As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Larry Bohn focuses on identifying new investment opportunities within the software infrastructure, enterprise software applications and information technology sectors. In addition to Optaros, Larry currently is a board member of Venetica Corporation, Ping Identity Corporation, Black Duck Software, OzVision Global, and Demandware, Inc., which all are active General Catalyst investments.
Prior to joining General Catalyst, Larry was the chairman, president and CEO of NetGenesis, a market leading software and analytic solutions provider. In February 2000, Larry took the company public (NTGX) and in December 2001, NetGenesis was acquired by SPSS, Inc. (SPSS). Larry was also president of PC DOCS, Inc., a leading developer of document management software for enterprise networks and was senior vice president of marketing and business development at Interleaf, Inc..
An acknowledged thought leader, Larry has spoken at leading industry events such as Comdex and Seybold, and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Larry has been a board member and advisor to a number of private technology companies, including Enigma Inc., Metreo, and Bidder´s Edge. He is also a founder and the first president of OASIS, the industry consortium promoting XML adoption. Larry is an honors graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and holds a masters of arts degree in Structural Linguistics from Clark University. |