I'm a Partner at Greylock Partners, investing in consumer internet and enterprise software companies. My investments for Greylock include Dropbox, Instagram, Tumblr, ClearSlide, MessageMe and Citrus Lane. I've spent virtually my whole career in high technology (both software and hardware), with a particular focus on startups. Huge focus over the last 5 years at getting companies up and running from scratch, including Reactivity, Zaplet & CenterRun, as well as scaling Mozilla into one of the largest software distributors on the planet.

Partner @ Greylock partners with entrepreneurs to build market-transforming companies. Current Greylock portfolio includes companies like Linkedin, Facebook, Workday, Digg, Cloudera, Oodle, Kongregate, Pandora, and Zipcar. I've led our investments in Tumblr, Instagram, Dropbox, ClearSlide, MessageMe and Citrus Lane since joining. From January 2011 to Present (5 years) Board of Advisors @ For more than 15 years, STVP has been teaching and developing entrepreneurs at Stanford, and I get involved in advising from time to time. From September 2010 to Present (5 years 4 months) Consulting Assistant Professor & Lecturer @ Consulting Assistant Professor in the d.school (Institute of Design in the Engineering School) From May 2008 to Present (7 years 8 months) Member, Board of Directors @ From July 2006 to March 2014 (7 years 9 months) CEO @ From January 2008 to November 2010 (2 years 11 months) Board of Directors @ From August 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 6 months) Member, Board of Trustees @ Advise the Sunnyvale City Council on issues relating to the Public Library. From June 2005 to June 2009 (4 years 1 month) Member, Board of Directors @ At Mitch Kapor's Open Source Applications Foundation (http://www.osafoundation.org), we're working to reinvent personal information managers and the way that open source projects get built. From January 2001 to November 2008 (7 years 11 months) Chief Operating Officer & Member, Board of Directors @ From July 2005 to December 2007 (2 years 6 months) CTO, VP Products, Board of Directors & Founder @ - Drove product strategy and roadmap through first 4 releases - Ran technical sales for the company – significant responsibility for closing early customers - Hired and managed team of seven people for pre-sales, post-sales and product management - Wrote majority of white papers, presentations, technical collateral - Created services organization and ran first several implementations - Major role in fundraising $6M and $10M rounds From January 2001 to December 2004 (4 years) Member, Board of Directors @ Was a board member for CenterRun, a Sequoia Capital backed startup that focused on application provisioning for enterprise data centers. CenterRun was acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 2003. From June 2000 to June 2003 (3 years 1 month) CEO, Board of Directors & Founder @ During this time, Reactivity was a technology incubator, specializing in building first products and teams for hi-tech companies. Our more than 80 clients included Nuance, MetalSite, ChemDex, and Epinions. During this period, we also performed R&D and team building to start our own companies from scratch, two of which we successfully spun out: Zaplet Inc. (backed by KPCB), and CenterRun Inc. (backed by Sequoia Capital and recently acquired by Sun Microsystems). - Ran the new ventures creation side of the business - Significant involvement in creating and spinning out Zaplet and CenterRun - Managed operations for the company from inception through $2.5M consulting revenue in CY2000 - Actively involved in staffing, including running the process for hiring CEO successor - Ran Series A fundraise for $23M from Accel, Austin Ventures and Maveron From January 1998 to December 2000 (3 years) Senior Scientist @ Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology excelled in user experience research; the group that I was in focused on end-user authoring, allowing “normal people” to create content (and share it with peers, family, etc. over both proprietary networks and the Internet). - One of the youngest ever to hold Senior Scientist title - Work resulted in two U.S. patents for application server style technology - Performed research and early implementations of online communities From January 1997 to December 1997 (1 year) Director of Design @ When I arrived, Trilogy had many customers but a large level of frustration with Trilogy's product's user interfaces. I created a new Design Group to address this need, and put into place a methodology and team that resulted in measurable new sales for the company and increased customer satisfaction. - Created and managed the Design Group – one of the first design groups in the enterprise software sector - Responsibility for redesigning the user interfaces across company’s product lines - Personally worked on projects with largest customers including Boeing, HP & Haworth - Developed and shipped several new products - Was member of Trilogy’s executive staff From June 1995 to December 1996 (1 year 7 months)

MS, Computer Science @ Stanford University From 1993 to 1995 BS, Computer Systems Engineering @ Stanford University From 1989 to 1993 John Lilly is skilled in: Security, Mobile Applications, Interaction Design, Venture Capital, Mobile Internet, Leadership, Technology Management, Seed Capital, Data Visualization, Open Source, User Experience, Product Management, Business Development, User Interface Design, Scalability