Rob Ward Biography

Rob Ward was a founder of Meritech, an American private equity company focused on late stage venture capital investments in information technology companies with a focus on consumer Internet and media, software and services, enterprise infrastructure, and medical devices. Meritech, which was founded by Paul Madera, Rob Ward and Mike Gordon and is continuing to build for the future. Rob joined Meritech from Montgomery Securities where he was a principal in the Private Equity Group raising late stage capital for private information technology companies such as Citysearch CommQuest Total Entertainment Network Vastera and Vixel. Before joining Montgomery Rob was with Smith Barney in the New York and San Francisco Corporate Finance Departments. Rob received a B.A. degree from Williams College and a M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and currently serves as an algebra tutor at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto California.

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