Bernard Dalle | |
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Born |
Kreuzlingen, Switzerland |
July 8, 1967
Nationality | Swiss |
Alma mater |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Kellogg School of Management |
Occupation | Venture capitalist and investor, Index Ventures |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Bernard Dalle Operating Partner at Index Ventures, a global venture capital firm with offices in London, Geneva, Jersey (Channel Islands), and San Francisco. 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.
July 8, 1967 is theDalle was born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland and raised in Rabat, Morocco. He received a Master’s degee in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, 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 MBA, Dalle worked for four years with Procter & Gamble (P&G) in IT and Finance. At P&G he implemented enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. After his MBA, 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 Salesforce.com); B-hive (sold to VMware); DimDim (sold to Salesforce.com); FilesX (sold to IBM); Gluster (sold to RedHat for $136 million); and Worklight (sold to IBM).