Promod Haque

Promod Haque has more than 15 years of experience in the venture capital industry. He currently serves as managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners, a leading high-tech venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm manages more than $1.8 billion in venture capital and has funded over 350 companies since inception.

Promod has been ranked as a top 10 dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past three years. In 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the last decade.

Promod focuses on investments in enterprise software and communications technologies. Promod was an early investor and a board member of Cerent Corporation (acquired by Cisco), Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette) and Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola). He seeded Extreme Networks in 1996.

His current investments include AmberPoint, Arbortext, Cast Iron Systems, Inkra Networks, Open-Silicon, Veraz Networks, veveo.tv and Virtela Communications. Other notable investments and previous board seats include Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM), Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape Communications), Information Advantage (acquired by Sterling Software), Resonext Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices), Showcase Corporation (acquired by SPSS) and ZettaCom (acquired by IDT).

Prior to Norwest Venture Partners, Promod spent 18 years in various operational roles ranging from product development, marketing, COO and CEO at various public and private companies - Siemens International, Thorn EMI, Emergent Technologies and Dimensional Medicine, Inc.

Pramod received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University of Delhi, India. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he serves on the advisory board.