David joined the Investment Program in 2018 and currently oversees the Venture Capital and Real Assets programs. Prior to joining the City of San José, he spent six years at KKR as a principal in the global risk strategies team. Before KKR, David spent six years at Trust Company of the West as a vice president focused on portfolio analytics. He holds an MS, Claremont Graduate University and a BA, University of California, Los Angeles. 

Amanda Groves is the General Partner at PLUS Capital, the Los Angeles-based venture capital and advisory firm focused on emerging growth stage businesses across the consumer and enterprise technology landscape, including investments in companies like Grow Therapy, GRUNS, BuildOps, and Lyra Health. PLUS represents over 80 of the world's top artists and athletes, who are routinely invited to participate in top venture opportunities due their strategic value via marketing and business development initiatives.

Amanda graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.S. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business. She was also a Division 1 soccer player with the Cal Bears.

Outside of the office, she serves on the board of the axeALS Foundation, a California-based nonprofit focused on encouraging research and raising funding and awareness for patient-centric treatment and cure of ALS. Amanda was also named to The Hollywood Reporter’s list Top Dealmakers of 2022, Business Insider’s “30 AND UNDER” list in 2018 and Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list in 2019.

Peter Jarman joined Cross Creek in 2010. He is a Managing Partner focused on growth companies and venture fund investments. Peter‘s investment portfolio and focus spans consumer internet (Coupang, MyHeritage, Poshmark Rover, and Turo), cyber security (AppDynamics, ForeScout, Sumo Logic, and Veracode), financial services (Gusto and First Connect), and enterprise software (Braze, Cortex, Databricks, Docker, Filevine, Gigya, HubSpot, Icertis, Integral Ad Science, Klaviyo, Looker, Level.ai, Novidea, and Pendo).

Prior to Cross Creek, Peter served four years as a senior investment manager at Fort Washington Capital Partners Group on their venture and private-equity team. In addition to his investment experience, Peter spent twelve years in various go-to-market, product management, and corporate development roles at venture-backed consumer and software companies holding senior positions at companies such as PTC, Ancestry.com, Campus Pipeline, and ICON Health & Fitness.

Peter holds an M.B.A. from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, a B.A. from the College of Humanities at the University of Utah and was a Kauffman Fellows Program finalist. In his free time, he serves as a member of the Utah Valley University Foundation Investment Committee and a mentor to the University Growth Fund. Peter enjoys travel, cycling, skiing, and spending as much time as possible exploring the outdoors with his wife and four children.

Erik Sebusch is a Partner at Mercer, a Marsh McLennan company. He is the Global Strategy Leader of Venture Capital and Growth Equity in Mercer's Alternatives boutique. At Mercer, he is a part of a global research/consulting team that works with clients from single-family offices to sovereign wealth funds to construct their private equity allocations. Before Mercer, Erik was a Partner with a San Francisco-based venture capital firm Presidio Partners fka: CMEA Capital. His primary duties were managing the corporate strategic investors, traditional institutional limited partners and early-stage technology investing. In addition, Erik served on the boards of multiple technology companies, led technology investments and served on the Investment Committee while at CMEA. Before CMEA, Erik spent 10+ years at UPS. Erik began in New Product Development and Innovation, then moved to the Corporate Venture Capital group, and lastly worked as a Private Markets Portfolio Manager to a $5+ billion allocation to private assets in the $30+ billion UPS Pension. Before UPS, he spent ten years working as a high-net-worth financial consultant for Merrill Lynch and in private practice for individuals and family offices. Erik holds an International MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and serves on over 30 limited partner advisory boards.

Jihan Bowes-Little is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Bracket Capital.

Founded in 2017, Bracket Capital manages ~$1.2bn of assets focused on equity investments in mid to late-stage private technology companies. Investments include, but are not limited to: AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Hive, Olipop, Palantir, Reddit, SoFi, SpaceX, Stripe, and xAI. The Firm targets outsized risk-adjusted returns in category-leading businesses primarily via special situations (e.g. secondaries, structured equity rounds, etc…).

