Paul Chamberlain
Morgan Stanley
2007 Rank: 27
Age: 44
He and Michael Grimes (see) are Morgan Stanley's dynamic duo. They ran the books for 19 tech IPOs in 2007, more than any other bank. DemandTec, Cavium and LDK Solar are all up 30% or more since their public debuts. Sold Aquantive and Tellme to Microsoft, DoubleClick to Google. Recently instituted BlackBerry-free family time.
Michael D. Grimes
Morgan Stanley
2007 Rank: 7
Age: 41
Cohead of global technology banking. Led six tech IPOs in 2007: Compellent, SuccessFactors, SourceFire, Perfect World, BigBand Networks, Orbitz Worldwide. Managed Google's Dutch auction. Grew up in East L.A. ghetto. Studied like hell to get out. Now he rolls with the richies on Sand Hill Road.
James Perry
Madison Dearborn Partners
2007 Rank: NA
Age: 47
Heads media and telecom investing for Chicago private equity shop. Bought out long-suffering investors in MetroPCS in 2005; paid off in a $4.3 billion IPO in April. Earned chops in wireless with Nextel, Omnipoint, Clearnet. Deals to watch: Sorenson Communications (videophones for the deaf), Univision (Spanish-language media), Topps (sports cards and memorabilia). Started as intern at First Chicago at age 23. Down time: on board of Catholic Relief Services, reads theology.
Thomas Ng
Granite Global Ventures
2007 Rank: 10
Age: 53
Bacteriologist turned venture capitalist cofounded Granite Global Ventures in 2000; one of first firms in China to invest in tech companies. Put money into China's e-commerce site Alibaba, sold 40% of the company to Yahoo for $1 billion in 2005. Believes Chinese market highly speculative, prefers focus on long term. Notable investments include Oculex (pharmaceuticals) and AAC (speaker and headset supplier).
Kheng Nam Lee
Granite Global Ventures
2007 Rank: 29
Age: 60
Engineer focuses on semiconductors and China deals from base in Singapore. Prior to joining GGV, invested in Semiconductor Manufacturing International (China) and Creative Technology (Singapore). Globalization continues with new investments including Inside Contactless (France).
Aneel Bhusri
Greylock Partners
2007 Rank: NA
Age: 41
Midas newcomer was vice chair at PeopleSoft before joining Greylock Partners in 1999. Boston Red Sox fan cofounded Workday (human capital management) with former PeopleSoft boss David Duffield in 2005. Notable 2007 exits include Data Domain, OutlookSoft and Polyserve. Outdoorsman now investing in Simply Continuous, startup offering disaster recovery services.
Jon A. Woodruff
Goldman Sachs
2007 Rank: NA
Age: 46
Harvard grad got start in investment banking at Salomon Brothers in 1986; joined Goldman Sachs in 1993. Quickly rose through the ranks: currently cohead of Goldman Sachs' global technology department. Orchestrated Alibaba, Good Technology and Altiris deals. Spends free time chasing around three sons in San Francisco.
David Katsujin Chao
DCM
2007 Rank: 16
Age: 41
Looking forward to family reunion at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Found early success in Shanghai chipmaker SMIC. Recent exits include TV-on-the-go Sling Media and file-storage shop Acopia Networks. DCM took four companies to the public markets last year: Neutral Tandem, HireRight, Clearwire and VanceInfo. New investments include Outspark (free online games) and Oak Pacific (China's Facebook). Avid collector of Asian comics.
Bryce Lee
Credit Suisse
2007 Rank: NA
Age: 42
Resident green guy at Credit Suisse took public EnerNoc (energy management), First Solar, Suntech, also Chinese Internet companies Perfect World (multiplayer games) and Baidu. Majored in economics and Asian languages at Stanford. Dad paved the way: he is a physicist there. Moved to Hong Kong with Oracle, Singapore with HSBC. Joined Credit Suisse in 1992, New York City four years later. Now lives in California, jets to China, Korea, Singapore or Taiwan monthly.
Daniel Rimer
Index Ventures
2007 Rank: 25
Age: 37
Former banker cofounded venture firm with Netscape's James Barksdale and Quincy Smith. Shut it down a few years later, jumped the pond to join Index in London. Since then Danny, two of his brothers and their partners have had their hands in Europe's hottest tech deals: Skype, Joost, Fon, Netvibes. Just sold MySQL to Sun for $1 billion. Offloaded music site Last.fm on his buddy Smith (now at CBS) for $280 million. Next up: Stardoll, which lets young girls dress up online avatars. Born in Canada, raised in Switzerland.
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