Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 4
Number of Founded Organizations 2
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner
  • Investor Stage  Seed

Kenneth Pelowski is the Board Member at Cobalt Technologies Inc. Ken founded Pinnacle Ventures while working at Redpoint Ventures.

Prior to Redpoint, Ken founded and was Chairman of the Board of Currenex, which was acquired by State Street for $560 million.

Prior to Currenex, Ken was Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and a

Board member of GetThere (a Brentwood Venture Capital/USVP portfolio company), where he led its IPO as well as its $750 million acquisition by Sabre.

Prior to joining GetThere, Ken was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Preview Travel (a Kleiner Perkins portfolio company), which acquired and changed its name to Travelocity. Ken led Preview’s IPO.

Before joining Preview Travel, Ken was a Corporate Vice President and Executive Committee Member at General Instruments and at Quantum Corporation where he was responsible for corporate strategy and business development.

Previously, he held senior management positions in sales and marketing at Sun Microsystems and Intel.

He currently is a board member on several privately held companies and nonprofit organizations.

He received a BSE in electrical engineering. An MBA from the University of Michigan.

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 7
Kenneth Pelowski is the Founder and Managing Partner at Pinnacle Ventures. Additionally, Kenneth Pelowski has had 7 past jobs including Founder at Currenex.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Currenex
Founder
Quantum
Corporate Vice President & Executive Committee Member
Preview Travel
Executive Vice President & CFO
GetThere
CEO & CFO
Sun Microsystems
Senior Management Positions, Sales & Marketing
General Instrument
Corporate Vice President & Executive Committee Member
Intel
Senior Management Positions, Sales & Marketing
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 4
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 2
Kenneth Pelowski holds 4 board and advisor roles including Member of Board of Directors at WiChorus, Member of Board of Directors at Cobalt Technologies, and Member of Board of Directors at Kabam.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Currenex
Chairman of the Board
GetThere
Member of Board of Directors
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