James Slavet

Who is James Slavet?

James Slavet joined Greylock in 2006. His areas of focus include:

consumer internet, mobile, and technology-assisted marketing services.

James has an extensive background as an entrepreneur and general

manager in the software, Internet and media industries. Most recently,

he worked at Yahoo!, as vice president/general manager of the travel

and automotive businesses. Travel and automotive are two of the largest

online verticals in the U.S., and James was responsible for leading the

growth of these two businesses for the company.Prior to Yahoo!, he

served in key product management, marketing, business development and

general management roles in several startup ventures, He was

founder/chief operating officer of Guru, an online recruitment company,

through its merger with Unicru; a launch team member of online consumer

health company Drugstore.com; and the manager of new business ventures

for the pioneering internet/media company Wired, which was acquired by

Conde Nast and Lycos. James also worked as a strategy consultant at

Monitor Company.

He holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.