Roland Osborne

Roland Osborne is the current Principal at 500 Global. Roland has also been an Entrepreneur in Residence at Swisscontact worldwide and VP Product and Cofounder at Olark. Roland has also been a Cofounder at Hab.la and an Intern at MTV Networks International. Roland is also a musician, having been a part of the band Paperface from 2000 to 2005, and a VP/Web Developer at Nethernet Corporation from 1998 to 2009.

Roland Osborne attended the University of Virginia, where they studied economics and earned a BA. Roland then went on to attend Y Combinator, where they studied entre.

Roland Osborne reports to Amit Bhatti, Principal, Investments. They are on a team with Yingjie Wang - Associate, Clayton Bryan - Partner, and Harrison Hao Shian Chong - Investment Data Analyst.