Sergio brings to NVP more than 16 years of operational and investing experience from a wide range of business and consumer technology companies. Sergio is focused on early and growth equity investments in the business software, internet and media sectors. His current investments and board seats include BookRenter, Center'd and myYearbook. He is also a board participant and actively involved with M-Factor and Lending Club.
Sergio started his career at Morgan Stanley where he advised several private and public companies on mergers and acquisitions. Sergio was also a marketing executive at Portal Software (now a part of Oracle). Portal Software created one of the leading enterprise billing software platforms, had a successful Initial Public Offering in 1999 with which Sergio was involved, and eventually was successfully sold to Oracle. Sergio was also the co-founder and first sales and marketing executive at Cymerc, which was a hosted SaaS solution for small and medium businesses. Sergio successfully raised various rounds of venture financing and grew Cymerc from inception to more than $15 million in revenue.
From 2001 to 2005, Sergio was Director and General Manager of the consumer electronics division at eBay, which he grew from $150 million to more than $500 million in gross merchandise sales. Sergio was also a Director of New Ventures at eBay, where he pioneered several new marketplaces and initiatives. Most recently, Sergio was Vice President of Marketing at Photobucket, which grew virally to become one of the top 20 sites in the U.S. with more than 70 million unique visitors per month. Photobucket was successfully sold to News Corp. for $300 million in 2006.
Sergio holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.