Ms. Theresia Gouw is a Co-Founding Partner and serves as Managing Director at Acrew Capital. She also serves as Board Member at Ketch. She also serves as Treasurer of the Board at Brown University. She serves as Advisory Board Member at Non Sibi Ventures. She was a Co-Founder at Aspect Ventures. Aspect invests across sectors but has particular expertise in cybersecurity, enterprise software and solutions targeting the future of work, and digital health. She has led the firm's early investments in Cato Networks, Deserve, Exabeam, ForeScout (FSCT), The Muse, PredictHQ, Crew, and ShieldX Networks. Prior to Aspect, She was a Managing General Partner at Accel where she championed many successful companies through IPOs or acquisitions including Imperva (IMPV), Trulia (TRLA), LearnVest (Northwestern Mutual), Jasper Design (CDNS) and Kosmix (WMT). As an entrepreneur, She was founding Vice President of Business Development and Sales at Release Software, a venture-backed company that provided SaaS to enable digital rights management and payment technologies for the software industry. Earlier, she worked at Bain & Company and as a product manager at Silicon Graphics. She holds an ScB in Engineering from Brown University, magna cum laude, and an MBA from Stanford University. She serves as Treasurer of Brown University's Corporation board, Vice-Chair of Donorschoose.org, and at Stanford co-teaches a course on Venture Capital at the GSB. She also serves on the GSB Advisory Council and DAPER investment fund. She is a first-generation immigrant and a passionate supporter of educational causes that support immigration and diversity in STEM. In November of 2016, she gave a TEDx talk titled "How Entrepreneurs Can Help the American Dream get its Mojo Back". She also serves as Board Member at Observable, Solv Health and ShieldX. She is the Founding Partner at First Close Partners.
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