Rod Randall
Senior Managing Director, Vesbridge Partners

Rod has spent over 20 years in the networking industry as an entrepreneur, senior executive and venture capitalist. Prior to forming Vesbridge, Rod was a General Partner with SPVC where he led investments including Dynamicsoft (acquired by Cisco), Bitfone and Visage Mobile. Before becoming a venture capitalist, Rod had been Chief Marketing Officer at Lucent which he joined in 1999 upon the acquisition of Ascend (by Lucent for $24 billion) where he had been the Vice President of Marketing. Prior to Ascend, Rod was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and General Manager at Stratus Computer (acquired by Ascend for $833 million) and Vice President of Strategic Market Development at Madge Networks.
 
Prior to Madge Networks, Rod was a co-founder of Teleos Communications in 1987. During the nearly 10 years Rod was building Teleos, he held several roles including CTO, Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of WAN Access Technology. Rod helped guide Teleos until its acquisition for $165 million in 1996 by Madge Networks which provided a solid return to investors on $27 million raised. Rod began his career in technology with Bell labs in 1981.
 
Education: BSEE, Georgia Tech; MS EE/CS UC Berkeley