Kevin Efrusy

Kevin joined Accel in 2003. He was primarily an entrepreneur and chief operating officer. He worked twice as a resident entrepreneur at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, where he founded Corio, an ASP/SaaS pioneer that went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. He later became the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online heavy equipment marketplace with current annual gross sales of more than $200 million. Prior to KPCB, Kevin was a product manager at Zip2 and a consultant at Bain & Company. Kevin focuses primarily on two areas for investment: consumer internet services and SAAS/open source software. In consumer services, he was Accel’s investment coordinator at Facebook and led Accel’s investments in Metacafe, Medio Systems, Mig33, Tumri and EveryZing. In SaaS/open source software, he has led investments or served on the boards of Xensource (acquired by Citrix), Genius, SpringSource, Hyperic, Terracotta and Aptana. He also currently serves on the board of directors of BBN Technologies and is active in Riverbed Technology and Transera. Kevin received his MSEE, BSEE, and B.S. degrees in Economics from Stanford University, and his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Fellow. Click here to read Kevin’s article “Software and Saas Consumerization and the Elusive Great Consumer Experience” and his profile in the San Jose Mercury News “[Five Hot Silicon Valley Venture Investors Under 40” (http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5873542).