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Andy was a General Partner of Benchmark Capital from its inception in 1995 until 2004, at which time he joined the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business to teach a variety of courses on entrepreneurship.  In addition to his teaching responsibilities at Stanford, he serves as trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, the Chairman of the board of overseers for its School of Engineering and Applied Science and a member of its endowment investment committee.  He sits on the board of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation with whom he partnered on a new award to provide funding for early career investigators to conduct high risk/high reward research to significantly impact the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.  He is also the Chairman and co-founder of kaChing.com.

Prior to his ten years as a general partner at Benchmark Capital, Andy spent ten years as a general partner with Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre (MPAE). Before joining MPAE, Andy held a variety of positions in the investment industry, working as an associate at Harvest Ventures; as a portfolio manager at Lamoreaux, Glynn & Associates; and as a financial analyst at Blyth Eastman Paine Webber.

Investments:  Abrizio (acquired by PMC-Sierra), America Online, Blue Coat Systems, Blue Lane Technologies, C-Port (acquired by Motorola), Epigram (acquired by Broadcom), Equinix, Juniper Networks, Legato Systems (acquired by EMC), Opsware, Shasta Networks (acquired by Nortel Networks), and Silver Peak.

Education:  MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1984; and a BS from the University of Pennsylvania, 1980.