Reza Malekzadeh (entrepreneur)
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| Born | Tehran, Iran |
| Residence | San Francisco, California |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | General Partner, Partech Ventures |
Reza Malekzadeh is a San Francisco-based software executive and entrepreneur of French nationality, noted for his active role in the development of virtualization leader VMware and several entrepreneurial ventures. Most recently, he had joined Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners funded software startup Nimbula as its VP of Marketing. In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation. Malekzadeh left and joined Startup Cumulus Networks, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Peter Wagner and 4 of the 5 original VMware founders. In early 2016, he joined Partech Ventures as General Partner.
Reza Malekzadeh was born in Iran and raised in France where he graduated from leading Business School HEC class of 1995. He moved to Silicon Valley and started his career at software startup NetCarta as Product Manager for the flagship product WebMapper. NetCarta was acquired by Microsoft.
He then joined the Softway Group in San Francisco and simultaneously launched his first entrepreneurial venture. With Gregoire Gentil, he formed Pilot Plus, a software company delivering products on the then nascent Palm Pilot platform. Pilot Plus released the ToDo Plus and Memo Plus applications, which rapidly became top sellers on the leading Palm Pilot e-commerce site, PalmPilotGear. Gentil and Malekzadeh sold Pilot Plus to Hands High Software in 1998.
Reza Malekzadeh then joined VMware, co-founded by Mendel Rosenblum, Diane Greene and Edouard Bugnion. He was the first non engineer employed by the company and served as its Director of Marketing. As such, he was instrumental in launching the company in February 1999 at the DEMO Conference organized by Chris Shipley. He also served as one of the primary spokespeople for the company throughout its early years.
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