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Managing Directors

H. DuBose Montgomery
Douglas C. Carlisle
John W. Jarve
Sonja Hoel Perkins
Mark A. Siegel
Hal Calhoun
Arvind Purushotham
Pravin A. Vazirani
Shawn T. Carolan

Venture Advisor

Thomas H. Bredt

Associates/Analysts

Vineet Mehta
Tyler V. Sosin
Sara E. Tillim

Finance

Kirsten A. Mello
Amy R. Biagini

Shawn T. Carolan

Shawn T. Carolan

Managing Director

Shawn joined Menlo Ventures in 2002 and has focused primarily on connected software and services. He represents Menlo Ventures on the boards of IMVU, PlayPhone, Playspan, Roku, TeleNav (NASDAQ: TNAV) and YuMe. His prior investments and board seats include Siri, acquired by Apple (AAPL). Before joining Menlo, Shawn was a management consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, after spending most of his career in software development and engineering management positions. He was Manager of Software Architecture for Open Port Technology, a start-up that created Internet-based messaging software for data carriers. Prior to that, Shawn worked at Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group and Wireless Data Group, Sprint PCS, and the University of Illinois' Center for Computational Electromagnetics. Shawn is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.) and the University of Illinois, Champaign (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering) and author of a US patent.


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