Managing Director with Sutter Hill Ventures

Jim White’s eclectic investment focus includes consumer facing, enterprise application and infrastructure solutions. In addition to Shutterfly, White currently serves on the board of Digital Chocolate, Forterra Systems, Inquira, Networks in Motion (NIM), 900Seconds, Object Reservoir, Radiance Technologies, Right Hemisphere, Satmetrix, and Vocalocity, and as a board observer at Data Domain and Infinera.

White joined Sutter Hill Ventures in 2000 from Macromedia Inc. In his four years with Macromedia he held the position of VP of Marketing and then GM of the Interactive Learning Division which was sold to IBM Software Group, becoming part of the IBM Mindspan Learning Solutions Division. Prior to Macromedia, White was a VP of Marketing for Silicon Graphics. In his eight years at SGI he helped to start and build their $1.5B 3D graphics workstation business. White began his career with the Hewlett-Packard Company in the PC division and was part of the core team that created the Vectra Product line, spending time in engineering, sales and product marketing.

White earned a BS in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard University.