Primary Job Title Managing Director Primary Organization Sutter Hill Ventures
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Tench Coxe focuses his investments in telecommunications hardware, application software, semiconductors, and payment infrastructure.
Tench joined the firm in 1987 following his tenure with Digital Communications Associates in Atlanta, where he managed T-1 products and directed internal MIS and marketing. Previously, he worked with Lehman
Brothers in New York City, where he was a corporate financial analyst specializing in mergers and acquisitions as well as debt and equity financing.
His current directorships include Actiance, Artisan Partners, Mattersight, NVIDIA, PINC Solutions, RedSeal Networks, Inc., Swift Financial and Tower Cloud, Inc.
He was also responsible for the firm's investment in Alteon Networks, Aruba Networks, Inc., @mobile, Avant!, Clarus, Copper Mountain Networks, Edify, Legato, Lifesize, Lynk Systems, Network Appliance, Grand Junction, NCD, OnStream Networks, Ruckus Wireless, Symmetricom, Synernetics, Primary Access, WildCard Systems, and XcelleNet.
Tench graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in economics. He earned his MBA in 1984 from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business.
