Katrina Garnett

Managing Director

1994 - Current

As Managing Director, Katrina identifies, evaluates, and makes investment decisions about new start-ups. Her extensive technology and investment background allows her to assess companies' product as well as their business plan. Upon receiving a Garnett Ventures investment, companies benefit from Katrina's more than 20 years of expertise, often asking her to serve on the Board of Directors and/or as an Advisor. While Garnett Ventures was formed in May 2012, it oversees all previous investments, dating back to 1994 from Garnett Capital.

Member of The Board of Councilors

2018

Advisory Board

2018 - 2021

Reported to the President of SRI Ventures

Member of the Board of Directors

2018 - 2020

Connected Car & Mobility Services

Member of the Board of Directors

2017 - 2020

Automated and reusable integration for the Enterprise. Acquired by UniPath 3/2021

Managing Director

2007 - 2013

MyLittleSwans.com is an online travel site dedicated to high-end custom family travel and lifestyle. MLS's approach allowed users to eliminate the middle-man and research and contact the best on-the-ground tour companies directly, and create itineraries based on vetted and curated experiences. The site is available to access as self-service without any passwords or charge. It represents the trips and itineraries that Ms.Garnett did with her family for over a 20yr period as travel and photography was and still is a passion for Ms.Garnett. The inspiration for the site came from friends asking to replicate her trips.

Founder, Chairman, President, and CEO

1996 - 2001

Ms. Garnett founded Crossworlds Software in 1996 at age 35, and served as Chairman, President and CEO until its successful IPO June 2000 and acquisition by IBM January 2001. Crossworlds provided ‘processware’ which enabled automated business process integration thru object technology. Crossworlds replaced costly custom point-to-point data integrations with multi-point and version transparent integrations for best of breed enterprise applications. For example, integrations of logistics supply chains between Oracle, Siebel, Salesforce, SAP, Peoplesoft. JD Edwards, I2, and Manugistics. Crossworlds was branded as the ‘Switzerland of Integration’. Ms. Garnett successfully raised over $80m in equity financing from the Crossworlds software partners, to include SAP, Intel, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Manugistics, Compaq, Dell, the Soros Fund, Ernst & Young, Vantive, Scopus, Clarify, Deutsche Bank, Omron and Kanematzu. Ms. Garnett grew Crossworlds from a raw startup to 400 employees and $0-$100m in revenue by the time of acquisition by IBM. During Ms. Garnett’s tenure, she moved to Munich Germany for a year to setup the international operation to develop partner and customer engagements. Crossworlds customers included, Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, British Telecom, FarmLand, Hewlett Packard, BMW, Ericsson, Nokia, Penske Logistics, GM, Shell Oil and Total Oil.

Vice President, GM of Distributed, Objects and Connectivity Division

1990 - 1996

After Oracle, Ms. Garnett was the only female SRVP at Sybase managing the Distributed, Objects & Connectivity Development Groups. She managed 300 software engineers and 30 PhDs with full P/L responsibility. Products included the Replication Server for global trading applications used by Wall Street firms, the Massively Parallel Server for the NCR 3600 & 3700 clusters for high-end decision support systems for customers like Citibank and American Express, the Object Server for customers like JPL and all client/server connectivity products. Ms. Garnett joined Sybase prior to their IPO, so focus was on delivering quality and on time products with successful customer implementations to support the company strategy.

Technical Management Positions

1986 - 1990

Ms. Garnett was one of the few females at Oracle Corporation in technical roles in the UNIX Database Development Group and the Office Automation Development Group with the Oracle Mail and Oracle Calendar products. Oracle at this time was in an extreme high growth phase from $100m to $1b in revenue.