Frederic Kerrest.
Managing Partner & Founder at Windproof Partners
About
San Francisco Bay AreaI'm a technology entrepreneur, investor and advisor focused on enterprise AI, infrastructure and cyber security.
I'm the Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of Okta, the public enterprise software company I helped build into a multi-billion-dollar category leader, and the Founder and Managing Partner of 515 Ventures (early-stage) and Windproof Partners (growth-stage), through which I back and advise leading startups including Chainguard, ClickHouse, Cyera and Decagon.
I'm the author of Zero to IPO, a Wall Street Journal bestselling book on building and scaling disruptive technology startups, and I co-founded the neurotherapeutics company Herophilus, acquired by Genentech/Roche.
I teach Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley Haas and serve as a Trustee of the MIT Corporation. I received a BS in Computer Science from Stanford and an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from MIT Sloan.
The future is bright, let's go!
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Experience
From LinkedIn- Managing Partner & FounderWindproof Partners2024 to present
- Managing Partner & Founder515 Ventures2016 to present
- Vice-Chairman & Co-FounderOkta2023 to present
- Executive Vice-Chairman, COO and Co-FounderOkta2019 to 2023
- Board Member, COO & Co-FounderOkta2009 to 2019
- AuthorZero to IPO Book2020 to present
Education
- MIT Sloan School of ManagementMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
- Stanford UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.)
- Lycee International de St. Germain-en-LayeFrench Baccalaureat