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Atri Chatterjee, Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Atri is currently an EIR at Foundation Capital focusing on opportunities created by the new paradigm of Software as a Service (SaaS) changing the development, deployment and business model of IT infrastructure. He has over 20 years of experience in marketing, product management, business development and engineering at high growth innovative companies, ranging from entrepreneurial start-up ventures to category leading public companies. He has also worked with both consumer and enterprise software products.

Most recently, Atri was Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Network Security Business at McAfee Inc. (NYSE: MFE). Prior to that he was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR) until its purchase by McAfee in November 2008. Secure Computing lead the market for gateway security products targeted at high assurance enterprise networks.

Atri was also a founding executive at Responsys, one of the pioneers in SaaS (funded by Foundation Capital), and has held engineering, marketing and executive positions at several leading companies including Network Associates (McAfee.com), Netscape Communications, Clarify Inc. and GO Corporation. He has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and BS and MS degrees in computer science from Washington State University.

He lives in San Francisco and loves the fog.