Paul Madera Biography

Paul Madera is a former pilot, technology speaker, and a graduate of the USAF Academy and is currently Managing Director at Meritech Capital Partners a $3.1 billion venture capital fund he co-founded in 1999. Meritech is known as the pioneer of late stage investing. Paul currently focuses on the SaaS, storage, e-commerce, financial technology, digital consumer, and medical device sectors. Over the past 12 years he has led Meritech's investments into several of the most successful tech companies of the era including Facebook and Salesforce.com. He was one of the Top 10 people in the Forbes Midas List of 2014. Mr. Madera holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. from the US Air Force Academy. Before entering the private sector he served as an F-16 Instructor Pilot based in South Korea Spain and Utah.

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