Shomit Ghose

Mr. Ghose is a venture capitalist with technology operating experience. Mr. Ghose joined ONSET Ventures after 19 years of working at high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. During his career, he participated in several successful IPOs, including those of Sun Microsystems and BroadVision.

Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer at Tumbleweed Communications, where he managed the marketing, professional services and corporate development departments. He helped the company through a successful IPO in 1999. He was Vice President of the Worldwide Professional Services Organization at BroadVision and participated in a successful IPO in 1996.

His first job was as network protocol engineer at Metaphor Computer Systems, a company acquired by IBM. Later, he was a kernel software engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has also been Director of Marketing and Director of Asia/Pacific Operations for nCUBE, a manufacturer of video-on-demand servers, and a board member of Alier, Inc., a data integration software company that is now part of webMethods.

Mr. Ghose was accepted to the University of California, Berkeley, at age 15. He graduated in 1982 with a degree in Computer Science.

At ONSET Ventures, Mr. Ghose coaches, mentors and provides management resources to portfolio companies to maximize their success. He focuses on software, networking and infrastructure companies.

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