Bruce Golden: Accel Partners, General Partner

Bruce Golden has been focused on emerging markets and technologies since 1984, when he worked in the computer division at Lucasfilm. Golden joined Accel in 1997 and specializes in enterprise and consumer software investments. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at comScore, Double Fusion, Itemfield, Qliktech, Refresh Mobile, Responsys and several private companies including StreamBase. Golden was responsible for Accel's investment in Ajuba Solutions (acquired by Interwoven, Inc.), Exchange.com (acquired by Amazon.com), and SupportSoft (SPRT).

Prior to Accel, he held executive marketing and sales positions at Illustra Information Technologies, a pioneer in the area of object-relational databases. In 1996 Illustra merged with Informix Software, where Golden became General Manager of the Data Warehouse Business Development Unit. Prior to Illustra, he spent almost eight years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of roles, including launching Sun's efforts into the financial services market, moving to Hong Kong to assist in opening and developing the Sun Asia subsidiary and managing the market development organization upon his subsequent return to the US.

Golden holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Columbia University. He currently lives in London, with his wife and two children.