Jihan began his investing career in London on Goldman Sachs’ esteemed Global Macro Proprietary Trading Desk. In 2006, he moved to Credit Trading, where he managed a multi-billion-dollar portfolio throughout the subprime crisis, generating record profits and gaining invaluable expertise investing in illiquid markets and emerging asset classes. He later joined Millennium Capital as a Portfolio Manager and was later recruited to lead a multi-strategy portfolio for BlueCrest Capital, where he was promoted to Partner in 2012.

Jihan has layered experience identifying and investing in trends across multiple asset classes, lending him unique insights into evolving investable themes, portfolio construction and asset allocation. In addition to running Bracket Capital, Jihan sits on the Board of the Bracket Foundation and the LA Advisory Board for College Track.

Jihan graduated with honours from Brown University (2002) with a double major in Economics and Philosophy. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four children.

Richard is an Investment Partner at Hollyport Capital, a specialist secondary manager focused on legacy private equity and venture capital. Richard joined Hollyport in 2015 as an Associate and is based in London. He became Partner in 2021, and in addition to being a member of the Investment Committee, is responsible for sourcing, negotiating and executing both LP portfolio and GP-led secondary transactions. During his time in the business he has worked on over 80 successful transactions.

Matt is a Partner at Lexington Partners, a leading global manager of private equity secondary and co-investment funds. Matt primarily focuses on technology investing through the acquisition of limited partnership interests in buyout, growth equity and venture capital funds, and direct interests in private companies. Prior to Lexington, Matt was a co-founder at Data Marketplace, a digital marketplace for data that was acquired, and an investor at Genstar Capital, a San Francisco-based middle market buyout firm. Matt began his career at J.P. Morgan’s investment bank and studied finance at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

Ravi Viswanathan is the Founder and Managing Partner of NewView Capital (NVC), a growth-stage firm that helped pioneer venture secondaries. With $2.8B under management, NVC provides primary and secondary capital solutions tailored to the needs of high-potential technology companies and partner investors. The firm complements funding with the operational impact and trusted connections needed to realize scale.

Prior to founding NVC, Ravi was a General Partner at NEA, where he co-led the growth practice and oversaw enterprise software and fintech investing. He has backed 14 unicorns, including MuleSoft, TeleAtlas, Acquia, Scopely, Hims, Plaid, Apollo, Forter, and Human Interest.

Ravi holds an MBA from Wharton, a PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a BS in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Chair of the Wharton Entrepreneurship Advisory Board.

Asaf Horesh is a Managing Partner at Vintage Investment Partners, a global integrated venture platform combining Secondary Funds, Growth-Stage Funds, and Fund-of-Funds. With $4 billion in assets under management across 15 active funds, the firm is invested in many leading venture funds and mid-to-late-stage startups across the U.S., Europe, Israel, and Canada.

Asaf specializes in Fintech, Crypto, and Cloud/SaaS investments and invests in both funds and directly into companies.

Some of his notable investments include Wolt, Mirakl, Bluevine, Alooma, and Datarails.

Prior to joining Vintage, he was a Principal at Greylock IL (now 83North), focusing on enterprise software and consumer deals across Israel and Europe.

Earlier in his career, he worked as a consultant at BCG and as an engineer at Elbit Systems.

Asaf holds a BSc in Computer Science and Management (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar (High Honors).

Alon brings over 30 years of experience in strategy, business and technological innovation.

Prior to joining 10D, Alon co-founded Toka, a leading defense tech startup providing cyber solutions to governments, intelligence agencies, and other global organizations, where he served as CEO. While at Toka, Alon successfully raised funds from leading investors including A16Z, Upfront Ventures, Dell and Eclipse VC.

Before founding Toka, Alon spent 20 years at Check Point, where he was most recently the Vice President of Business Development. During his time there, he led global partnerships, mergers, acquisitions and market penetration strategies.

Kobi, a serial entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience in various technology and investment fields, co-founded Glilot Capital Partners in 2011 with Arik Kleinstein. Kobi’s vision for Glilot was to create a leading investment platform that will grow Israel’s finest innovating companies.

