Venture capital allows Sharon Wienbar to combine her many talents and interests: an engineer’s excitement about the possibilities of new technology, a consultant’s disciplined, analytical vision of markets, and an entrepreneur’s passion to make new products come alive.

Sharon brings these qualities together to build traction for business and consumer software and services companies at Scale Venture Partners, which she joined in 2001. She helped Bellamax and Teros identify and target cost-efficient, leadership market segments for their technologies. With her counsel, FaceTime expanded its strategy and technology development and acquired international operations. She supported Biz360′s transition from an analytic tools company to a market information services model. Sharon is famous for nabbing her investment in Glu Mobile by pushing the CEO to gain market share more aggressively, and she has worked closely with the company to drive international success. Sharon sits on the boards of Bellamax, Biz360, Facetime Communications, Glu Mobile, Merchant Circle, Myelin Repair Foundation, and Reply.com.

Prior to Scale Venture Partners, Sharon spent 15 years at Critical Path, Amplitude Software, Adobe Systems and Bain & Company. Among her varied responsibilities, she directed marketing strategies and operations, integrated product and service businesses following acquisitions, managed the application of technology to Pacific Rim and European markets, and negotiated complex intellectual property licenses.

With a BA and MA in Engineering from Harvard University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Sharon has the expertise and background to ensure her companies get traction in their markets.

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