Primary Job Title Founding Partner, Advisor Primary Organization 
Windspeed Ventures
Gender Male
Bern is a founding partner of Windspeed Ventures. Bern currently serves as an advisor to the firm and has over 15 years of experience as a development manager and programmer. He was engineering manager for the Office and Consumer Group at Avid Technology. Bern also co-founded and served as vice president of engineering at Accordance Corporation,
which later merged with Software.com. Prior to Software.com, Bern was a development manager in the R&D division of Siemens Nixdorf. He started his career at the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) at Brown University. There he developed Intermedia, a fully functional hypermedia system used in university courses before the advent of the web. He holds a BS in computer science from Brown University.
