Madrona has appointed a deep bench of operational and investor team members who will work with portfolio companies on strategy and execution. Wei Gao joins as venture partner, Anna Baird as operating partner and Vivek Ramaswami as partner.
As venture partner, Wei will help identify new investments and provide strategic and operational advice to Madrona portfolio companies. Wei brings over 20 years of operating leadership across product, technology, and business operations. A
Baird is an Operating Partner at Madrona, where she will leverage her deep go-to-market and operating expertise to help advise fast-growing and acceleration-stage companies in the Madrona portfolio. She brings a wealth of management and operational skillsets to Madrona portfolio companies and has served as a COO, CFO and CRO — most recently at Outreach.io – the leading sales engagement platform.
Ramaswami joins Madrona as a Partner. Based in the Palo Alto office, he focuses on identifying, evaluating, and leading new investment opportunities and working closely with existing companies. Ramaswami joins Madrona from Steadfast Capital, where he worked with Managing Director Karan Mehandru investing in and advising technology companies.
