Donald Fischer

Principal

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About

Donald joined Greylock in 2008. His areas of focus include enterprise software, software-as-a-service, open source, mobile, and cloud computing.

Donald is a Board Member at Typesafe, where he led Greylock's Series A investment and served as CEO for the company's first year of operations.

Before Greylock, Donald was Vice President and General Manager of Online Services at Red Hat, where he oversaw new product launches including Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2.  Prior to that, he led product management for Red Hat’s flagship Enterprise Linux product line, the leading commercial open source operating system. Previously, Donald was in consulting and development roles at search pioneer Inktomi (now Yahoo!) and Oracle.

Donald holds a BS in Economics and Computer Science from Yale University, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.