Mr. George H. Bischof is a Managing Director at MeriTech Capital Partners. His current investments include Crossbeam Systems; EqualLogic; Exigen Group; Isilon Systems; and QuinStreet. Prior investments include Acta (acquired by BusinessObjects); Extricity (acquired by Peregrine Systems); G-Log (acquired by Oracle); and Wily (acquired by Computer Associates). Mr. Bischof spent the last eight years as a General Partner at Focus Ventures which he joined in March 2000. Prior ... to joining Charter Growth Capital, he was a Principal in Robertson Stephens' Technology Investment Banking Practice. Mr. Bischof led portions of the firm's B2B eCommerce effort on the west coast, software and hardware, and systems banking practices, and earlier ran the eBusiness Applications Group. In his eight years at Robertson Stephens, Mr. Bischof helped more than 60 companies raise over $4.5 billion in public equity offerings and private placement transactions. He also advised on numerous merger and acquisition assignments. Notable clients included BEA Systems, Bindview, Broadvision, Concur Technologies, Epiphany, Genesys Labs, i2 Technologies, JD Edwards, Peregrine Systems, Portal Software, QAD and Siebel Systems. Mr. Bischof is a Director at EqualLogic, Inc. He received a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.