Wednesday, October 1, 2008

NEA Promotes Four

Menlo Park-based venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates said Tuesday that it has made a number of promotions. According to the firm, it has named Harry Weller as General Partner at the firm, Rohini Chakravarthy and Jon Sakoda as Partners, and Ali Behbahani, M.D. as Principal. Weller has been at NEA since 2002, and focuses on technology and renewable energy; Chakravarthy has been at the firm since 2007, and has previously served at Cisco Systems; Sakoda has been at NEA since 2006, and was co-founder of IMlogic; Behbahani joined NEA in 2007, and has served at The Medicines Company, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, and Lehman Brothers.