Michael Smerklo

Michael Smerklo is an entrepreneur and investor, and the co-founder and managing director of Next Coast Ventures, a venture capital firm that backs founders building disruptive technology companies. Earlier in his career he bought and scaled ServiceSource from a small business into a publicly traded company with more than 3,000 employees worldwide, and he was an early employee at the cloud pioneer Opsware, formerly Loudcloud. He writes for Forbes, guest lectures at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and serves on numerous boards. He is the author of Mr. Monkey and Me: A Real Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs.