| Harvard Business School and the University of Virginia, Graduate |
James Socas, a General Partner, focuses on software industry, green-tech and later stage investments. He currently sits on the board of Marshal8e6, a leading provider of Secure Internet Gateway software solutions, based in Los Angeles, California and London, UK.
Mr. Socas previously served as Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Development at Symantec, the world’s fourth largest independent software company, leading Symantec’s mergers & acquisitions practice, corporate venture investing and strategic, financial and technology alliances. He conceived, negotiated and executed Symantec’s highly publicized international joint venture with Huawei Technologies, one of China’s leading technology companies, and drove the successful billion dollar acquisition of systems management leader Altiris, as well as several other major corporate acquisitions.
