Tony Perkins

DFJ Frontier

Venture Partner

Biography

Tony Perkins is a Venture Partner of DFJ Frontier. He is the creator and former editor-in-chief of Red Herring and the CEO of AlwaysOn, an interactive online network for technology insiders. As the result of his prolific editorial output, he is consistently ranked as one of the top ten technology business journalists by Adweek's Technology Marketing magazine. Mr. Perkins has served on President George W. Bush's Information Technology Advisory Council and was the founding chairman of the Churchill Club in Palo Alto, California, for which he received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He also received the Albert Einstein Technology Medal from the State of Israel. He has been a member of the World Economic Forum's Media Leaders group since 1996. Mr. Perkins was founder and CEO of Upside Publishing and vice president of business development at Silicon Valley Bank.