Key Speakers

Greg Sands focuses on internet software and services. He looks for complex and scalable software, important business functions the internet can revolutionize or replace, and high margin, defensible business models.

Greg Sands joined Sutter Hill Ventures in 1998 from Netscape Communications. As the company's original product manager, he co-authored the company's original business plan and launched and shipped its initial products, working closely with both engineering and sales. He then created and led the SuiteSpot business unit, growing it from $0 to $150M. He also worked previously at Cisco Systems, where he was the architect of a global channel management plan, and at Corporate Decisions (now Mercer Management Consulting), where he consulted to start-ups and Fortune 500 companies on product development and marketing strategies.

Greg serves as a director for Merced Systems, QuinStreet, Return Path and Valista. Greg is also responsible for Sutter Hill's investment in Feedburner. Prior investments include Closed Loop (subsequently sold to Lawson Software).

Greg is a trustee of the Stanford University DAPER Fund. He also co-founded, and is a director of the non-profit Start Up, a microenterprise program for entrepreneurs and small business owners in underprivileged communities. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Stanford Business School Trust.

He earned an AB in government from Harvard College in 1989 and received an MBA at Stanford in 1994.