Roger McNamee

Roger McNamee is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners. Prior to Elevation, Roger was a co-founder of Silver Lake Partners, the leading private equity fund focused on technology and related growth industries. He was a member of Silver Lake’s Investment Committee and was involved in all aspects of that partnership. Prior to Silver Lake, Roger was a co-founder of Integral Capital Partners. Integral is a leading technology investor in late-stage venture and public company investments. Founded in 1991 by Roger, John A. Powell, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Integral pioneered the crossover investment strategy, which seeks maximum capital appreciation by making investments in expansion-stage private companies and growth-stage public companies in the technology and life science industries.

Prior to founding Integral, Roger managed the T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund and co-managed the T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, which was at that time the largest emerging growth fund in the U.S. Roger serves as a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, an overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, a director of the Rex Foundation, Move, Forbes Media LLC and Palm. Roger holds a B.A. from Yale College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. Now if all that doesn't keep him busy Roger has a passion for playing rock music and has built himself a great band ...GE smith ,Pete Sears,Barry Sless Jack Casidy,John Molo and his very lovely and talented wife Ann.together they are the band Moonalice (a band not to be missed when they come to a venue near you) when he's with the band Roger disappears and Chubby Wombat Moonalice takes over and wow this chubby guy can really sing and play guitar....he is also the chief historian for the Moonalice tribe and keeps everyone updated to the tribes legends in 2009 chubby and GE launched a campaign to save GE's favorite beverage Howling Monkey and were successful in getting it to be made again only they didn't put it up for sale instead they give it away for free at all their concerts.