David Tennenhouse Partner

Dr. David Tennenhouse, Partner, joined New Venture Partners and opened its Silicon Valley office in 2007. He is focused on developing relationships with corporate and government-funded R&D teams. David joined New Venture Partners from Amazon.com, where he was Vice President of Platform Strategy and CEO of its A9.com subsidiary.

Prior to Amazon/A9, David was Vice President and Director of Research at Intel Corporation, where he pioneered an "open collaborative" approach to corporate research. This was, in part, based on his earlier work as DARPA's Chief Scientist and Director of its Information Technology Office. At both DARPA and Intel, David was involved in the strategic planning and execution of programs related to a wide range of technologies, including networking, wireless communications, computer architecture, distributed computing, machine learning, search / data mining, image processing, robotics, MEMs, healthcare, and nano/bio-technology.

David is a member of the ACM and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is currently a Director at Real Time Content, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the International Computer Sciences Institute (ICSI). He is also an advisor to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate; Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science; and the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley. He has held academic appointments at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and in the Sloan School of Management.

He holds a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and obtained his Ph.D. at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.