Jeffrey J. Rothschild

Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild
Residence Los Altos, California, USA
Alma mater Vanderbilt University
Occupation Businessman
Net worth US$1.67 billion (July 2015)[1]
Spouse(s) married
Children 3

Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild is an American billionaire entrepreneur and business executive.

Life

Jeffrey Rothschild was born around 1955. He graduated from the Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science in Nashville, Tennessee in 1977.[2][3] He received a master's degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering in 1979.[2] He is not a member of the Rothschild family.[4]

He worked as an engineer at Honeywell and Intel, and then for a consulting firm that worked on projects such as Locus Computing Corporation.[5] Rothschild co-founded Veritas Software in 1988.[4] He co-founded Mpath Interactive in 1995, which became a public company in 1999.[4] He is listed as co-inventor on several MPath patents.[6][7] In 1999 he became an advisor and venture partner at the venture capital firm Accel Partners.[5] In 2003, he co-founded Mendocino Software, with fellow former-Veritas executives Peter Levine and Steve Colman.[8][9] Mendocino shut down quietly by March 2008.[10][11]

Rothschild started working for Facebook in 2005.[4] He was the oldest person working for Facebook at the time.[4] He became Facebook's vice president of infrastructure software.[4] In 2012, he owned 18 million Facebook shares.[4]

In 2015, he was worth an estimated US$1.67 billion.[1] He serves on the board of trust of his alma mater, Vanderbilt University.[12] Rothschild is married, and he has three children.[1] He resides in Palo Alto, California.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Forbes 2015: #1324 Jeff Rothschild
  2. 1 2 Engineering alumnus elected to Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, May 1, 2014
  3. ↑ Jeffrey J. Rothschild, Bloomberg Business
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ryan Mac, Meet New Billionaire Jeff Rothschild, The Engineer Who Saved Facebook From Crashing, Forbes, February 28, 2014
  5. 1 2 "Jeff Rothschild". Team profile. Accel Partners. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ Daniel Joseph Samuel, Marc Peter Kwiatkowski, Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild (July 18, 1997). "Server-group messaging system for interactive applications". US Patent US6018766 A. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild; et al. (March 6, 1997). "Online gaming architecture". US Patent US 6152824 A. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities" (PDF). June 24, 2004. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Mendocino Software raises $15 million". San Francisco Business Times. March 30, 2004. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  10. ↑ Jerome M. Wendt (February 11, 2008). ""No Comment" from HP; No Callback From Mendocino Software". DCIG blog. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  11. ↑ Dave Raffo (February 11, 2008). "Mendocino Software, R.I.P.". Search Storage. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  12. 1 2 Vanderbilt University Board of Trust: Members
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