Roger McNamee

Roger McNamee (born May 2, 1956) is an American businessman, investor, venture capitalist and musician. He is the founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. Prior to co-founding the firm, McNamee co-founded private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and headed the T. Rowe Price Science and Technology Fund. McNamee is also a touring musician, first as a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers, and more recently in that group's follow-on band, Moonalice. Between the two groups, McNamee estimated in April 2009 that he has played 800 shows., in an April 13, 2009 article from the San Francisco Chronicle. 2Career at T. Rowe Price McNamee joined T. Rowe Price as an analyst in 1982, after receiving his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business. By 1989 he was leading the firm's Science & Technology Fund, a period when the fund returned about 17% annually to investors and, in a move atypical for mutual funds, he made venture capital investments in Electronic Arts (which went public in 1989) and Sybase (which had its IPO in 1991). 2Integral Capital Partners In 1991 McNamee co-founded Integral Capital Partners with John Powell and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers to invest in expansion stage private companies and growth-stage public companies. 2Silver Lake Partners In 1999, McNamee was one of the founding partners of leveraged buyout firm Silver Lake Partners. 2Elevation Partners In 2004, McNamee co-founded Elevation Partners along with a number of other investors including U2 frontman Bon