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Forest Baskett

Forest Baskett
General Partner
New Enterprise Associates, Inc.


Forest Baskett joined New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 1999 as a venture partner and became a general partner in 2004. Baskett focuses on information and energy technology investments and serves on the board of directors for several private and public companies. Some of his investments that became public companies are Atheros Communications, Audience, Data Domain, Fusion-io, and Tableau Software. Prior to NEA, Baskett was senior vice president of research and development and chief technology officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI). He founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation before joining SGI. Prior to that, he was a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. Baskett received a B.A. in mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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