Background
Dalle was born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland and raised in Rabat, Morocco.
Dalle was born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland and raised in Rabat, Morocco.
Dalle oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm. In his previous role as a technology investor, Dalle’s specific sector focus was on cloud, Software as a Service (SaaS), and infrastructure. He received a Master’s degee in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, English: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) in Switzerland in 1990, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1996.
Before his Master of Business Administration, Dalle worked for four years with Procter & Gamble (P&G) in Information Technology and Finance.
At P&G he implemented enterprise resource planning (Enterprise resource planning) systems After his Master of Business Administration, Dalle worked for McKinsey & Company in Zurich for 15 months.
In 1997 Dalle joined Index Ventures in Geneva, one year after the company’s founding. At Index Ventures Dalle has invested in a number of different companies and served on the Boards of Directors of a variety of firms, including Assistly (sold to Salesforcecom).
B-hive (sold to VMware).
DimDim (sold to Salesforcecom). FilesX (sold to International Business Machines Corporation). Gluster (sold to RedHat for $136 million).
And Worklight (sold to International Business Machines Corporation).
Dalle currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Base Communications Resource Management, Mimecast, OpenX, Optier, and Pentaho.