John O'farrell
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Sunnyvale, California
Overview
Work Experience
National Board Member
2018 - Current
United States Fund For Unicef helps save and protect the world's most vulnerable children.
Raised $7,000,000.00 from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
General Partner
2010
a16z is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. I was recruited as the first non-founding General Partner in 2010. Board member at Slack, PagerDuty, Factual, GoodData and IFTTT. Non-profit board memberships: UNICEF USA; MapLight.
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
EVP Business Development
2008 - 2010
Silver Spring Networks provides an open, extensible and secure IP-based networking software and hardware platform that enables large electric utilities to deliver the full promise of the Smart Grid. Led development of cross-company strategy and three-year plan for international expansion. Recruited the business development and international teams. Led business development and startup of initial projects in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Ran partnerships and M&A.
EVP Business Development
2001 - 2007
Alliances -- EDS, Cisco Outbound M&A -- Rendition, iConclude, Creekpath, Tangram Inbound M&A: Acquisition of Opsware by HP Revenue-generating transactions: EDS, Cisco, NTT, NEC, Qwest...
EVP International
1997 - 2001
• Responsible for all aspects of international business, including business development and operations. • Founded international division and grew it to $70M annual revenues, 500 employees, 20M daily page-views, 280,000 broadband customers, 10 countries. • Negotiated joint ventures with local partners in Japan, Australia and Netherlands.
President, US WEST Interactive Services Group
1995 - 1997
• Responsible for Internet strategy development and execution. • Managed development of domestic high-speed Internet services strategy. • Established a venture investment unit and incubator, leveraging MediaOne’s broadband distribution into multiple strategic investments, generating several hundred million dollars in value.
Vice-President, Corporate Strategy
1992 - 1995
• Managed cross-company strategy development effort, involving over 100 executives, and drove U S WEST’s industry-leading $15 billion investments in broadband cable in the US, Europe and Asia. • Key member of strategy and execution teams for Time Warner Entertainment investment and Continental Cablevision acquisition. • Managed strategy development and implementation of tracking stock for cable and wireless assets as a precursor to full spin-off.
Head of New Enterprises
1989 - 1992
• Developed and executed diversification strategy. • Founded successful call center and home security ventures. • Led business development activities in United States, Europe, Russia, Latin America and Asia.
Senior Associate
1986 - 1989
• Strategy development for clients including Toshiba, Airtouch, Pacific Telesis, GTE.
Booz Allen Hamilton is a consulting firm that specializes in analytics, technology, and engineering.
Raised $2,378,460,000.00.
Marketing Associate
1985 - 1986
Marketing Associate (while attending Stanford GSB)
ROLM Corporation is a tech company focused on hardware and software related to the telecommunications industry.