Ron Bernal

Partner, Sequel Venture Partners

Ron Bernal joined Sequel Venture Partners in May 2006 as a partner and his investment focus includes energy, systems and software sectors. He has led investments in HelioVolt and Buzzwire and works closely with SkyeTek.

Before joining Sequel, Ron served as a Venture Partner at Sutter Hill Ventures where he led investments in Data Domain (NasdaqGM: DDUP), Data Robotics, Indicative Software, LifeSize Communications, ProStor Systems, and Red Seal Systems.

He joined Sutter Hill in 2002 from Cisco Systems where Ron was the Vice President of Operations for the Product Technology Groups and the Service Provider Line of Business. Ron joined Cisco via the acquisition of Growth Networks in March 2000 where he was President and CEO. Growth Networks was a fabless Internet switching fabric semiconductor company Ron co-founded in October 1998 while he was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at NEA.

Ron was previously an executive with Silicon Graphics for over seven years. He was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the $1+ Billion Server Division. Earlier he was President of the MIPS Group, the microprocessor subsidiary of SGI. Ron was also the Vice President and General Manager of the Supercomputing Systems Division, growing the company to the largest supercomputing vendor in the world.

Previously, Ron was Vice President of Engineering and COO of Edge Computer, a computer company he co-founded in October 1983.

Ron received a BSEE degree from DeVry Institute of Technology in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1978.