Jocelyn Goldfein
Jocelyn Goldfein is an American technology executive and investor. She is the managing director and a general partner at venture capital firm Zetta Venture Partners. Previously she was a director of engineering at Facebook and vice president of engineering at VMware.[1]
Biography[edit]
Goldfein attended Stanford University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1997.[2] After college, Goldfein started her career at Trilogy.[2] Later, she spent seven years at VMware, eventually becoming vice president of engineering.[3] While at VMware, she worked on their core virtualization offering and began their desktop business.[4] She moved on to become director of engineering at Facebook where her teams worked on several features, including news feed and search.[5] She is the managing director and a general partner at venture capital firm Zetta Venture Partners, as well as a guest lecturer at Stanford University, angel investor, and advisor.[1][4] She is a member of the board of Harvey Mudd College.[4]
She spoke at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2012,[5] and delivered a keynote address at Women 2.0's HowTo conference in 2014.[2] In 2017, she was named to Business Insider's list of "43 Most Powerful Female Engineers."[4]
Awards and acknowledgements[edit]
- America's Top 50 Women in Tech, Forbes, Dec. 1, 2018
References[edit]
- ^ a b Griffith, Erin (January 10, 2017). "Zetta Venture Partners Hires Jocelyn Goldfein". Fortune. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Get to Know Keynote Speaker Jocelyn Goldfein, Director of Engineering at Facebook". Women2. August 5, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
- ^ Cutler, Kim-Mai (June 28, 2010). "Facebook grabs Chrome OS engineering director, VMware VP". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Bort, Julie (February 22, 2017). "The 43 most powerful female engineers of 2017". Business Insider. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
- ^ a b Bort, Julie (October 2, 2012). "Facebook Engineer Jocelyn Goldfein To Women: Stop Being Scared Of Computer Science". Business Insider. Retrieved October 4, 2016.