Kevin Efrusy

Who is Kevin Efrusy?

Kevin Efrusy came to Accel Partners in 2003 and serves as a General Partner. His

background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He

served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins

Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP pioneer which went

public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as

the first CEO of IronPlanet,

an online marketplace for heavy equipment which currently sells in

excess of $170M/year of equipment. Prior to KPCB, Kevin served as a

product manager at Zip2 and a consultant at Bain Company.

Kevin invests broadly in software and internet businesses, but he

focuses on consumer internet companies, open source software, and

wireless application providers. He co-led Accel’s investment in The Facebook and Tumri, currently serves on the boards of Metacafe, Hyperic, Xensource, Terracotta, and BBN Technologies and Medio Systems. He is also actively involved in Riverbed Technology and Transera.

Kevin has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford

University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business

where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.

Click here to read Kevin's article on The Elusive Great Consumer Experience.