Peter Nieh

Peter Nieh is a founding partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners, covering the areas of cleantech, software, and the internet. He has twelve years of venture capital experience and seven years of operating experience. Mr. Nieh has led Lightspeed's investments in energy related companies such as Coaltek, Stion and Mobius Power, and software/internet companies such as Blue Nile, Doubleclick, Informatica, and Phone.com (Openwave).

Prior to Lightspeed, Mr. Nieh worked in business development and product marketing at General Magic, a startup which before the emergence of the Web pioneered the development of e-commerce and electronic media services by partnering with the world's largest telecommunications service providers and consumer electronics companies. He also managed Acer's portable PC business in North America, where he launched the company's first laptop and notebook PCs. Before Acer, Mr. Nieh was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company where he worked predominately with high-technology clients on product and sales & distribution strategies. While an undergraduate at Stanford, he worked at Apple Computer where he helped to develop the power management system for Apple's first portable computer.

Mr. Nieh holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, an AB in Economics, and an MBA from Stanford University.