Director
Krishna “Kittu” Kolluri
Kittu joined NEA in 2006 as a General Partner and focuses on information technology investments.
Present NEA board memberships include OANDA, NEA-IndoUS Ventures, Novatium, RingCube Technologies, SnapTell, and Teracent.
Formerly, Kittu was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Security Products Group at Juniper Networks, a position he assumed following Juniper’s acquisition of NetScreen Technologies.
At NetScreen, he was General Manager of Secure Access Products, a position he assumed following NetScreen’s acquisition of Neoteris, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Kittu brings more than 17 years of experience at the leading edge of the technology industry.
He co-founded Healtheon/WebMD, introducing online healthcare to the market. Before co-founding Healtheon/WebMD, Kittu worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) managing high profile Interactive TV projects.
Kittu holds a B.
Director
Ron Bernal
Ron is an entrepreneur and business executive who spent the first 24 years of his career in the high-technology operating world and the last 11 years as a venture capitalist. He joined NEA in 2010 as a Venture Partner and focuses on information and energy technology investments.
He currently serves on the boards of Boulder Wind Power, Cohere Technologies, Gainspeed, Ketra, Kumu Networks, Leyden Energy and Solidfire and works closely with HelioVolt and Blue Jeans Network.
Previous board memberships include Data Domain (acquired by EMC), Drobo (merged with Connected Data) HelioVolt, LifeSize (acquired by Logitech), Indicative (acquired by Nimsoft), Nicira (acquired by VMware), ProStor (acquired by Imation and Tandberg) and Redseal Systems.
Prior to NEA, Ron was a Partner at Sequel Venture Partners and led the firm’s investments in HelioVolt and Buzzwire.