Forest Baskett

Forest joined New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 1999 as a Venture Partner and became a General Partner in 2004. At NEA he focuses on information technology investments and serves on the Board of Directors for several private companies. Before NEA, Forest was Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI). He founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation before joining SGI. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and was involved in the design of the original Sun workstation. Dr. Baskett received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.