Glenn Goldberg

Prior to the Inventures Group, Mr. Goldberg served as the Executive Search Partner at Crosspoint Ventures.
Prior to that, he worked with a number of top tier VCs in a broad range of executive search assignments.
Mr. Goldberg started his career as an R & D engineer working for Hewlett Packard including a year of expatriate assignments implementing his designs at off-shore manufacturing facilities in Singapore and Brazil.
His first management assignment brought him to Silicon Valley, managing manufacturing engineering for start-up company Fortune Systems.
In 1984, he was hired by British networking company BICC Data Networks to establish US operations here in California with responsibility for manufacturing and sales of the world’s first IEEE 802.3 compliant Ethernet components.
In 1986, he was recruited by 3Com to manage implementation of “Ethernet over twisted pair” which evolved into the now ubiquitous 10BaseT LAN marketplace.
Later assignments included OEM Sales, Regional Sales Manager, Director of Sales Operations, and an interim assignment as General Manager of 3Com Canada.
In 1989, Mr. Goldberg was recruited to start the sales effort at Clarity Software, a developer of horizontal applications for the Unix Workstation market.
After extensive delays in product shipment, the sales team was let go providing him with some invaluable lessons in how start-up companies can go wrong.
Starting in 1992, he spent 3 years managing the west coast office of a search firm that, under his direction, focused on start-up networking companies.
In 1995 he left the firm to pursue independent consulting.
Mr. Goldberg holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.