Roger B. McNamee

Roger McNamee is a co-founder and general partner of Integral Capital Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and Elevation Partners. Roger began his career at T. Rowe Price Associates in a variety of research and portfolio management positions. From September 1988 through August 1991, he was portfolio manager of the top-ranked T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund, a position that included responsibility for the firm's investment strategy in technology. In that role, he initiated venture investments in Electronic Arts, Sybase, and other companies on behalf of the T. Rowe Price Threshold Funds. From September 1987 through August 1991, Roger was co-manager of the T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, a diversified emerging growth fund with assets of $1.3 billion. As a member of the T. Rowe Price equity research department, Roger covered such industries as computers, software, aerospace, telecommunications, and office supplies.

In 1991, Roger and John Powell left T. Rowe Price to form Integral Capital Partners, the first technology crossover fund. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers was a founding partner of Integral and remains Integral's business partner to this day. Among Roger's venture investments at Integral were Intuit, Flextronics, Overture, Documentum, Rambus, Blue Nile, and Cerent (Cisco).

While at Integral, Mr. McNamee co-founded Silver Lake, the first large-scale private equity fund focused on technology and related growth industries. Silver Lake raised $2.3 billion in capital in 1999. Silver Lake's investments to date include Seagate Technology, the world's leading producer of storage technology; Flextronics, the world's leading vendor of electronic manufacturing services; MCI, the nation's leading provider of data communications services; Business Objects, the world's leading business intelligence software; Gartner, the world's leading source of information and insight about information technology; and Ameritrade, the leading provider of on-line brokerage services to individual investors.

In 2004, Roger joined with Fred Anderson, Marc Bodnick, Bono, Bret Pearlman, and John Riccitiello to launch Elevation Partners, the first private equity firm targeting media and entertainment content. Modeled on Silver Lake, Elevation partners with content owners and management teams to enhance the value of intellectual property and to leverage new distribution systems and markets, many of which are the result of technology disruption.

Roger is the author of The New Normal, published in November 2004 by the Portfolio imprint of Penguin Books. The New Normal provides a roadmap for balancing family, career and financial issues in a time where technology and globalization have increased uncertainty, but also increased the opportunities for individuals.

Roger is a frequent speaker at industry and investor conferences. He is also a panelist on Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street on CNBC and a frequent commentator on technology investing. From 1999 to 2001, Roger was named to the "Ultimate Investment Club" by Money magazine. He has a B.A. degree from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. Roger is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Mr. McNamee serves on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College and on the Board of Overseers of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He is also a director of the Rex Foundation.

In his spare time, Mr. McNamee plays guitar and sings lead vocals in the Flying Other Brothers Band (FOBs), a rock 'n' roll band whose self-produced first compact disk (IPO) reached #95 out of more than 325,000 CDs on the Amazon.com sales charts. In February 2005, the FOBs will release a new CD, San Francisco Sounds.

Useful links:
www.silverlake.com
www.icp.com
www.thenewnormal.com
www.fob.com