Boards: GoodLeap, Landon School, NVIDIA, Tenable.

A. Brooke Seawell joined New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 2005 as a venture partner, focusing on software, systems, and Internet investments. Brooke currently serves on the board of directors and as audit chair of NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), Tenable (Nasdaq: TENB), and GoodLeap. He is also on the board of trustees of Landon School in Bethesda, MD. Brooke brings 40-plus years of experience in technology finance and operations.

From 2000 to 2004, Brooke was a partner with Technology Crossover Ventures. Prior to that, he was executive vice president of NetDynamics, an application server software company, acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998. From 1991 to 1997, Brooke was senior vice president, finance and operations, and chief financial officer (CFO) of Synopsys, an electronic design automation software company, which he took public in 1992. From 1983 to 1991, Brooke served as vice president, finance, and production and CFO of Weitek, a fabless semiconductor company, which he took public in 1988. Previously, he had co-founded, and was CFO of Southwall Technologies, a complex-thin-film-coatings company.

As a founder, officer, investor or director, Brooke has been involved in 12 IPOs: Accrue Software, ArcSight, Eargo, Glu Mobile, Informatica, Mediaplex, NVIDIA, Southwall Technologies, Synopsys, Tableau Software, Tenable, and Weitek. He was also involved in 14 strategic acquisitions: Acquia (acquired by Vista), CoWare (acquired by Synopsys), Eargo (acquired by Patient Square Capital), Extricity (acquired by Peregrine Systems), Informatica (acquired by Permira), Lithium Technologies (acquired by Vista), NetDynamics (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Rasna (acquired by Parametric Technology), SiliconBlue (acquired by Lattice Semiconductor), SiTime (acquired by MegaChips), SugarCRM (acquired by Accel-KKR), Tableau Software (acquired by Salesforce), Telegent Systems (acquired by Spreadtrum Communications) and TimesTen (acquired by Oracle). Brooke has been audit chair for eight public companies.

Brooke received a bachelor degree in economics from Stanford University and a master of business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Brooke served on the management board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2008 to 2012 and served on the Stanford Athletic Board from 2013 to 2017.