In 2015, The Doobie Brothers sued the band over the name. He played in the band Flying Other Brothers from 1997 to 2006, and now plays with the band Moonalice, using the stage persona of "Chubby Wombat Moonalice." In 2014 he formed a duo with Jason Crosby called the Doobie Decibel System. Elevation Partners investments have included Palm, Inc., Forbes, and Facebook. He currently serves as its managing director. In 2004, McNamee co-founded Elevation Partners along with a number of other investors including U2 frontman Bono. In 1999, McNamee was one of the founding partners of leveraged buyout firm Silver Lake Partners. In 1991 McNamee co-founded Integral Capital Partners with John Powell and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins to invest in expansion stage private companies and growth-stage public companies. īy 1989 he was leading the firm's Science & Technology Fund, a period when the fund returned about 17% annually to investors and, in a move atypical for mutual funds, he made venture capital investments in Electronic Arts (which went public in 1989) and Sybase (which had its IPO in 1991). Rowe Price as an analyst in 1982, after receiving his M.B.A. He has a BA in history from Yale University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. When McNamee was 12 years old, he protested against the Vietnam War, and volunteered for Eugene McCarthy's campaign for president. Barbara, his mother, was a feminist during the 60s. He was the president of the Albany chapter of the Urban League. His father, Daniel, was an investment banker. McNamee was born on May 2, 1956, in Albany, New York. Counting two groups, McNamee estimated that he had played 800 shows as of 2009. McNamee is also a touring musician, first as a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers, and more recently in that group's follow-on band, Moonalice. Prior to co-founding the firm, McNamee co-founded private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and headed the T.
He is the founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. Roger McNamee (born May 2, 1956) is an American businessman, investor, venture capitalist and musician. Businessman, venture capitalist, musician
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