从Accel跳槽到KPCB，投资facebook的关键人物

For quite some time, renowned venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers has been looking for a partner who can focus on investing in web startups, we’ve been hearing.

Now they’ve finally found somebody. Chi-Hua Chien, an associate at Accel Partners who has spearheaded a number of web-related initiatives, has joined Kleiner as a partner.

Chien will be focusing on investments in “internet applications, mobile applications, online advertising technologies, and enabling internet infrastructure,” according to an email about his departure intercepted by Megan McCarthy at Wired.

Kleiner has a profile of Chien up on their site, that says he has been on board since last year.

As an Accel associate and “venture advisor,” Chien helped bring about Accel’s investment in Facebook and AdECN — the former company recently received a huge investment from Microsoft and the latter company was acquired by it. He has also worked on the firm’s investments in BitTorrent, fbFund, Glam, Trulia, and YuMe Networks, according to the profile.

He previously held marketing and financial roles at Coremetrics, worked in corporate development at Google, business development, and had business development roles at eCoverage and Morgan Stanley’s Technology Group.

[Update: Comment below refers to how a “partner” at Kleiner means something different from Accel. The venture world is arcane, and firms don’t make it any easier because the exact nature of each partner’s arrangement in a firm is usually confidential. Accel has been poached before. In 2006, Peter Fenton left Accel to join Benchmark, and Jim Goetz left to Sequoia two years before. Much has been made of Benchmark’s model of extreme democracy among partners, and word was that Fenton left Accel for that reason, i.e., to be an equal partner rather than a junior partner at Accel. However, Accel has since moved to promote its junior partners more aggressively. It’s not clear why Chien would have left to join Kleiner, which had been advertising for an “associate partner” position, i.e., a junior partner. We’re trying to find out more.]

Chi-Hua Chien joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2007. Prior to KPCB, Chi-Hua worked with Accel Partners as a Venture Advisor and Associate focusing on digital media, software as a service, consumer Internet, and online advertising infrastructure companies. Chi-Hua was instrumental in Accel’s investments in AdECN (acquired by MSFT) and Facebook, while also working on the firm’s investments in BitTorrent, fbFund, Glam, Trulia, and YuMe Networks.

Previously, Chi-Hua was the Director of Marketing at hosted software provider Coremetrics, where he led the marketing and inside sales teams as the company grew from 20 to 200 customers and also served as interim CFO. During his tenure, he successfully launched multiple generations of the Coremetrics platform and helped the company achieve a leadership position in the ecommerce web analytics market. Chi-Hua’s prior roles include corporate development at Google where he covered the digital video market and coordinated the company’s first acquisition in China, business development at start-up eCoverage, and investment banking with Morgan Stanley’s Technology Group.

Chi-Hua has an MS in Industrial Engineering, BS in Industrial Engineering, and BA in Economics, all from Stanford University where he was named a Mayfield Fellow and President’s Scholar. He also earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Chi-Hua remains involved with Stanford and co-teaches the fall quarter installment of the Engineering School’s undergraduate entrepreneurship class (E145).

E-mail: chihuac@kpcb.com