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.

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.