Alex Gurevich

DFJ VTB Aurora

Principal

Biography

Alex Gurevich is a Principal at DFJ VTB Aurora based out of the Silicon Valley office. His areas of interest and expertise include online consumer media, telecommunications, consumer electronics, e-commerce, clean energy, and nanotechnology.

Prior to DFJ VTB Aurora, Alex was the first employee and Director of Business Development at Ooma, a DFJ portfolio company in the VoIP (voice over IP) space, where he led his company's initial product roll out, customer acquisition and channel distribution strategy. Alex was also co-founder of Say-Hey-Hey.com, one of the web's first free video dating sites, where he was in charge of all product development, fundraising, and business development efforts and took the company from initial concept to revenue generation. He and his work have been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, ABC News and Forbes. Alex also serves as a key advisor to several Silicon Valley early stage start-ups, as well as the Global Technology Symposium - the premier investor conference on emerging markets.

Education: Alex holds a B.S. in Management Science and Engineering, and a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University, where he was also a Mayfield Fellow. He holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University as well. While at Stanford, Alex studied in Moscow and interned at the Russian Federation's Working Center for Economic Reform. He also led major technology centered research projects at General Motors and IBM for Stanford's Center for Work, Technology, and Organization.