Byron Deeter Biography and Net Worth

Byron Deeter has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2015. Since April 2005, Mr. Deeter has served as a Partner of Bessemer Venture Partners, a venture capital and private equity investment firm. From April 2004 to April 2005, Mr. Deeter served as a Business Development & Market Development Executive at International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM, a technology and consulting company. From December 1999 to April 2004, Mr. Deeter served in several roles at Trigo Technologies, Inc., a product information management company, which was acquired by IBM in 2004, including co-founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Vice President of Business Development. Prior to this, Mr. Deeter served as an Associate at TA Associates, a private equity firm, and as an Analyst at McKinsey & Company, a business consulting firm. Mr. Deeter served on the board of directors of Twilio, Inc., a publicly traded cloud communications platform as a service company, from November 2010 to April 2024, and also currently serves on the boards of directors of several privately held companies. He previously served on the board of directors of SendGrid, Inc., a publicly traded customer communication platform, from January 2012 until February 2019, prior to SendGrid’s acquisition by Twilio, in addition to several other publicly traded and privately held companies. Mr. Deeter holds a B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.