John Hummer

Who is John Hummer?

John has been in the venture business since 1982. John graduated from

Princeton in 1970 with an AB in English and ten years later, received

his MBA from Stanford Business School in 1980. During the interim, John

was a professional athlete, having been drafted in the first round of

the National Basketball Association’s annual college draft in 1970,

played six years and retired in 1976 from the Seattle SuperSonics.

In 1989 John founded Hummer Winblad, with Ann Winblad, soon to be

joined by Mark Gorenberg, six months later. John’s prior investments

include Octel, Wind River Systems, Powersoft (where Mitchell Kertzman

was the CEO), Extensity, Global Center (Doug Hickey was the CEO)and

Employease. He currently sits on the boards of Starmine, Baynote, and

Success Metrics.