Peter Nieh

Who is Peter Nieh?

Peter is a founding partner of

Lightspeed, covering the areas of cleantech, software, and the

internet. He has twelve years of venture capital experience and seven

years of operating experience.

Prior to Lightspeed, Peter worked in business development and product

marketing at General Magic, a startup which before the emergence of the

Web pioneered the development of e-commerce and electronic media

services by partnering with the world's largest telecommunications

service providers and consumer electronics companies. He also managed

Acer's portable PC business in North America, where he launched the

company's first laptop and notebook PCs. Before Acer, Peter was a

strategy consultant at Bain Company where he worked predominately

with high-technology clients on product and sales distribution

strategies. While an undergraduate at Stanford, he worked at Apple

Computer where he helped to develop the power management system for

Apple's first portable computer.

Peter holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, an AB in Economics, and an MBA from Stanford University.