
Mark received his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and executive MBA from ASU.

Thomas received his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.



Prior to joining NEA, Colin spent 12 years at Paladin Capital Group, where he was responsible for investments in Royalty Pharma (NASDAQ: RPRX) and Cogent Communications (NASDAQ: CCOI). Prior to Paladin, Colin was a founding member of The Vigilant Investors Fund, a hedge fund in Santa Monica, California. Colin received his B.A. degree in Philosophy from Haverford College.

Jai is currently a member of the board (director or observer) at Catchpoint, CircleCI, Clari, DataRobot, Narrative Science, OpsRamp, PubNub, Punchh, Splashtop, ThoughtSpot, UJET, Uptycs and Verbit. He also led the firms’s investment in Netskope. Prior to joining Sapphire Ventures in 2006, Jai worked at Oracle, Intel Capital, Agilent Ventures, and MVC Capital. He has a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Brown University and an MBA from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Yael also currently serves on the board of Poly (NYSE: PLT), formerly Plantronics and Polycom. She holds an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a B.S. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.