Bid now for a Power Lunch with Wesley Chan, Managing Director at Felicis Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most iconic venture capital firms focused on backing innovative companies and reinventing markets. Proceeds from this bid go to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, which envisions a world free of MS, a cause close to the hearts of Wesley, his family and friends. To learn more, go to www.nationalmssociety.org.
As an early employee at Google, Wesley founded and launched Google Analytics and Google Voice, which reach tens of millions of users worldwide. He is a recipient of Google’s Founders Award–the company’s most prestigious recognition–for leading the development of Google’s early client efforts, which led to the development of Google Chrome. Wesley is an inventor with 15 US Patents, many from his work on building Google’s early advertising products.
Wesley was selected as a “Top 35 Under 35” innovator by Technology Review magazine in 2010. He has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and his story as an early product innovator at Google is covered by Steven Levy’s Google Book, “In The Plex.”
As Managing Director at Felicis Ventures, Wesley has led investment rounds and holds board or observer seats in Canva, CultureAmp and Switch Communications. He was previously a General Partner at Google Ventures, where he led investment rounds and held board or observer seats in Angelist, Crittericism, iPerian (exited to Bristol Myers-Squibb), Cool Planet Energy Systems, and Switch Communications. Wesley also led investments in Optimizely, Vungle, DataPad (exited to Cloudera), Freshplum (exited to TellApart), Namo Media (exited to Twitter), and Parse (exited to Facebook).
Additionally, Wesley has held technical positions both at HP Labs and Microsoft. He holds both Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT where he completed his graduate research at the Media Laboratory.
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