Nationality Swiss | Name Bernard Dalle | |
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Born July 8, 1967 (age 56) ( 1967-07-08 ) Kreuzlingen, Switzerland Alma mater Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Kellogg School of Management Occupation Venture capitalist and investor, Index Ventures | ||
Bernard Dalle (1967-07-08) July 8, 1967 is the Operating Partner at Index Ventures, a global venture capital firm with offices in London, Geneva, Jersey (Channel Islands), and San Francisco. Dalle oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm. In his previous role as a technology investor, Dalle’s specific sector focus was on cloud, Software as a Service (SaaS), and infrastructure.
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Early life and education
Dalle was born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland and raised in Rabat, Morocco. He received a Master’s degee in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, English: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) in Switzerland in 1990, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1996.
Career
Before his MBA, Dalle worked for four years with Procter & Gamble (P&G) in IT and Finance. At P&G he implemented enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. After his MBA, Dalle worked for McKinsey & Company in Zurich for 15 months. In 1997 Dalle joined Index Ventures in Geneva, one year after the company’s founding. At Index Ventures Dalle has invested in a number of different companies and served on the Boards of Directors of a variety of firms, including Assistly (sold to Salesforce.com); B-hive (sold to VMware); DimDim (sold to Salesforce.com); FilesX (sold to IBM); Gluster (sold to RedHat for $136 million); and Worklight (sold to IBM).
Dalle currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Base CRM, Mimecast, OpenX, Optier, and Pentaho.
Personal life
Dalle lives in Geneva, Switzerland with his wife and 3 children.