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 o...
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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.
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