Eric Gonzales

Who is Eric Gonzales?

Eric co-founded Ujogo in mid-2006 with Steven Sheinfield and Doug

Sheppard. Eric was previously a General Partner at DCM - Doll Capital

Management, an early-stage focused venture capital firm based on the

Silicon Valley, with $1.5B under management. At DCM, he sourced,

invested in and served as a board member for several startup companies

in the communications and internet spaces, in the US and in China.

Before joining DCM in early 2000, Eric held multiple product management

roles for five years at Cisco, where he was an early VoIP evangelist

and launched some of Cisco's most successful networking products. In

addition to Ujogo, Eric currently serves on the boards of Coradiant, a

venture-backed network appliance company, The Presidio Fund, a mutual

fund based in San Francisco, and Walden House, California's leading

non-profit provider of residential substance abuse treatment services.

Eric received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard and an MBA from

Stanford. Eric learned poker at age six and grew up near the infamous

poker rooms in Gardena, California, and he is also a competitive

backgammon player and former chess master.