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Sonja Hoel Perkins Managing Director

Sonja joined Menlo Ventures in 1994. Prior to Menlo Ventures, she was in business development for Symantec Corporation and was an investment analyst for TA Associates. Sonja focuses primarily on Internet, communications and software investments. Her recent investments and board seats include: 3VR, Big Tent, Crowdcast, Jobfox, MOG, nCircle, Q1 Labs and Socialcast. Her prior investments and board seats include: Acme Packet (APKT); AssureNet Pathways, acquired by Symantec (SYMC); Eloquent (ELOQ); F5 Networks (FFIV); MailFrontier, acquired by SonicWALL (SNWL); Optical Solutions, acquired by Calix (CALX); PassMark Security, acquired by RSA Security (formerly RSAS and now a subsidiary of EMC Corporation); Priority Call, acquired by LHS Group; Recourse Technologies, acquired by Symantec (SYMC); Solidcore, acquired by McAfee (MFE) and Vermeer Technologies, acquired by Microsoft (MFST). Sonja is a graduate of the University of Virginia (B.S. in Commerce) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration (M.B.A.). She serves as a director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC), the Foundation Board of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

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