I am an internet technology entrepreneur and award-winning former journalist, and now I advise internet software, services, and infrastructure CEOs and their teams on strategy and execution as a Catalyst Advisor. I primarily work as a board member of public and private companies, and I was previously a Managing Director at General Catalyst.

I currently sit on the boards of five GC portfolio companies (airSlate, Bugcrowd, Casana, Section, and Zorus). Previously, as a Managing Director and advisor to the firm, I served as Non-Executive Chairman of Datto (acquired by Vista Equity Partners), Non-Executive Chairman of L2 (acquired by Gartner), and as a director of Anaconda (acquired by Morningside).

I'm also a director of Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) and was the lead independent director of VMware until the company’s sale to Broadcom in 2023. Earlier in my career, I served as a director of iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT) and as a board member of Dow Jones & Company, Digitas, EMC, and Maven Networks before they were acquired.

I worked at Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), joining as Chief Operating Officer and employee #15 in 1998 when the company launched out of MIT. Later, I served as President and then as CEO for nine years until 2013. I was a member of Akamai’s board of directors until 2019. My work at Akamai earned me the title of 2009 EY Technology Entrepreneur of the Year.

I began my career in broadcast television news, joining WCBS-TV in 1981 as a news writer and eventually becoming news director. I won three Emmy Awards for TV news in New York City. I also held senior management roles at Time Warner, where I helped found RoadRunner, the world’s first consumer broadband service; Pathfinder, one of the first web portals that pioneered internet advertising; and NY 1, the 24-hour cable news channel.

Today, I also serve as Chairman of the Board of ProPublica, the not-for-profit investigative journalism organization, and as a trustee of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Boston. I am a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and previously served as a member of the MIT Visiting Committee in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In terms of public service, I was Chair of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education from 2015 to 2019 under an appointment by Governor Baker, and I was a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) from 2010 to 2017 under an appointment by President Obama.

I am a graduate of Northwestern University, where I am a life trustee.