Management
David Ulevitch / Founder & CEO
David Ulevitch is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OpenDNS. An acclaimed DNS and Internet security expert, David started OpenDNS in 2005 after identifying a need for a better performing, more secure DNS service than what was previously available to network administrators. Under David's leadership as CEO of OpenDNS, he grew the company from inception to profitability, and a customer base of millions of users around the world. Prior to founding OpenDNS, David started EveryDNS, an authoritative DNS service that continues to operate today. David received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004. Read more about David...
Allison Rhodes / Director of Marketing
Allison Rhodes is the Director of Marketing for OpenDNS, having led marketing strategy and initiatives since joining the company in 2006. Prior to her current position, she headed corporate communications for enterprise software provider HumanConcepts and worked in public relations at A&R Partners, advising clients such as Adobe Systems on press and communications strategy. Allison began her career as a journalist, working first as a reporter at the Kodiak Daily Mirror, a daily newspaper on Kodiak Island in Alaska, where she was awarded two State Press Club awards for journalistic excellence. Allison received a bachelor's degree in journalism from California State University, Chico.
Michele Law / Vice President of Business Development
Michele Law is the Vice President of Business Development for OpenDNS. Prior to joining OpenDNS in November 2008, Michele spent seven years as a venture capital investor with Greylock where she focused on investments in the consumer Internet, mobile, and security and network infrastructure markets. Prior to Greylock, Michele was a lead hardware engineer at Sun Microsystems specializing in the design and development of RF and digital board products for Sun's workstation and graphic product lines and was co-inventor on three technical patents. In addition, Michele was an analog chip designer at IBM and an associate at the investment bank Robertson Stephens where she executed IPO transactions in the eBusiness and Internet infrastructure technology space. Michele received an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in electrical engineering from Cornell University.
Investors
Sequoia Capital (sequoiacap.com)
Sequoia Capital is the venture investor behind well-known Internet brands such as Yahoo!, Google and PayPal. Outside of the Internet space, Sequoia was also a key venture investor in the early stages of Cisco, Apple and Oracle. The companies funded by Sequoia Capital now account for about 10 percent of the value of NASDAQ.
Greylock Partners (greylock.com)
Greylock Partners is one of the world's leading early-stage venture capital firms. For 40 years, Greylock has teamed with entrepreneurs to fund and help build several hundred successful companies in the US, Israel and Europe. Companies Greylock has funded include DoubleClick, Phone.com (now OpenWave), Red Hat, Ascend Communications, Legato, Continental Cable, Internet Security Systems, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Tellabs, Trilogy, and Sungard.
Minor Ventures (minorventures.com)
Founded in 2005, by veteran entrepreneur Halsey Minor, Minor Ventures is a boutique venture capital firm focused on investing in early stage technology companies that deliver applications and services over the Internet. Minor Ventures invests in passionate, committed entrepreneurs who strive to change the shape of business on the Internet. The firm has invested in a carefully selected group of companies, including its first realized investment, Salesforce.com, the provider of On Demand CRM.
