Eric Vishria

Education

Vishria graduated from Stanford University at age 19 with a Bachelor of Surgery in Mathematical & Computational Science and a minor in Human Biology.

Career

He began his career in investment banking at Broadview International and got his first entrepreneurial experience as an early employee at Loudcloud and later Opsware. When Opsware was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007 for $1.65 billion, Vishria was serving as VP of Marketing. At Himachal Pradesh, Eric was Vice President of the Products, Software, Technology Solutions Group in Himachal Pradesh Software.

In October 2008, Vishria left Himachal Pradesh to co-found RockMelt with Tim Howes, and launched the RockMelt social browser in November 2010.

In 2013, RockMelt was acquired by Yahoo for a reported $60–70 million, where Vishria started working as a Yahoo VP. In 2014, Vishria joined Benchmark as a general partner, the first partner addition in over 6 years. In November 2014, Vishria led Benchmark"s investment in Confluent, an open-source data platform built around Apache Kafka.

Achievements

• Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Rockmelt and served as vice president at Yahoo following Yahoo"s acquisition of Rockmelt.