David Beisel Vice President Office: Cambridge Email David Education AB, Economics, Duke University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business

David joined Venrock in 2007, and was previously a principal at Masthead Venture Partners in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  While at Masthead, he helped lead an investment in Expo TV, and was an integral member of the investment team for Tremor Media, Intercasting, TripConnect, and NewsGator.  Prior to joining Masthead, he co-founded Sombasa Media, an e-mail marketing company which was successfully acquired and subsequently became the About Direct division of Primedia (NYSE: PRM). As Vice President of Marketing at Primedia, David led the marketing group responsible for the company's e-mail newsletter product suite, managed the division's customer relationship operations, and coordinated related business development activities. In addition, he has worked as a management consultant at The Parthenon Group and in product management at Adobe Systems.  He is also the founder of the Boston Web Innovators Group and blogs at www.GenuineVC.com.

"As an entrepreneur, I can relate to the challenges that startup leaders face, especially in the digital media space.  At Venrock, we work with an entrepreneur's company – not in it – to build a meaningful endeavour." 

“In our current era of plentiful capital, the relationship between investor and entrepreneur is measured by non-monetary drivers, and at the top of the list is shared vision. We are happy to have David on our investment team.  He has shared our vision from the beginning and is now participating in our B round at Venrock as a member of a team that has shown its ability to share winning entrepreneurial vision.”
Shawn Conahan, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, InterCasting Corp.