Russell Siegelman

Who is Russell Siegelman?

As a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Russell invests

in consumer and energy related technologies and markets, including

software, electronic commerce, Web services, semiconductors, consumer

systems, media and telecommunications. He is currently on the boards of

Digital Chocolate, Friendster, Lilliputian Systems, Mobilygen, Quorum

Systems and RazorGator.Russell

also leads KPCB's investment in WildBlue Communications, and is also on

the board of the non-profit organization Sustainable Conservation.Russell

joined KPCB after seven years at Microsoft. At Microsoft he helped

launch LAN Manager, Microsoft's first network operating system, then

was the marketing manager in charge of Windows for Workgroups, a

small-business networking version of Windows. For the first half of

1993, Russell worked directly for Bill Gates, during which time he

researched the online market and recommended an entry strategy for that

market. This led to the formation the Microsoft Network (MSN),

Microsoft's online service. Russell became the first employee of this

division and became its General Manager and then Vice President through

April of 1996. Under his direction, MSN was developed and launched and

reached over one million paying members. Russell was also responsible

for the formation of the Slate project, Microsoft's World Wide Web

political and arts commentary. He recruited the editor, Michael

Kinsley, and was the business manager in charge of Slate until he left

Microsoft in July 1996.Before Microsoft, Russell was a software

engineer who wrote artificial intelligence applications for the

financial services industry at Applied Expert Systems, a Cambridge,

Massachusetts startup, and was also an engineering consultant. He

earned his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Physics

in 1984 and an MBA from Harvard University where he was a Baker Scholar

in 1989.