Kobi’s vast experience in building businesses continuously contributes to Glilot's portfolio. His success-driven execution has resulted in 19 exits to date and a strong portfolio.

Prior to founding Glilot, Kobi founded and successfully exited a handful of technology companies in the: Cyber, Telecom, Internet, as well as Consumer Electronics domains. Before those, Kobi served as an executive at various technology companies and as an Officer in unit 8200, an elite IDF technology unit.

Kobi holds a B.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Computer Science from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA (Magna Cum Laude) in Finance & Technology from Tel Aviv University.

Will is CEO and Co-Founder of Varda Space Industries, a microgravity-enabled life sciences company whose reentry capsules leverage the unique environment of microgravity in low-Earth orbit. Prior to Varda, Will co-founded a small venture fund called Also Capital and served as Director of Global Equities Technology at Bank of America. He was the lead avionics engineer at SpaceX and flew Dragon on eight missions to the International Space Station. Will holds a B.S. in Applied Physics from Cornell and a master's in Systems Engineering. He was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and his hobbies include flying and maintaining his Cozy MK4 aircraft.

Ian Cinnamon is the CEO and Co-Founder of Apex, a spacecraft bus platform manufacturer offering productized, configurable satellite bus platforms. With a focus on meeting the needs of the rapidly expanding space industry, Ian leads a team, backed by $125M+ from the world’s best investors, dedicated to providing proliferated, attritable solutions to both the commercial and government sectors.

Prior to his work with Apex, Ian founded Synapse Technology Corporation, a company specializing in artificial intelligence for security and defense. Ian led the company through acquisition by Palantir. Earlier in his career, Ian co-founded Superlabs, which was sold to Zynga, where he served as Director of Product after the acquisition.

Ian is a Forbes "30 Under 30" honoree, and an alumnus of Y Combinator. He received his B.S. from MIT and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Matt Gialich is the CEO and Co-Founder of AstroForge, a pioneering company leveraging space technology to address Earth's critical mineral shortages. With over a decade of experience leading high-performing engineering teams, Matt has built a reputation for driving innovation in the aerospace industry.
After earning his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, he began his career at Toyon Research, where he developed groundbreaking navigation algorithms. He then joined the founding technical team at Virgin Orbit, playing a key role in the company’s early success. There, he led the Flight Software and GNC teams, while also overseeing the recruitment and development of the Avionics division.

Following his tenure at Virgin Orbit, Matt transitioned to Bird, where he served as Director of Vehicle Software. Under his leadership, his team successfully developed the Bird 2 and Bird 3 vehicles, advancing the company’s technology and market position.
Now at the helm of AstroForge, Matt is at the forefront of space mining, driving the company toward its mission of unlocking the vast resources of asteroids to build a more sustainable future on Earth.

Delian Asparouhov is a partner at Founders Fund and co-founder and President of Varda Space Industries, which is building the world's first space factories. Before joining Founders Fund, he was a principal at Khosla Ventures, head of growth at Teespring, and founder of a healthcare company called Nightingale. Delian is Bulgarian, attended MIT, and likes to kitesurf and play soccer.

Phin is the co-founder and managing partner of The General Partnership (TheGP), a venture capital firm that’s redefining what partnership means for founders and investors through sweat equity. Before starting The GP with Dan Portillo in 2022, Phin spent over a decade at First Round Capital, starting off as a summer associate and leaving as a managing partner. While at First Round, Phin came to understand venture capital as a product that founders buy with their equity and turned that idea into a cultural mandate of service to founders. This helped define the firm’s brand and inspired community programs like Angel Track and Dorm Room Fund, which he co-founded and led. Throughout his tenure there, he was responsible for over 60 investments, partnering with companies like Notion, Clover, Gauntlet, Clay, and Persona.

Before First Round, Phin was an early employee at AND 1 Basketball and served as the Creative Director for Footwear. A basketball player during his time at Haverford College, Phin has since maintained his addiction to sneakers, love of hip-hop, and a decent trash-talk vocabulary. Phin lives in San Francisco with his wife, Carrie, and daughter, Etta.

