Vineet Buch

Partner

2018 - Current

Director, Product Management, Play Store

2016 - 2018

Director, Product Management, Google Shopping

2010 - 2016

Google acquired my company, Like.com, on August 20, 2010. I led the product team for the world's largest shopping search site

Chief Product Officer

2009 - 2010

Product Management, Engineering, Organic Traffic, M&A. Google acquired Like.com on August 20, 2010

Partner

2005 - 2009

Investing in Enterprise Computing, Internet Infrastructure, Mobile Services and Consumer Internet. My firm also invests in Semiconductors, Cleantech and Systems; we are a diversified global venture fund with a presence in the US, Korea, China, India, Israel and Europe. Five exits as of September 2018 - uGenie : Sourced, diligenced, Board Member. Acquired by Lulu.com in June 2008 - Slide : Diligenced, Board Observer. Acquired by Google in August 2010 - Like.com (Internet): Co-founded, sourced, Board Member. Acquired by Google in August 2010 - Zmanda: Sourced, diligenced, Board Observer. Acquired by Carbonite October 2012 - Coupa: Sourced, diligenced, Board Member. Public on Nasdaq, November 2016 Radius (sourced, diligenced, board member) is still private.

Co-founder and CTO

2004 - 2005

Co-founder and CTO of a consumer internet company focused on search inside pictures; the company runs http://www.like.com, a visual search-based shopping site for soft goods such as handbags, shoes, jewelry, watches and clothing. Currently involved on the board since I'm now at a VC firm, BlueRun Ventures, that invested in Riya.

Director, Server Advanced Technologies

2001 - 2004

 Managed a distributed product management and software development team (Bay Area and Bangalore)  Responsible for all performance-related features of the Oracle Database. Worked on Oracle9i Database Release 2 and Oracle Database 10g and drove a 28% increase in product performance.  Planned and oversaw execution of all published performance benchmarks at Oracle for Database, Application Server, SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle Applications.  Guided Oracle from a lagging position in Database and Application Server benchmarks to world records in TPC-C, TPC-H, ECPerf and SPECjAppServer benchmarks  Keynote speaker at Oracle customer events  Responsible for Oracle’s technology relationship with SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and SAS with the goal of increasing usage of Oracle Database by customers of these ISVs.  Represented Oracle to the media on Performance issues – e.g., see http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=4282

Co-founder and CTO

2001 - 2001

- Developed business plan for a system management software company, specifically targeting operations management at large service providers and IT shops. - Investigated market size, product requirements and competition - Helped raise $1M from angel investors and launched Karient. - Wrote functional specification of Karient v 1.0n Presented Karient vision to early adopter customers and secured four development partners, including a Fortune 500 financial services firm - Pitched Karient to the venture community and helped secure $3M in Series B funding

Senior Director, Engineering

1999 - 2000

- Conceived and brought to market Corio eMarket, the first integrated hosted software suite for B2B marketplaces. - Developed solution profile, negotiated with and integrated ISV partners, helped close first two customers, launched the solution offering and transitioned it to Corio Sales. See http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/360071 - Developed software to automate Corio’s IT operations. Corio, a leading Application Service Provider, used this software to move from a manual, one-off customer deployment model to standardized, easily replicated operations, reducing costs as well as operational errors - Hired and managed a team of 18 developers and product managers

Practice Manager, Consulting

1996 - 1999

- Led a consulting practice focused on enterprise application architecture, focusing on multi-billion dollar accounts in the Manufacturing sector. Clients included Cisco Systems, Motorola, GE, Honeywell and Sun Microsystems. - Successfully delivered projects costing several million dollars and employing up to 100 people drawn from Oracle, the client and third-party vendors