Bernie Lacroute is a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers. He was involved in the development of the PDP-11, Ethernet
and the VAX during his thirteen years at Digital Equipment Corporation.
He was Group Manager of the Distributed Systems Group when he left DEC
to join Sun Microsystems. As Executive Vice President at Sun, Bernie
was responsible for the company's day-to-day operations during its
growth from a $4 million per...
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Bernie Lacroute is a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers. He was involved in the development of the PDP-11, Ethernet
and the VAX during his thirteen years at Digital Equipment Corporation.
He was Group Manager of the Distributed Systems Group when he left DEC
to join Sun Microsystems. As Executive Vice President at Sun, Bernie
was responsible for the company's day-to-day operations during its
growth from a $4 million per year manufacturer of technical
workstations to a $2 billion per year supplier of distributed computing
systems.
Bernie has served on the boards of Flextronics, Aptix, Calico, CellNet, Escalade, NAT Systems and Zambeel.
Bernie
holds graduate degrees in Physics from the University of Grenoble and
in Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingenieurs, as
well as an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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