Ray Rothrock is a partner at Venrock and the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. With 50 investments to his credit during his 25 years at Venrock, Rothrock remains passionate about building companies. His current investments are mostly in the fields of computer network security and energy. Past successful investments with seven IPOs include Spyglass, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Digex, USInternetworking, FogDog Sports, Imperva, Vontu and PGP. Rothrock serves on the boards of Check Point, Appthority, CTERA Networks, CloudFlare, GenBand, CoreTrace, RedSeal Networks, Aria Systems, Transonic Combustion and Tri Alpha Energy. He has been a trustee of the Texas A&M Foundation. Rothrock also serves on the visiting committee of the MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. He received a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University in 1977, a master's degree in nuclear engineering from MIT in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1988.

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