Dayna Grayson is Co-founder & Managing Partner of Construct Capital, an early stage venture firm that invests behind the accelerating changes in foundational industries that together make up half our economy’s GDP are failing to meet customer expectations. Some of their investments across the manufacturing to supply chain to mobility and defense spaces include Hadrian, Copia, Veho, Atomic Machines, and Vammo. Dayna was one of the first venture capitalists to turn her attention to transforming industrial sectors of our economy over a decade ago. During her time as a partner at NEA from 2012-2020, she was the lead investor from the earliest stages and was on the board of companies including Desktop Metal, Tulip, Onshape (acqd by PTC), NeuralMagic (acqd by Redhat), Guideline, and Framebridge (acqd by Graham Holdings) among others.

Dayna started her career in product development and led design at Blackbaud [NASDAQ: BLKB], the leading global provider of software to nonprofit organizations, as the company grew to over $130 million in revenue and completed a successful public offering and was an investor at North Bridge Venture Partners from 2007-2012.

She is a graduate of the University of Virginia (Systems Engineering) where she’s on the board of the Engineering Foundation and Harvard Business School, where she serves as a venture partner.

Vanessa Larco joined NEA as a partner in 2016 and spent eight years focused on opportunities in enterprise and consumer applications. She left the firm in 2025 to pursue an entrepreneurial path (to be announced!) and is passionate about well-designed products and services that enable people to be more productive and fulfilled in their daily lives. Vanessa has led investments in Assembled, Kindred, Rewind AI, Cleo, Evernow, Rocket.Chat, Mejuri, EvidentID, Greenlight Card, and Lily AI. She is also a board observer at Forethought AI, Safebase, Orby AI, and Granica AI. She was a board observer at Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) until its IPO in 2021. Prior to Venture, she led Product Teams at Box, Twilio, Disney and Xbox.

As the Fire Chief of the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA), Brian Fennessy leads more than 1,800 firefighters and non-sworn personnel who collectively serve 2 million residents across 23 cities and unincorporated counties.

Chief Fennessy began his career in 1978 with the USFS and BLM working as a hotshot crewmember and ultimately crew superintendent.

In 1990, Fennessy joined the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department and ultimately became Chief of the Department in 2015. In 2018, he was appointed Fire Chief of the OCFA.

Chief Fennessy currently serves as Chair of the FIRESCOPE Board of Directors; represents California as a member of the Western Fire Chiefs Association Wildland Fire Policy Committee; represents the nine West Division FEMA Urban Search & Rescue Task Forces; and President of the California Fire Chiefs Association. In 2022, Chief Fennessy was recognized as CalChiefs Fire Chief of the Year and in 2023, the International Association of Fire Chief’s Career Fire Chief of the Year.

John has changed the way we live with fire through his 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Watch Duty. John spent many years in Silicon Valley focusing on underserved markets that had been overlooked by technologists. In 2012 he founded Zenput as CTO, focused on retail food services operations which was acquired in 2022. After living in San Francisco for 16 years, he moved off-the-grid to Sonoma County in 2020 where he was faced with the terrifying reality of life in the wildlands without the information needed to make informed decisions. Having developed software for over 30 years beginning at age 8, John found himself with a life or death problem he had to solve not only for himself, but for his community. He spent more than a year understanding the problems and then together, with his team, created Watch Duty in just 80 days. Today Watch Duty has a team of over 200 active and retired wildland firefighters, dispatchers, first responders, and reporters supporting millions of citizens and first responders who rely on the Watch Duty App across the American West to stay safe.

Fiona Spruill is the CEO of Overstory, a startup that applies AI to satellite imagery in order to reduce the risk of wildfires and power outages. Before taking over as CEO, Fiona served as Chief Product & People Officer where she played a central role in the development of Overstory’s product. Prior to that she was COO of Meetup, the global community platform that was acquired by WeWork. As COO, she was responsible for product, design, business strategy, sales and customer support. Before Meetup, she spent 14 years at The New York Times in various roles, including running the digital newsroom and launching a variety of mobile apps.

