Bill Coleman

Bill Coleman is a Partner . Previously Bill was Founder, Chairman and CEO of Cassatt, Inc. an enterprise cloud software company which was acquired by CA, Inc. in 2009. In 1995, he founded BEA Systems, Inc. for which he developed the vision and business plan, recruited the other two other principals, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang and raised the Series A funding from Warburg Pincus (the only funding round required until the IPO in 1997). Bill was Chairman and CEO of the company from its founding through September 2001 during which BEA became the fastest software company ever to reach a billion dollars in annual revenue, a record that still stands today. Prior to BEA, Bill held various management positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc., including: co-founder of Sun Federal; founder, vice president and general manager of Sun Professional Services; and vice president of system software overseeing SunOS, the initial development of Solaris and related system administration, networking and management products. Before his work at Sun, Coleman co-founded and was vice president of engineering at Dest Systems. Prior to that, he was the director of product development at VisiCorp where he oversaw publishing of the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc; development of the first office suite of personal computer productivity applications, the “Visi Series”; and development of the first personal computer window system, VisiOn. As general manager of the high frequency systems group at GTE Sylvania he grew his systems business from $12m to $36M in less than three years. Coleman began his career in the U.S. Air Force as chief of satellite operations in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force supporting the National Reconnaissance Organization. Coleman has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and master’s degrees in computer science and computer engineering from Stanford University.