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Since joining El Dorado Ventures in 2000, where he focuses his investments in software, Scott Irwin has been involved with EDV investments including Nextance, TriActive, Sana Security, MediaQ (acquired by nVidia) and Torrex (acquired by Applied Materials). Prior to El Dorado, Scott held software engineering and product management positions with Accenture, where he developed and managed enterprise software products targeting the energy industry. While at Accenture, Scott co-authored the firm's guide to Internet technologies in 1998, which was distributed to all Accenture's 65,000 employees worldwide. Scott also managed relationships with several venture-backed startups including application server companies such as Kiva/Netscape, NetDynamics/Sun, and WebLogic/BEA; middleware companies such as IONA and Visigenic; content management companies including Vignette and Broadvision; as well as leading IDE vendors. His early career experience was with the communications systems division of Rockwell International, later acquired by Alcatel. Scott received a Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he was a Venture Fellow and Welsh Scholar. | 