Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization Accel
Location St. Helena, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Individual/Angel Investor Stage Seed
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Joe Schoendorf has been active in high technology industries for nearly forty years.
Joe is a member and strategic partner of the World Economic Forum and has served as a consultant to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in Japan. He is able to help our portfolio management establish significant strategic global relationships
in the US, Europe, and Asia with a strong focus on China and Japan. Joe has participated as a Board member in industry pioneers such as Macromedia (Authorware).
Joe joined Accel in 1988. Previously he was the Vice President of Marketing for Apple Computer. Before that, he was Executive Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Ungermann-Bass and a member of the Office of the President. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Industrial Networking, a joint venture of Ungermann-Bass and General Electric.
Joe came to Silicon Valley in 1966. During an eighteen-year career at Hewlett Packard, he held numerous computer marketing and sales positions including Group Marketing Manager, General Manager of Business Development, and General Manager of the Corporate Account Division overseeing all worldwide large accounts.
Joe holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University and has served on the Dean's Advisory Council at Purdue's Krannert School of Business.