Rama Sekhar

Rama focuses on early to late stage venture investments in enterprise and infrastructure including cloud, big data, DevOps, cybersecurity and networking. Rama’s current investments include Agari, Algorithmia, Bitglass, ClearDATA, Dremio, Fungible, Harness, InfluxData, and Productiv. Rama was previously an investor in Morta Security (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Pertino Networks (acquired by Cradlepoint), Exablox (acquired by StorageCraft), TRUSTID (acquired by Neustar), and Qubole (acquired by Idera).

Before joining Norwest in 2009, Rama was with Comcast Ventures, where he focused on investment opportunities in the enterprise and infrastructure sectors. Prior to Comcast Ventures, Rama was a product manager at Cisco Systems, where he defined product strategy for the GSR 12000 Series and CRS-1 routers, $1B+ networking products in the carrier and data center markets. Previously, Rama was a sales engineer at Cisco Systems where he sold networking and security products to AT&T.

Rama holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in finance and entrepreneurial management and a bachelor of science degree in electrical and computer engineering, with high honors, from Rutgers University.