Team

We put our experience to work for you.

NEA’s team of world-class investment professionals is deeply committed to helping our partner entrepreneurs and management teams build transformational companies. Our legacy of entrepreneurship—nearly one-third of our investing team members are former entrepreneurs of NEA—and unrivaled domain expertise in our sectors of focus make us an ideal partner for growing businesses.

When you choose to work with NEA, our team becomes your team—ready and able to take the call, answer the question, study the challenge and make a difference.

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
Team

PM Pai, Venture Advisor

INVESTING AREA: ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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PM joined NEA in 2009 as a Venture Advisor. He is the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SunPower and has more than 30 years of manufacturing and mass production experience in a range of industries. PM is a director of two NEA portfolio companies, Suniva, Inc., a manufacturer of high value monocrystalline solar cells, and Deeya Energy, developer of an advanced energy storage platform. While at SunPower from April 2005 to July 2008, he was responsible for strategic planning, production expansion, and supply chain development on a worldwide basis. Prior to SunPower, he served for four years as president of Moser Baer India Ltd., the world's second largest manufacturer of optical storage media. PM graduated from Mysore University, India, in Mechanical Engineering. His graduate work also includes an M.Tech Industrial Engineering, with distinction, from ITT Madras and the Advanced Management Program (ISMP) at Harvard Business School.