Bernard Dalle
| Bernard Dalle | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 8, 1967 Kreuzlingen, Switzerland |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Swiss |
| 🎓 Alma mater | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Kellogg School of Management |
| 💼 Occupation | Venture capitalist and investor, Index Ventures |
Bernard Dalle July 8, 1967 is the Operating Partner at Index Ventures,[1] a global venture capital firm with offices in London, Geneva, Jersey (Channel Islands), and San Francisco. Dalle oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm. In his previous role as a technology investor, Dalle’s specific sector focus was on cloud, Software as a Service (SaaS), and infrastructure.[2]
Early life and education[edit]
Dalle was born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland and raised in Rabat, Morocco. He received a Master’s degee in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, English: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) in Switzerland in 1990, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1996.[3]
Career[edit]
Before his MBA, Dalle worked for four years with Procter & Gamble (P&G) in IT and Finance. At P&G he implemented enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.[1] After his MBA, Dalle worked for McKinsey & Company in Zurich for 15 months.[1] In 1997 Dalle joined Index Ventures in Geneva, one year after the company’s founding.[1] At Index Ventures Dalle has invested in a number of different companies and served on the Boards of Directors of a variety of firms, including Assistly (sold to Salesforce.com);[4] B-hive (sold to VMware);[5] DimDim (sold to Salesforce.com);[6] FilesX (sold to IBM);[7] Gluster (sold to RedHat for $136 million);[8] and Worklight (sold to IBM).[9]
Dalle currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Base CRM, Mimecast, OpenX, Optier, and Pentaho.[3][2]
Personal life[edit]
Dalle lives in Geneva, Switzerland with his wife and 3 children.[3]
External links[edit]
- Index Ventures website
- Bernard Dalle on Index Ventures blog
- Bernard Dalle on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "MediaGuardian 100 2012". Computer World. June 10, 2008. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Open source: the money is in the cloud". CNET. December 9, 2009.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Bernard Dalle bio".
- ↑ "Salesforce buys social customer services SAAS startup Assistly for $50 million in cash". TechCrunch. April 25, 2010.
- ↑ "VMWare Buys B-Hive for Performance Scans". GigaOM. April 28, 2008.
- ↑ "Salesforce Buys Web Conferencing Platform DimDim For $31 Million In Cash". TechCrunch. January 6, 2011.
- ↑ "IBM acquires FilesX for reported $70-90M". Venture Beat. April 10, 2008.
- ↑ "Red Hat Expands Storage Portfolio With Gluster Acquisition". InformationWeek. October 5, 2011.
- ↑ "IBM Buys HTML5 App Development Company WorkLight For $70M To Expand Mobile Enterprise Services". Tech Crunch. January 31, 2012.
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