Eric Wolford

Eric joined Accel, a venture capital firm that works with startups in seed, early, and growth-stage investments, in 2014. There he focuses on enterprise infrastructure companies and uses his infrastructure and IT experience to work with founders across the enterprise stack – from next-gen analytics platforms like Jut to emerging cloud security and threat detection companies like Netskope and Vectra. Eric also co-leads the Accel Tech Council. Before Accel, Eric spent many years in various product and management roles at FastForward Networks, Inktomi, and most recently, at Riverbed, where he was President of the products group. He oversaw the growth of Riverbed’s flagship WAN optimization and app acceleration platforms, which grew to be a USD $1 billion+ business.