George Zachary

George Zachary joined Charles River Ventures in 2004. He brings more than 17 years of operating and investing experience in computing and consumer technology. George's focus is on building great services and software technology companies. George led CRV's investments in Twitter, Geni, Yammer, Millennial Media, Metaplace (Playdom/Disney), Jambool (Google), and Cloudshare.  George also co-led CRV’s investment in Scribd.

Previously, he was a general partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV). His directorships included: Accrue Software (Nasdaq:ACRU), Andale, Critical Path (Nasdaq:CPTH), Ovation Entertainment, Sandcastle (acquired by Adobe, Nasdaq:ADBE), Securify (acquired by Kroll-O'Gara, Nasdaq: KROG), Shutterfly (Nasdaq:SFLY) Supertracks (acquired by Centerspan) and Telebot (acquired by Z-Tel, Nasdaq: ZTEL).

Previously, George led the Nintendo 64 development business at Silicon Graphics, managed sales and marketing for virtual reality pioneer VPL Research, and served as a product marketeer at CATS Software. George is on the board of Stanford Student Enterprises (SSE Labs). He is also an advisor to X PRIZE. George earned a joint BS from MIT and MIT Sloan School of Business.