Jeffrey J. Rothschild

Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild
Residence	Los Altos, California, USA
Alma mater	Vanderbilt University
Occupation	Businessman
Net worth	US$1.67 billion (July 2015)
Spouse(s)	Marieke Rothschild
Children	3

Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild is an American billionaire entrepreneur, business executive and philanthropist. A patent-holder, he is the co-founder of several companies. He is a founding engineer and large shareholder of Facebook.

Jeffrey Rothschild was born around 1955. He is not a member of the Rothschild family. He graduated from the Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science in Nashville, Tennessee in 1977. He received a master's degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering in 1979.

Rothschild worked as an engineer at Honeywell and Intel, and then for a consulting firm that worked on projects such as Locus Computing Corporation. Rothschild co-founded Veritas Software in 1988. He co-founded Mpath Interactive in 1995, which became a public company in 1999.

Rothschild is listed as co-inventor on several MPath patents. In 1999 he became an advisor and venture partner at the venture capital firm Accel Partners.

In 2003, Rothschild co-founded Mendocino Software, with fellow former-Veritas executives Peter Levine and Steve Colman. Mendocino shut down quietly by March 2008.

Rothschild started working for Facebook in 2005. He was the oldest person working for Facebook at the time. He became Facebook's vice president of infrastructure software. In 2012, he owned 18 million Facebook shares.

Rothschild serves on the board of trust of his alma mater, Vanderbilt University. In December 2016, he donated $20 million to the university.

Rothschild married Texas and Arizona Attorney Michelle Scopellite in 1982 and they divorced in 1984. Rothschild has a wife, Marieke, who grew up in The Netherlands, and three children. He resides in Palo Alto, California. He was worth an estimated US$1.67 billion in 2015.

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