David Cheriton
David Cheriton
David Ross Cheritonis a Canadian computer scientist, mathematician, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and heads up the Distributed Systems Group. He is a distributed systems and networking expert with keen insight into identifying big market opportunities and building the architectures needed to address these opportunities. He has founded and invested in numerous widely successful technology companies - e.g. Google, where he was amongst the first investors; VMware, where...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth29 March 1951
CountryCanada