Rob Ward co-founded Meritech Capital Partners, one of the first venture funds dedicated exclusively to growth capital, and currently helps lead the firm's infrastructure, application software, and data & analytics investment practices. Over the past 25 years he has been an integral part of numerous successful Meritech investments including Alteryx, Anaplan, BigFix, Box, Coupa, Cloudera, Cornerstone OnDemand, Duo Security, Facebook, Fortinet, Imperva, Looker, Netezza, NetSuite, PopCap, Proofpoint, Rally, Roblox, Salesforce, Segment, ServiceMax, Snowflake, Tableau, and Veracode. His current private company portfolio includes Astronomer, Atlan, Pendo, Pigment and Verkada among others.
Prior to Meritech, Rob worked in investment banking at Montgomery Securities and Smith Barney. Rob received a B.A. from Williams College and an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rob grew up in Rochester, New York and graduated from the Allendale Columbia School. With his wife Lee he now resides primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area where they raised their three children. When Rob isn't running, skiing, hiking, paddleboarding or doing anything active outdoors, he's daydreaming about Josh Allen putting an end to decades of disappointment since Super Bowl XXV.
“As a western New York native and lifelong Bills fan, I am beyond thrilled to be a very small part of this accomplished ownership group. There is nowhere else I would rather be than right here, right now, supporting Terry, Kim, Laura and the entire Pegula family in bringing an NFL championship to Buffalo.” Rob Ward