Forest Baskett

Forest joined NEA (New Enterprise Associates) in 1999 as a Venture Partner and became a General Partner in 2004. Forest focuses on information technology investments and serves on the Board of Directors for several private and public companies. Some of his investments that became public companies include Atheros Communications, Audience, Data Domain, Fusion-io, and Tableau Software. Prior to NEA, Forest served as Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. Forest founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation before joining SGI. Prior to that, Forest was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Forest received a Bachelor of Mathematics from Rice University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Forest is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.