Mike Volpi

Mike is a partner at Index Ventures, which he joined in 2009. He is a Partner in the London office, focusing on investments in the Internet, telecom/networking and media sectors. He also contributes to the firm’s later stage growth fund and he currently sits on the boards of Cloud.com, GroupSpaces. Sonos and Storsimple and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC). Mike was Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Routing and Service Provider Technology Group, where he led Cisco’s business for the Service Provider market, and was also responsible for all of Cisco’s routing and access products. In 2007, this was an $11 billion business for Cisco. Mike also served as the company’s Chief Strategy Officer. During this tenure, he was instrumental in the creation of the company’s acquisition and investment strategies, as Cisco acquired more than 70 companies during his tenure. He has master’s and bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.