KEN PELOWSKI, MANAGING PARTNER
Ken founded Pinnacle Ventures in 2002 while working at Redpoint Ventures. Prior to Redpoint, Ken founded and was Chairman of the Board of Currenex, which was acquired by State Street for $560 million. Before Currenex, Ken was Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and a Board Director of GetThere (a Brentwood Venture Capital/USVP portfolio company) where he led its IPO as well as its $750 million acquisition by Sabre. Prior to joining GetThere, Ken was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Preview Travel (a Kleiner Perkins portfolio company), which acquired and changed its name to Travelocity. Ken led Preview’s IPO.
Before joining Preview Travel, Ken was a Corporate Vice President and Executive Committee Member at General Instruments and at Quantum Corporation where he was responsible for corporate strategy and business development. Previously, he held senior management positions in sales and marketing at Sun Microsystems and Intel. Ken led Pinnacle's current investments in Ayla Networks, Cloud9, Everlane, SilverPeak, TechStyle, Viajanet, and Grupo Xango. In the past, Ken has been involved with investments in Kabam (acq. NetMarble), Aquantia (IPO), Videology (acq), Nextbit (acq Razor), Gilt (Hudson Bay), Bluekai (acq Oracle), True [X] (acq FOX), Delivery Agent (acq), Videology (acq), Broadbus Technologies (acq Motorola), LifeSize Communications (acq Logitech), Right Media (acq Yahoo), WiChorus (acq Tellabs), ZING Systems (acq Dell), and Farecast (acq Microsoft). Ken is also a board member of several nonprofit organizations. He received a BSE in electrical engineering and an MBA from the University of Michigan. kpelowski@pinnacleventures.com |
CURRENT INVESTMENTSAyla Networks
Cloud9 Everlane Grupo Xango Just Fab/TechStyle Silverpeak Viajanet
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