Splitting time between San Francisco and Mendocino County, Bill loves both the forests of Northern California and the energy and pace of Silicon Valley. He is passionate about the potential of startups to create new tools for firefighters, policy makers, utilities, insurance companies, landowners and other stakeholders in order to restore a healthy relationship with fire.

Prior to starting Convective Capital, Bill was co-founder & CEO of WePay, a fintech company which was acquired by J.P. Morgan Chase in 2017. Bill is an active angel investor in over 50 seed-stage companies and was previously a Part-Time Partner at Y Combinator.

When he isn’t talking to founders, you’ll find him skiing or working on his timber ranch in Boonville CA. In the past, he volunteered with the Anderson Valley Fire Department and American Red Cross Disaster Action Teams. Bill lives in San Francisco and Boonville with his wife Katey, son Sully, newborn daughter Finley, and Rhodesian Ridgeback Penny. Bill has a B.S. in Computer Science from Boston College.

Aditi Maliwal is a partner at Upfront Ventures, investing in early stage companies across financial technology and enterprise software. Aditi partners with founders at their earliest stages of inception and supports them throughout the stages of company building. While at Upfront, she has partnered deeply in this way with Arcade, Clair, Renew, Stem, WriterAI and ZestAI amongst others.

Before joining Upfront, Aditi was at Google, first on the Corporate Development team leading acquisitions across various sectors including AI, commerce and fintech, and then on the Next Billion Users team building products for users in emerging markets. Prior to Google she worked in early stage venture at Crosslink Capital where she invested in Chime, BetterUp, and PowerToFly among other companies. She began her career in investment banking at Deutsche Bank, in the technology banking group. She has a B.A. from Stanford University. She has lived between Mumbai, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Singapore and San Francisco.

Nick is a partner at Upfront Ventures. He focuses on early-stage investments in hard tech and critical infrastructure sectors like advanced manufacturing and robotics, aerospace and defense, energy and resources, and communications. Prior to joining Upfront, Nick was at Crosscut Ventures leading seed investments. Before Crosscut, Nick was an early employee at Warby Parker, where he was the general manager of the Home Try-On business. Nick also served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Human Ventures and as an investor with the Dorm Room Fund, First Round Capital’s student-run investment fund. Nick graduated with a degree in economics from UC Berkeley and earned his MBA from The Wharton School. 

Yair leads investor relations at Upfront. Prior to joining the firm, he held various leadership positions at tech companies in Los Angeles, including most recently as CEO at Intoo, an HRTech company, where he led global expansion efforts. Prior to that, he was President of CareerArc’s career development and transition business, which was acquired by Gi Group Holding. He was also the first employee and served in various leadership positions at Internships.com, the world’s largest internships marketplace, which was acquired by Chegg. Earlier in his career, Yair worked at Putnam, a strategy consulting firm. Yair received a BA from Vanderbilt University and MBA from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Nina runs financial operations and analytics at Upfront. Before joining Upfront, Nina was CFO at Omaze, a venture backed company innovating at the intersection of gaming and charitable fundraising. Before Omaze, Nina was VP Finance at TOMS, which sold to Bain Capital in 2014. Nina started her career in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. She received an AB in Economics from Princeton and an MBA from The Wharton School.

Seksom Suriyapa has been a partner at Upfront Ventures since 2021, focused on growth investing. Prior to joining Upfront, he was the Vice President and Head of Corporate Development and Strategy for Twitter, leading company-wide initiatives intended to accelerate innovation including: diversification of non-advertising revenue streams; enhancing creator tools such as audio and long-form; and adding new machine learning capabilities. He also led Twitter's acquisitions efforts globally, taking the company through more than 20 acquisitions and investments valued at nearly half a billion dollars. Prior to Twitter, Suriyapa held senior strategic, operating, and financial roles at enterprise companies including SuccessFactors/SAP Cloud, Akamai Technologies, and McAfee. He also has served as an advisor and coach to both consumer and enterprise startups and private company CEOs, with a focus on and passion for the emerging creator ecosystem/consumer internet, enterprise SaaS, and sustainability-focused companies. He has an MBA from INSEAD Business School, a JD from Stanford Law School and a BA from Williams College.