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Investment Professionals

Information Technology

Name	Title	Location
Peter Barris	Managing General Partner	DC Metro Area
C. Richard Kramlich	Chairman & Co-Founder	Menlo Park
Forest Baskett, PhD	General Partner	Menlo Park
Tony Florence	General Partner	DC Metro Area
Patrick Kerins	General Partner	DC Metro Area
Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri	General Partner	Menlo Park
Mark Perry	General Partner	Menlo Park
Scott Sandell	General Partner	Menlo Park
Peter Sonsini	General Partner	Menlo Park
Ravi Viswanathan, PhD	General Partner	Menlo Park
Harry Weller	General Partner	DC Metro Area
Rohini Chakravarthy	Partner	Menlo Park
Patrick Chung	Partner	Menlo Park
Dayna Grayson	Partner	DC Metro Area
Tom Grossi	Partner	DC Metro Area
Paul Hsiao	Partner	Menlo Park
Suzanne King	Partner	DC Metro Area
Jon Sakoda	Partner	Menlo Park
Chetan Puttagunta	Principal	Menlo Park
Rick Yang	Principal	Menlo Park
Yanev Suissa	Venture Fellow	DC Metro Area
Daniel Axelsen	Associate	Menlo Park
Xavier del Rosario	Associate	DC Metro Area
Aaron Jacobson	Associate	Menlo Park
Amit Mukherjee	Associate	DC Metro Area
Sheel Tyle	Associate	Menlo Park

Healthcare

Name	Title	Location
Chuck Newhall	General Partner/Co-Founder	DC Metro Area
James Barrett, PhD	General Partner	DC Metro Area
Ryan Drant	General Partner	DC Metro Area
David Mott	General Partner	DC Metro Area
John Nehra	Special Partner	DC Metro Area
Robert Garland, MD	Partner	Menlo Park
Justin Klein, MD, JD	Partner	DC Metro Area
Mohamad Makhzoumi	Partner	Menlo Park
Ed Mathers	Partner	DC Metro Area
Jake Nunn	Partner	Menlo Park
Paul Walker	Partner	Menlo Park
Ali Behbahani, MD	Principal	DC Metro Area
Sara Nayeem, MD	Principal	DC Metro Area
Frank Torti, MD	Principal	Menlo Park
Christine Guo	Associate	Menlo Park
Cynthia Yee	Associate	DC Metro Area

Energy Technology

Name	Title	Location
Forest Baskett, PhD	General Partner	Menlo Park
Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri	General Partner	Menlo Park
Mark Perry	General Partner	Menlo Park
Scott Sandell	General Partner	Menlo Park
Ravi Viswanathan, PhD	General Partner	Menlo Park
Harry Weller	General Partner	DC Metro Area
Rohini Chakravarthy	Partner	Menlo Park
Tom Grossi	Partner	DC Metro Area
Jon Sakoda	Partner	Menlo Park
Yanev Suissa	Venture Fellow	DC Metro Area
Aaron Jacobson	Associate	Menlo Park
Sheel Tyle	Associate	Menlo Park

Venture Development

Venture Partners

Name	Title	Location
Peter Behrendt	Venture Advisor	Other
Ron Bernal	Venture Partner	Menlo Park
Robert Croce	Venture Partner	Other
Ching-Ho Fung	Venture Advisor	DC Metro Area
Scott Gottlieb, MD	Venture Partner	DC Metro Area
Jay Graf	Venture Partner	Other
Josh Makower, MD	Venture Partner	Menlo Park
Mike O'Dell	Venture Partner	DC Metro Area
PM Pai	Venture Advisor	Menlo Park
Greg Papadopoulos, PhD	Venture Partner	Menlo Park
Arno Penzias, PhD	Venture Partner	Menlo Park
Brooke Seawell	Venture Partner	Menlo Park
KR Sridhar	Venture Advisor	Menlo Park
George Stamas	Venture Advisor	DC Metro Area
Jimmy Treybig	Venture Partner	Other
Richard Whitney	Venture Advisor	Other

EIRs

Name	Title	Location
William Facteau	Entrepreneur-in-Residence	Other
Rajiv Khemani	Executive-in-Residence	Menlo Park
Andrew McCollum	Entrepreneur-in-Residence	Menlo Park

