Bay Partners

Bob Williams is a General Partner with Bay Partners, an early stage Venture Capital firm located in Silicon Valley managing $1B in funds being invested across a portfolio of high technology companies. Bob joined Bay in 1997. His primary area of investment interest is enterprise infrastructure hardware and software. He has also made investments in electronic design automation, carrier networking, and wireless. His past deals include WebLogic (NASDAQ:BEAS) and SonicWall (NASDAQ:SNWL). Prior to joining Bay, Bob was an entrepreneur for over 20 years. He helped to found and grow four successful startup companies in enterprise software and networking. Bob held senior executive positions in Marketing and Business Development at Ingres, Verity, and NetManage all of which became publicly traded companies. Bob holds an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

John Freidenrich is Partner Emeritus of Bay. John founded Bay Partners in 1976 and led the firm for over a quarter century. Beginning his career as a lawyer, John founded the law firm of Ware & Freidenrich in 1968. Now called Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich, it remains one of Silicon Valleya s preeminent firms serving the technology community. John has been closely involved with Stanford University, where he served as a member of the Board of Trustees for a decade and Chairman of the Board for four years in the mid-1990s. John is currently Chairman of the Board, Packard Children's Hospital, and Director of Stanford Hospital and Clinics.