Paul Holland

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Mr. Paul Holland serves as Chairman, Venture Investing & Shift AI Board Member at Mach49. Mr. Holland is an Angel Investor. He served as a General Partner at Foundation Capital. He also served as General Partner in Residence at Xerox Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at PeerSpace. He also serves as a Board Member at the 2nd Address. He serves as a Chairman at CalStar Products, he served as Board Member at Respond Software. He also serves as Strategic Advisor at Convivialité Ventures. He serves as General Partner in Residence at TDK Ventures. He helped take public two venture-funded software start-ups, Kana Communications (KANA), and Pure Software (RATL). He currently serves on the board of directors for Averai, Coverity, and Skycure, and; previously for Talking Blocks (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), RouteScience (acquired by Avaya), TuVox (acquired by West), and Ketera (acquired by Rearden Commerce). He served as a Board Member at Kik (Application Software). He is an active board observer at Assemblage, Blend, and MobileIron. Prior to joining Foundation Capital, was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Kana Communications, a leading supplier of Enterprise Relationship Management solutions to strategic e-businesses. He helped Kana become one of the top ten IPOs of 1999. Before Kana, he was a vice president and general manager for another highly successful start-up, Pure Software. He began his professional career at SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute). He received an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley an MA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and a BS from James Madison University. He served as a Board Member at Mya Systems.