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| Tom Chavez |
Tom Chavez joined Accel as an Entrepreneur in Residence in October 2009 where he focuses on advising the leadership teams of the firm's digital media, advertising, and software portfolio companies while also working with the firm's partners to evaluate investment opportunities.
Tom joins Accel from Microsoft, where he served as General Manager for the Online Publisher Business Group in Microsoft's Advertiser and Publisher Solutions (APS) group. In this capacity he led the integration of publisher technologies from Microsoft's aQuantive/Atlas and Rapt acquisitions, drove Microsoft's publisher business development, partner operations, and product planning efforts across display and contextual advertising, and oversaw all of Microsoft's global media procurement for the Microsoft Media Network (MSDR and DRIVEpm).
Before Microsoft Tom was the CEO of Rapt Inc. from its founding in 1999 to its acquisition by Microsoft in April 2008. He wrote the company's original business plan focused on enterprise software for procurement and pricing optimization in the high-tech sector, and led the company's successful transformation into the leading provider of software and services for online monetization.
Before Rapt Tom worked as a systems architect at Sun Microsystems and as a researcher at the Rockwell Palo Alto Science Lab in probabilistic reasoning, decision-making under uncertainty, and optimization. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Philosophy from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford. He resides in San Francisco with his wife and two children.
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