Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Jeff McCarthy, General Partner, has a successful entrepreneurial track record in communications. As an investor he focuses mainly on materials.

When Jeff joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 1998, he was well known to the company's founding partners through his leadership roles at two early, successful companies within the North Bridge portfolio Cadia Networks and New Oak Communications and at Wellfleet Communications, an investment of the North Bridge founder.

He was CEO of New Oak Communications, a leading provider of VPN switches, when the company was acquired by Bay Networks (a Nortel line of business). Subsequently, North Bridge acquired Jeff.