Jerry Held

Jerry Held, Ph.D, has been a successful entrepreneur, executive and investor in Silicon Valley for over 40 years. He has been involved in managing all growth stages of companies from conception to multi-billion dollar global enterprises. He is currently chairman of Tamr and Madaket Health and serves on the boards of Informatica, NetApp (NTAP) and Copia Global. He served as executive chairman of MemSQL and Vertica Systems (acquired by HP) and was lead independent director of Business Objects (acquired by SAP).