Bruce Sachs

Bruce Sachs joined CRV in 1999, after twenty years of experience in the telecommunications, networking, Internet and computing industries. Sachs started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories and then as a director of engineering at Memotec/Infinet. He joined publicly held Xylogics as director of engineering in 1989 and ultimately became chief executive officer. Sachs led the company through a dramatic reformulation of strategy and repositioning, and in 1995 sold Xylogics to Bay Networks. Sachs went on to serve as an executive vice president of Bay Networks. After leaving Bay Networks in 1997,Sachs joined publicly held Stratus Computer as president and CEO. At Stratus, Sachs led the repositioning of the company to focus on telecom software and services in addition to its traditional computing foundation. The Stratus Computer turnaround led to its acquisition by Ascend Communications in October 1998. Sachs was then tapped as executive vice president and general manager of Ascend’s Carrier Signaling and Management Group, and stayed on briefly as a consultant at Lucent Technologies upon its acquisition of Ascend.

Bruce’s current investments at CRV include SimpliVity (enterprise storage), DataGravity (enterprise storage), OneCloud (enterprise storage), Jibo (stealth mode), SpiderCloud (mobile infrastructure), CarrierIQ (analytics for wireless carriers), iControl (online household monitoring services), Nantero (memory chip technology licensing), and Great Call (consumer mobile health and safety solutions). In addition, Sachs managed CRV’s investments in BNI Video (sold to Cisco in 2011) Acopia (sold to F5 in 2007), BigBand (IPO 2007), Flarion Technologies (sold to Qualcomm in 2006), RiverDelta Networks (sold to Motorola in 2001) and Hammerhead Networks (sold to Cisco Systems in 2002). He also serves on the board of publicly held Vertex Pharmaceuticals.