Mr Eric Archambeau

KANDO id: 22619

Bio

Joined Wellington as a General Partner in early 2005 focusing on Digital Media, Electronics and Software. From 2000 to 2002, was at Benchmark Capital where he lead and co-lead a number of deals including Betfair, Orchestria, Xignal and Activiti (now Alfresco), as well as pioneering an active Entrepreneur in Residence programme in London. Joined Benchmark from Atlas Venture where, in Silicon Valley, he worked with companies including Tsqware (acquired by Globespan) and Obongo (acquired by AOL). Co-founder and CEO of RightPoint, a provider of marketing automation enterprise software (acquired by e.piphany). Founding CEO of Trading Dynamics (acquired by Ariba). In the 1980s worked in the semiconductor and EDA industry in Silicon Valley, most notably with VLSI Technology Inc. One of the founders of Social-Impact, a professional development programme helping social entrepreneurs worldwide to increase their social impact and reach their full potential. He also lectured at INSEAD where he founded the Social Entrepreneurship department. Founding board member of eGroups, acquired by Yahoo! in 2000. MBA from Santa Clara University. MSME from the University of California at Berkeley. Engineer degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. PhD in Computer Science from Grenoble University.