Greg Gottesman is a Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group. He joined the firm in 1997 and currently serves on the boards of AdReady, Bocada, BuddyTV, Intrepid Learning Solutions, Physware, ThinkFire, and WildTangent. Greg managed Madrona’s investments in Dantz Development Corporation (prior to its acquisition by EMC), Rendition Networks (prior to its acquisition by Opsware), Singingfish.com (prior to its acquisition by Thomson Consumer Electronics), LiveBid.com (prior to its acquisition by Amazon.com), and AdRelevance (prior to its acquisition by Media Metrix). Before joining Madrona, he worked as an Associate of the Boston Consulting Group. Greg is a board member of the Evergreen Venture Capital Association and Mercer Island Schools Foundation. He is an Advisory Board member of the University of Washington Technology Transfer Office. He is the author of three books. Greg also is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington Business School where he teaches a class on entrepreneurship and venture finance. Greg graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors and distinction from Stanford University, with honors and distinction from the Harvard Business School, and with honors from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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