PAULA BROOKS

A serial angel investor, Paula was an active leader during the formative years of the software industry. She was first an executive at various enterprise infrastructure technology companies, then an entrepreneur, and later an angel investor and active director of several more including WebMethods, Descartes Systems Group and Systems Center. She was a member of the board of ADAPSO, the software industry’s only trade association at the time, and later helped found and served on the boards of the PC software board within that association.

Active in the political world, she served as a White House Fellows Commissioner under President George W. Bush, was on the board of the Seneca Network, a board member of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, served on the Board of Governors of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine, the foundation board at UCSF and the California Chamber of Commerce. Most recently she was a vintner for 15 years as the co-owner of Dancing Hares Vineyard.