment of MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice. He is currently on leave from Harvard and is a visiting professor of finance at The London School of Economics.  Prior to joining Bessemer, Felda worked at BDSI, the original venture subsidiary of General Electric, where he was an investor in Ungermann-Bass, Stratus Computer and Western Digital. Prior to that, he taught mathematics and served as director of systems and research at Duke University.
Felda has a B.S. from Rose Polytechnic, an M.A. and Ph.D from Duke and an MBA from Harvard.

Rich Krueger is a software entrepreneur with a proven track record of developing and commercializing new technologies.  He has been directly involved in developing and bringing to market software products that continue to generate over $100M/year in revenue and solve major industry problems.  Prior to PatientRoute, he was founder and CEO of DynamicOps, a venture-funded, cloud automation software company he started in 2008.  DynamicOps was acquired by VMware in 2012 and the DynamicOps brand, products and technology continues to be a major component in VMware’s cloud management offering.  Before this, Mr. Krueger held executive roles at several companies which either went public or were acquired including Incipient, Continuum Software, Conley Corporation, and Discreet Logic’s Stone+Wire Division.  He holds an MBA in Operations Management and MS Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and BS from Rutgers University.

Alex Pinchev is a veteran global executive with a 35+ year track record of success in the software industry whose experience ranges from founding companies to being a senior executive and serving on boards of prominent publicly traded companies.

Alex is the Chief Executive Officer of Capri Ventures, which provides strategic advisory services to technology start-ups on a global basis, helping them to build a scalable business model, and also working with investors to accelerate the value of their portfolio companies. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Acronis, a leading provider of data protection and disaster recovery software with over three million consumer and 200,000 corporate customers. Prior to joining Acronis, Alex was the President of Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing at Red Hat, growing revenue from $50 million to over $1 billion in nine years. He also held a range of senior roles within a range of technologies, including MRO Software, Interchip, and MainControl, where he was Chairman, CEO, and Founder.

Alex’s extensive software industry knowledge encompasses positioning, growth and go-to-market strategies for international and local markets, and he holds deep relationships across major players in the global enterprise software business. He has directed large-scale global sales, marketing and service organizations, and has served on the Board of Directors of BMC Software, Qualys, LogiAnalytics, XebiaLabs

Mike is the President & CEO of OneCloud Software where he is responsible for the company’s overall strategy and execution, bringing more than 25 years of technology industry leadership and executive management experience in rapidly growing successful organizations. Prior to joining OneCloud Software, Mike was President/CEO of Sepaton, Inc. which was acquired by HDS/Hitachi after the successful launch of a new innovative backup appliance. Prior to that, he served as Executive Chairman and CEO/President of Egenera, Inc. where he grew the company to $100M in just five years. Prior to Egenera, Mike served as Senior Vice President of worldwide sales and marketing of Stratus Technologies.  He served as a Director on the Boards of SEPATON Inc., Revivio, Inc. and Stratus Technologies. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Southern Connecticut University

Suresh is the founder & chief technology officer of OneCloud Software. Suresh conceived of the idea behind OneCloud when he saw that no company was truly addressing the need for organizations to simplify and manage on-premise and public cloud based elements elastically. He is a software architect and brings an extensive skill set ranging from distributed computing, networking, virtualization and cloud computing. Prior to OneCloud Software, he was an early member of VMWare’s vCloud team. Prior to VMWare, he was a principal software engineer at F5 Networks which acquired Acopia Networks, where he was a key contributor to their flagship ARX product series. He has held a variety of senior engineering roles in various startups in the networking and storage industries.