New Enterprise Associates announced that technology industry veteran Ron Bernal has joined the firm as a venture partner.
In this new role, Mr. Bernal, a former entrepreneur-in-residence with NEA, will work closely with the firm’s enterprise infrastructure and services, electronics and energy technology teams.
Mr. Bernal has spent nearly eight years in the venture capital industry and, through previous affiliations, is currently a director of four companies in NEA’s portfolio: Boulder Wind Power, Data Robotics, HelioVolt and ProStor. He was most recently a partner at Sequel Venture Partners where he focused on cleantech, enterprise infrastructure and enterprise software investments. While at Sequel he led the firm’s investment in HelioVolt and serves on that board. Mr. Bernal was previously a venture partner at Sutter Hill Ventures, where he led investments in Data Robotics and ProStor and continues to represent the firm on those boards. He also led the firm’s investment in and served on the board of Data Domain, an NEA-incubated data deduplication company acquired by EMC in 2009. -PR Newswire
