Tench Coxe

Tench Coxe was a managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture capital investment firm, from 1989 to 2020, where he focused on investments in the IT sector. Prior to joining Sutter Hill Ventures in 1987, he was director of marketing and MIS at Digital Communication Associates Previously, he worked with Lehman Brothers in New York City, where he was a corporate financial analyst specializing in mergers and acquisitions as well as debt and equity financing. His current directorships include Artisan Partners, eLoyalty, FaceTime Communications, Kineto Wireless, NVIDIA, PINC Solutions, RedSeal Systems, Inc., Ruckus Wireless, SeeSaw Networks, Swift Financial and Tower Cloud, Inc. He was also responsible for the firm's investment in Alteon Networks, @mobile, Avant!, Copper Mountain Networks, Edify, Legato, Lynk Systems, Network Appliance, Grand Junction, NCD, OnStream Networks, Synernetics, Primary Access, and XcelleNet. Tench graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in economics. He earned his MBA in 1984 from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business.