Mike CordanoBoard of Directors
Jim McLean
Partner, 3i
Jim McLean joined 3i Venture in 2006 as a Partner based in Menlo Park. Jim's track record in the venture industry spans nearly two decades with experience at several of the industry's leading firms. Most recently, he was a Partner at ComVentures. Previously, he was a founder of Bedrock Capital Partners where he led the Information Technology practice. Prior to Bedrock, he served as a Partner at Highland Capital Partners and as an associate at Accel Partners.
Over his career, Jim has led a number of successful investments including UUNet (sold to Worldcom), Polycom (PLCM), Alantec (sold to Fore Systems), Centillion (sold to Nortel), Boston Communications Group (BCGI), NewCity (sold to Clear Channel), New Oak (sold to Nortel), Sonus (SONS), Arbinet (ARBX), SiteSmith (sold to Metromedia) and V-Bits (sold to Cisco).
Jim began his career in the technology industry with positions at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, L.M. Ericsson and Network Equipment Technologies. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's of science degree in Engineering and Sciences and received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.