Roger McNamee
Roger McNamee is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media, entertainment, and consumer technology. McNamee is an investor and venture capitalist with over 35 years of experience investing in the technology industry. He co-founded successful funds in venture, crossover and private equity. He began his career at T. Rowe Price, where he managed the top performing Science & Technology Fund and co-managed their New Horizons Fund. He also helped launch Integral Capital Partners, a partnership with venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers that pioneered the crossover investment strategy. In 1999, he co-founded Silver Lake Partners, the first private equity fund focused on technology companies. McNamee is the author of Zucked and The New Normal.
Roger McNamee Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Analyst
Academic History
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Master of Business Administration (MBA)
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B.A., History
TMT CAREER
Elevation Partners counts U2 frontman Bono as one of its co-founders and managing directors, as well as Fred Anderson, a former Apple chief financial officer.
He has served as a technical advisor for seasons two through five of HBO's "Silicon Valley" series and was also responsible for raising the money that created the Wikimedia Foundation.
He was an early investor in Facebook and served as a mentor to Mark Zuckerberg from 2006 to 2009.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Co-Founder, Haight Street Art Center
Co-Founder, Center for Counterculture Studies
Board of Directors, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum
Advisory Board Member, Open Markets Institute
Advisory Board Member, Electronic Privacy Information Center
MUSIC CAREER
McNamee performs up to 100 concerts a year in the bands Moonalice and Doobie Decibel System, in which he plays bass and guitar.
Moonalice pioneered the use of social media in music, inventing such applications as Twittercast concerts, Moonalice Radio on Twitter, live Moontunes video streams of concerts, and the Moonalice Couch Tour.
He holds a U.S. patent related to MoonTunes and the live broadcast of video to mobile devices.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
McNamee is a regular guest on “Squawk Alley” CNBC and on Ali Velshi’s show on MSNBC.
He has also been featured or quoted in Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, WIRED, and The Guardian.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.