Biography
Jeff Epstein
Audit Committee Chair
Twilio
Current public company boards: Kaiser Permanente, Shutterstock, Twilio,
Prior public company boards: N/A
Executive Experience: Jeff Epstein, an operating partner in Bessemer Venture Partner’s Silicon Valley office, works with Bessemer portfolio company CFOs and CEOs to share and implement best practices.
He leads the Bessemer Venture Partners CFO advisory board, where over 1 BVP portfolio company CFOs meet in person and online to help each other improve their effectiveness.
Jeff specializes in marketplaces and B2B software companies. He teaches the Lean Launchpad class at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Engineering with Steve Blank. He serves on the boards of directors of Kaiser Permanente, Twilio, Shutterstock, and several private companies.
He is the former executive vice president and chief financial officer of Oracle, one of the world’s largest and most profitable technology companies, with a market value of over $15 billion.
Prior to joining Oracle, Jeff served as chief financial officer of several public and private companies, including DoubleClick (sold to Google), King World Productions (sold to CBS) and Nielsen’s Media Measurement and Information Group. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker at The First Boston Corporation.
Additional information: He holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA from Yale College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.