Meet Our Team

Barry Eggers
Barry is a founder of Lightspeed and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of infrastructure technologies, communications and networking, digital media and semiconductors. He has eleven years of venture capital experience and ten years of operating experience.

Prior to joining Lightspeed, Barry held senior business development and operational roles at Cisco Systems from 1991-1997. While at Cisco, Barry was responsible for establishing several of the company's largest distribution channels with OEMs, system integrators and VARs. Also at Cisco, he developed the initial merger and acquisition process and directed the first wave of Cisco's acquisitions and integrations.

Barry has been named multiple times to the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors.

Barry holds a BA in Economics and Business from UCLA and an MBA from Stanford University.

Selected Investments
> Arbor Networks
: Broadband service platform

> Broadview Networks
: Facilities-based CLEC

> Calista Technologies (MSFT)
: Desktop virtualization solution

> Cirtas
: Enterprise cloud storage systems

> Growth Networks (CSCO)
: High-performance switching fabrics

> Maker Comms. (MAKR)
: Communications semiconductors

> MapR Technology
: Map Reduce data center solutions

> MetaSolv Software (MSLV)
: Operations support software

> Nimble Storage
: Enterprise storage solutions

> Pivot 3
: Scalable virtualized storage

> Pliant
: High-performance enterprise flash SSDs

> ScaleMP
: Multi-processor virtualization software

> Sirocco Systems (SCMR)
: Wide-area networking systems

> Telogy Networks (TI)
: VOIP embedded software solutions

> Traverse (AV)
: Enhanced voice messaging platform

> WeFi
: WiFi aggregation platform