I'm an Operating Partner at Emergence Capital, a leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage enterprise cloud companies. The firm's investments include Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors (acquired by SAP), Yammer (acquired by Microsoft), Veeva Systems [VEEV], Box, and Lithium. In my role at the firm, I am part of the investment team and I work with portfolio companies on strategy, talent/recruiting, marketing, analytics, introductions and other ways to help our companies. I work particularly closely with three portfolio companies as a board observer: Textio, Insightly, Handshake and Steelbrick. I also manage marketing, content, and events for Emergence. I love that my role draws from my diverse experience, from investment banking to co-founding QuickenLoans at Intuit, to being the 2nd employee at a Kleiner Perkins-backed company to writing dozens of case studies at Harvard Business School. I'm honored that I was recently named one of the "Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business" by the San Francisco Business Times.

Operating Partner @ I'm an Operating Partner at Emergence Capital, a leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage enterprise cloud companies. In my role at the firm, I am part of the investment team and I work with portfolio companies on strategy, talent/recruiting, marketing, analytics, introductions and other ways to help our companies. I work particularly closely with three portfolio companies as a board observer: Textio, Insightly, and Steelbrick. I also manage marketing, content, and events for Emergence. From March 2013 to Present (2 years 10 months) Board Observer @ Textio is a pioneering artificial intelligence platform that predicts the performance of business documents as they’re being written. Optimizing content is quick and easy thanks to a remarkably intuitive user interface that provides real-time feedback as you write. Textio Talent, the first platform application, optimizes job listings, recruiting email, and other talent content. In a short time, Textio has been widely adopted by enterprises such as Twitter and Microsoft that are looking to fill roles more quickly with qualified and diverse candidates. From November 2015 to Present (2 months) Greater Seattle AreaBoard Observer @ Insightly is the #1 small business CRM with over 500,000 users. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaBoard Observer @ Handshake is a fast-growing mobile sales order management solution. From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Greater New York City AreaBoard Observer @ Steelbrick simplifies the sales process with a cloud-based, easy-to-use configure, price, and quoting (CPQ) solution - 100% Native on Salesforce and Delivered on the Salesforce1 Mobile App From May 2014 to Present (1 year 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaExecutive Director @ I was the Executive Director of the Harvard Business School California Research Center where I worked with faculty and business leaders to develop and write case studies about Bay Area companies. I also served as a West Coast liaison for the school in areas such as admissions, career services, executive education and external relations. For the last several years I was a co-leader of the HBS Silicon Valley immersion program focused on teaching students about entrepreneurship. While in the role, I worked closely with the Harvard Innovation Lab. From October 2001 to March 2013 (11 years 6 months) Senior Vice President, Marketing & Business Development @ Joined as the #2 employee when Greenlight.com was being incubated at Kleiner Perkins. The company was started to improve the car buying experience for consumers. I was responsible for marketing, product management, and business development. Helped sell the company to Cars Direct (Internet Brands) in 2001. From August 1999 to March 2001 (1 year 8 months) Co-founder, Quicken Loans / Director of Marketing @ Wrote the original business plan for QuickenLoans in 1996. Established partnerships with lenders and developed the first several versions of the website. Established relationship with Rock Loans and laid the groundwork for the future sale of QuickenLoans to Rock. From August 1996 to August 1999 (3 years 1 month) Product Manager @ Summer Intern in the MSN Group From 1995 to 1995 (less than a year) Analyst @ Investment Banking Analyst in New York and Hong Kong. Worked in the mergers & acquisitions group. From 1991 to 1994 (3 years)

MBA, Entrepreneurship @ Harvard Business School From 1994 to 1996 BA, American Studies @ Yale University From 1988 to 1991 Choate Rosemary Hall From 1984 to 1987 Alison Wagonfeld is skilled in: Product Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Research, Business Planning, Writing, Strategic Planning, Product Management, Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Start-ups, Business Development, Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions