About Us

Prior to founding Consorte Media, Alicia was an investment professional focused on U.S. venture opportunities in the technology sector for The Carlyle Group's U.S. Venture Fund. Prior to joining Carlyle, Alicia was with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners where she focused on early-stage software investments. While at Hummer Winblad, Alicia was also VP Operations for Napster and CEO of Zero Gravity Internet Group, Inc., a venture fund. Alicia has also served on the Boards of several companies, including Ingenio, Ventaso, Secure Elements, Archetype-Solutions, Applied Semantics, Menerva Technologies, Inc. and Discovercast, Inc. Prior to Hummer Winblad, Alicia worked as a corporate attorney for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Prior to that, Alicia worked in investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Alicia holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and received her B.A. from Stanford University.

Yogen's successful history as an entrepreneur and executive coupled with his legacy as an engineer makes him enormously valuable as a venture capitalist and Mayfield leader since 1991. He brings broad talent to a wide range of early-stage investments in the consumer/media, enterprise and communications software arenas. Yogen currently sits on the boards of Affinity Labs, BeVocal, Consorte, Packet Design, PacketHop, Podbridge, PostX and Revenue Science. Yogen's past notable investments include Arbor Software, BroadVision, Nuance, OuterBay, Packet Engines, Snapfish, Tibco, Vantive and Whistle. Prior to joining Mayfield, Yogen was a founding member of two successful startups, Claris Corporation and Metaphor Computer Systems. Yogen was also a member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox and a co-author of the TCP Specification while at Stanford University. Yogen earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he was recently honored as one of its Distinguished Alums. Yogen is a board member of the Entrepreneurs Foundation. He also serves on the board of TheatreWorks, a nationally acclaimed professional theater company in the Bay Area.

Chamath is an Internet generation executive, having designed, launched and managed some of the Internet's most successful and well-known consumer products and services. Currently Chamath is the VP of Marketing and Operations for Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Chamath focused on consumer Internet, advertising and media investments for Mayfield. Prior to Mayfield, Chamath spent five years with AOL, most recently as the vice president and general manager of the Desktop Messaging group with overall responsibility for the AIM and ICQ businesses. Prior to his role as head of AIM and ICQ, Chamath was vice president of business operations for AOL's broadband subscription service helping to build the business to over $1 billion in revenue. He also co-founded and launched a Music Video-On-Demand (VOD) Channel to both critical and user acclaim, garnering successive Emmy nominations in 2005 and 2006. Earlier, Chamath held management positions with Internet music pioneers Spinner.com (AOL) and Winamp (AOL). Chamath attended the University of Waterloo, where he graduated First Class Honors with a B.S. in electrical engineering. He is a native of Sri Lanka, was raised in Canada and has lived in the United Kingdom.

Greg Sands focuses on software, internet services, and advertising, marketing and media technologies and services across channels. He looks for important business functions the internet can revolutionize or replace, complex and scalable software, and high margin, defensible business models.

Greg Sands joined Sutter Hill Ventures in 1998 from Netscape Communications. As the company's original product manager, he co-authored the company's original business plan and launched and shipped its initial products, working closely with both engineering and sales. He then created and led the SuiteSpot business unit, growing it from $0 to $150M. He also worked previously at Cisco Systems, where he was the architect of a global channel management plan, and at Corporate Decisions (now Mercer Management Consulting), where he consulted to start-ups and Fortune 500 companies on product development and marketing strategies.

Greg serves as a director for Consorte Media, ChoiceStream, Intacct, Merced Systems, Nexxo Financial, QuinStreet, Return Path, Valista and Volo Media. Greg is also a board observer at SeeSaw Networks. Previous investments include FeedBurner (GOOG), Closedloop (LWSN) and AllBusiness (DNB).

Greg is a trustee of the Stanford University DAPER Fund. He also co-founded, and is a director of the non-profit Start Up, a microenterprise program for entrepreneurs and small business owners in underprivileged communities. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Stanford Business School Trust.

He earned an AB in government from Harvard College in 1989 and received an MBA at Stanford in 1994.