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Management
Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf, Managing Partner
Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf has been a successful tech entrepreneur and investor for the past two decades. YL Ventures, which he founded, invests early in core-technology software companies in and around the Internet, and accelerates their evolution via value-added involvement and Silicon Valley-based business development.
Mr. Leitersdorf currently serves on the boards of four YL Ventures portfolio companies: ClickTale (customer experience analytics), Upstream Commerce (automated competitive pricing analytics), 6Scan (website security suite) and BlazeMeter (self-service load testing cloud), and is the lead investor of Seculert (security threat intelligence). Mr. Leitersdorf served on the board of AcceloWeb (browser experience optimization) until it was acquired by Limelight Networks.
Mr. Leitersdorf was the CEO and cofounder of Movota (mobile gaming) acquired by Bertelsmann, the CTO and cofounder of ExchangePath (online payments) acquired by CMGI, and the CEO and cofounder of PcEnterntainer Magazine. Mr. Leitersdorf was also an associate at DFJ Gotham Ventures, studied at IMD, and holds an MBA from Columbia University.
John G. Quigley, Partner
John G. Quigley is a longtime private equity and venture capital investor. He was a founder and managing partner of Nassau Capital, the independent firm established in the mid '90s to exclusively manage the Princeton University endowment’s alternative investments.
Nassau was formed with the mandate to invest for Princeton across the spectrum of venture capital, private equity, real estate and energy, both in funds and directly. The firm’s investment performance during the decade following its launch fueled a period of extraordinary growth by the Princeton endowment (today roughly $16 billion in size).
Mr. Quigley was a partner during the '80s of Adler & Shaykin, a pioneering firm in the leveraged buyout business. In the early '90s he was a founder of Clipper Capital Partners, then the exclusive merchant banking arm of CS First Boston. He began his career as an attorney with Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago. Mr. Quigley has served as a director of a wide range of businesses, and as a member of several private equity firms’ advisory boards.
Mr. Quigley is a graduate of Georgetown (A.B., summa cum laude), Stanford (J.D., M.B.A.) and Columbia (M.Phil.). He has taught on private equity, venture capital and entrepreneurial finance at Princeton, Columbia, NYU and Stanford.
Robert Goldberg, Venture Partner
Robert Goldberg, Venture Partner at YL Ventures, serves on the board of directors of YL Ventures’ portfolio company ClickTale. For over 30 years, Mr. Goldberg has combined the skills of entrepreneurship with early stage venture investing, helping lead three companies to the public markets as well as being involved with over two dozen other successful exits.
Most recently Mr. Goldberg was a member of the early Executive Team at Zynga, serving as Senior Vice President of Business Operations and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, where he helped contribute to the meteoric early growth of the company from 50 to over 2500 employees and $1B+ in revenue. During his tenure at Zynga, Mr. Goldberg helped build and manage many of the growth-driving business functions including Strategy, Business/Corporate Development, Revenue, Marketing, Partnership Management, and International.
Mr. Goldberg also founded and currently continues as the Managing Director of Crossroads Ventures, an early stage venture fund, and continues as Venture Partner with YL Ventures. Prior to Crossroads Ventures, Mr. Goldberg was the Managing Director of Venture Operations at Idealab, where he pioneered the capital-efficient strategy of "innovation through milestone investing" which tied frequent operating and innovation milestones to successive capital investments.
Before joining Idealab, Mr. Goldberg spent more than 20 years in senior management, corporate investment and strategy positions at media, e-commerce and enterprise software companies, including NBC/NBCi, Looksmart, and Thinking Machines. Mr. Goldberg holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Applied Science from Columbia University in New York City.
Ofer Schreiber, Analyst
Ofer Schreiber, Analyst at YL Ventures, has broad responsibilities across deal sourcing, investment due diligence and portfolio company value-add.
Mr. Schreiber joined the firm from IVC Research Center where he spent nearly three years researching and analyzing the technology and venture capital industry. While at IVC, he specialized in the telecommunications, Internet and mobile sectors and also conducted research relating to investment firms.
Mr. Schreiber holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Tel Aviv University. He served in an elite technological unit of the Intelligence Corps in the Israel Defense Forces.
Tal Schwartz
Co-Founder and CEO
ClickTale
Alon Girmonsky
Founder and CEO
BlazeMeter
Yoav's personal commitment to us was strong from investment to exit. He rolled up his sleeves and worked hard for AcceloWeb. He was responsive and efficient – getting back to us quickly, prioritizing our needs at the top."
Ofer Gadish
Co-Founder and CEO
AcceloWeb
