Dave Whorton
Managing Director, Tugboat Ventures
After earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford´s Graduate School of Business, Dave found his way to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Texas Pacific Group Ventures, where he developed and incubated numerous investments. Throughout, Dave was mentored by some of the best in the business, including Brook Byers, John Doerr, Bruce Dunlevie, Vinod Khosla and Dave Strohm.
Dave has been called a "serial entrepreneur." He has served as founding CEO, and later executive chairman, of Good Technology; co-founder of Drugstore.com; co-founding board member of NewSchools Venture Fund, and general manager and president of Optical Engineering, Inc. Before OEI, Dave was a consultant at Bain & Company, a global strategic consulting firm. He has also held various marketing and engineering positions at Hewlett Packard and Netscape Communications. He currently serves on the board of directors of SuccessFactors, Business Signatures and NewSchools Venture Fund.