Event
Whiting-Turner Business & Entrepreneurial Lecture: Harry Weller, NEA General Partner
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
5:00 p.m.
Kay Boardroom, 1111 Kim Engineering Building
Pamela Morse
pmorse@umd.edu
http://go.umd.edu/WellerWT2016
Biography
Harry Weller is the leader of New Enterprise Associates (NEA) east coast venture practice and he is also a founder of NEA's China organization. Weller has been recognized as one of America's top ventures capitalists with honors including the Forbes "Media List," where he is among six investors named to the list since inception, Washingtonian's "Titans of Technology," Business Insider's "Top 5 East Coast VCs" and Washington Business Journal's "Outstanding Board Director Award" and "Power 100 Business Leaders." He is also a co-founder of Harvard University's Experiment Fund and an Expert in Residence at Harvard.
NEA is one of the world's largest and most active venture capital firms. NEA has developed deep domain expertise and insight into their industries of focus.
Some of Weller's past investments include Cvent (NYSE: CVT), Echo Global (NASDAQ: ECHO), Eloqua (NASDAQ: ELOQ, acquired by Oracle), GlobalLogic (acquired by Apax), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), Merlin Securities (acquired by Wells Fargo), OPower (NYSE: OPWR), Pentaho (acquired by Hitachi), Riverbed Technologies (acquired by Aether Systems), SourceFire (NASDAQ: FIRE, acquired by Cisco), Vertica (acquired by Hewlett Packard), Vonage (NYSE: VG) and webMethods (NASDAQ: WEBM, acquired by Software AG).
Weller received his Bachelor of Arts/Science at Duke University and his Master of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two children.
