Meet the Bessemer Venture Partners Team | Bessemer Venture Partners

Charles Birnbaum

Charles Birnbaum joined Bessemer in 2013 and is a Vice President.

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Ed Colloton

Ed Colloton is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Mac Cordrey

Based in New York, Mac Cordrey focuses on investments enterprise software, mobile, consumer and machine intelligence.

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David Cowan

David Cowan is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Sakib Dadi

Sakib Dadi joined Bessemer in 2015 as an investor focusing on cloud computing, consumer web, and software investments.

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Byron Deeter

Byron Deeter is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Tomer Diari

Tomer Diari is an associate based in BVP’s Israel office, where he focuses on opportunities in Israel and Europe, investing at every stage and across industries.

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Israel

Ben Donald

Ben Donald joined Bessemer as an investor in 2015.

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Kristen Faulkner

Kristen Faulkner joined Bessemer's New York office in 2016 where she focuses on cloud software, consumer internet, and machine learning.

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Brian Feinstein

Brian Feinstein is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Alex Ferrara

Alex Ferrara is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Nate Fick

Nate Fick is an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Adam Fisher

Adam Fisher is a partner at BVP, where he manages the firm’s Herzliya office focused on investments in Israel and Europe

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Israel

Caroline Frost

Caroline joined Bessemer in 2017 as an investor based in New York City and focuses in artificial intelligence applications and data driven companies.

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Christopher Gabrieli

Christopher Gabrieli is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Jenny Gao

Jenny Gao joined Bessemer in 2015 as an investor in the New York office where she focuses on enterprise software, security, machine intelligence, and consumer web.

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Aakash Goel

Aakash Goel is a Vice President at BVP India.

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Bangalore

Talia Goldberg

Talia Goldberg joined Bessemer in 2012 and focuses on investments in consumer Internet and software businesses.

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Bob Goodman

Bob Goodman is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Nitin Gupta

Nitin Gupta joined Bessemer’s New York office in 2016 where he focuses on software investments across the landscape of technology verticals.

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Vishal Gupta

Based in Bangalore, Vishal Gupta is a Managing Director at BVP.

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Bangalore

Josh Harder

Josh Harder, a Vice President, joined the firm in 2014.

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Felda Hardymon

Felda Hardymon is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Andrew Hedin

Andrew Hedin joined Bessemer in 2015 as a Senior Associate where he focuses on investments in healthcare.

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Sunil James

“SJ” invests in information security, developer tooling, and cloud infrastructure, particularly software-defined networking.

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Amit Karp

Amit Karp, a vice president focusing on investments in Israel and Europe.

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Israel

Anna Khan

Anna Khan joined Bessemer in 2012 and focuses on investments in software, consumer web, and mobile. She is based in the San Francisco office and is involved in the firms investments in NewVoiceMedia, Intercom, DoubleDutch, and August.

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Stephen Kraus

Stephen Kraus is partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and leads up the firm’s healthcare investing activities.

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Chini Krishnan

Chini Krishnan is an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Ethan Kurzweil

Ethan Kurzweil is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Jeremy Levine

Jeremy Levine is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Ben Mathews

Bennett Mathews joined Bessemer in 2015 as an Associate where he focuses on early stage consumer web and mobile investments.

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Sunil Nagaraj

Sunil Nagaraj is a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Jay Po

Jay Po joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2014 as an investor where he focuses on Internet-of-Things, VR/AR, consumer Internet, cloud software, and mobile.

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Aneesha Raghunathan

Aneesha Raghunathan joined Bessemer in 2015 where she focuses on healthcare, financial services and cloud computing investments.

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Michael Segal

Michael Segal is a Senior Associate.

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Kristina Shen

Kristina Shen is a Vice President.

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Scott Smith

Scott Smith is an Operating Partner with Bessemer where he advises on our Space Tech investments, drawing on his 30 years of experience managing large, complex commercial satellite programs.

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Rob Stavis

Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Li Sun

Li Sun joined BVP in Oct 2016 as a senior associate at the Menlo Park office.

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Andrew Walsh

Andrew Walsh joined Bessemer in 2013 as an investor where he focuses on cloud computing, consumer internet and healthcare investments.

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Jordan Windmueller

Jordan Windmueller is an investor, where he focuses on healthcare, financial technology, cloud computing, and consumer internet.

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Solutions Team

At the service of our startups.

Umair Akeel

Chief technology officer in residence (CTO-IR) Umair Akeel is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Jan Crisostomo

Jan Crisostomo is Manager of Technical Talent at Bessemer, where she works closely with Bessemer’s portfolio companies providing strategic counsel and tactical support on technical talent acquisition.

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Jeff Epstein

Jeff Epstein, an Operating Partner in Bessemer’s Menlo Park office and the former CFO of Oracle and DoubleClick, works with Bessemer portfolio company CFOs and CEOs to share and implement best practices.

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Andy Geisse

Operating Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners, former CEO of AT&T Business Solutions.

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Miia Laukkarinen

Miia Laukkarinen is Bessemer’s VP of Talent, where she joined in 2013 to build the firm’s talent network. She works closely with Bessemer’s investment team and portfolio companies on all human capital programs and hiring strategies.

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Tiffany Spencer

As head of global marketing and communications, Tiffany Spencer works closely with BVP-funded startups around the world providing both strategic counsel and tactical support on communications and marketing initiatives. It’s a role she loves.

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