Operations

Marketing & Communications

Name	Title	Location
Suzanne King	Partner	DC Metro Area
Kate Barrett	Director, Communications & Marketing	DC Metro Area

Finance & Legal

Name	Title	Location
Tim Schaller	Chief Financial Officer	DC Metro Area
Louis Citron	Chief Legal Officer	DC Metro Area
Stephanie Brecher	General Counsel - U.S.	DC Metro Area

All by Location

Menlo Park

Name	Title
C. Richard Kramlich	Chairman & Co-Founder
Forest Baskett, PhD	General Partner
Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri	General Partner
Mark Perry	General Partner
Scott Sandell	General Partner
Peter Sonsini	General Partner
Ravi Viswanathan, PhD	General Partner
Rohini Chakravarthy	Partner
Patrick Chung	Partner
Robert Garland, MD	Partner
Paul Hsiao	Partner
Mohamad Makhzoumi	Partner
Jake Nunn	Partner
Jon Sakoda	Partner
Paul Walker	Partner
Carmen Chang	Partner and Managing Director, Asia (Ex-India)
Ron Bernal	Venture Partner
Josh Makower, MD	Venture Partner
Greg Papadopoulos, PhD	Venture Partner
Arno Penzias, PhD	Venture Partner
Brooke Seawell	Venture Partner
Chetan Puttagunta	Principal
Frank Torti, MD	Principal
Rick Yang	Principal
Andrew McCollum	Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Rajiv Khemani	Executive-in-Residence
PM Pai	Venture Advisor
KR Sridhar	Venture Advisor
Daniel Axelsen	Associate
Christine Guo	Associate
Aaron Jacobson	Associate
Sheel Tyle	Associate

Washington, DC Metropolitan Area

Name	Title
Peter Barris	Managing General Partner
Chuck Newhall	General Partner/Co-Founder
James Barrett, PhD	General Partner
Ryan Drant	General Partner
Tony Florence	General Partner
Patrick Kerins	General Partner
David Mott	General Partner
Harry Weller	General Partner
John Nehra	Special Partner
Dayna Grayson	Partner
Tom Grossi	Partner
Suzanne King	Partner
Justin Klein, MD, JD	Partner
Ed Mathers	Partner
Scott Gottlieb, MD	Venture Partner
Mike O'Dell	Venture Partner
Ali Behbahani, MD	Principal
Sara Nayeem, MD	Principal
Yanev Suissa	Venture Fellow
Ching-Ho Fung	Venture Advisor
George Stamas	Venture Advisor
Xavier del Rosario	Associate
Amit Mukherjee	Associate
Cynthia Yee	Associate
Kate Barrett	Director, Communications & Marketing
Tim Schaller	Chief Financial Officer
Louis Citron	Chief Legal Officer
Stephanie Brecher	General Counsel - U.S.

New Enterprise Associates (Beijing), Ltd.

Name	Title
Carmen Chang	Partner and Managing Director, Asia (Ex-India)
Xiaodong Jiang	Managing Director of NEA (Beijing) Ltd.
Bo Jiang	Vice President
Peter Zhang	China General Counsel

New Enterprise Associates (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Name	Title
Bala Deshpande	Senior Managing Director
Vamesh Chovatia	Managing Director of NEA (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Ben Mathias	Executive Director of NEA (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Ruchir Lahoty	Director
Tarun Sharma	Director
Pradeep Srinivas	Assistant Vice President

Other

Name	Title
Robert Croce	Venture Partner
Jay Graf	Venture Partner
Jimmy Treybig	Venture Partner
William Facteau	Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Peter Behrendt	Venture Advisor
Richard Whitney	Venture Advisor

Daniel Axelsen, Associate

INVESTING AREA: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
MENLO PARK OFFICE|EMAIL

Daniel joined NEA as an Associate in 2012 and focuses on enterprise and consumer technology investments. Prior to joining NEA, Daniel worked at Qatalyst Partners where he performed financial and strategic analysis for leading technology companies. His M&A experience at Qatalyst includes 3PAR’s sale to HP, Citrix’s acquisition of Cloud.com, Ancestry.com's sale to Permira, NetLogic’s sale to Broadcom, and Pliant Technology’s sale to SanDisk. Daniel is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics, concentrating in finance and minoring in computer science.