Maria is an executive marketing leader, technology product builder, and startup advisor; leveraging over 20 years’ experience to successfully bring consumer and business software products to market. She’s currently a Partner and Head of Growth at Madrona Venture Labs, a Seattle startup studio, building multiple startups each year. Throughout a series of strategic senior leadership roles, she’s led marketing, product, and growth in both big tech (Google, Amazon, and Expedia) and successful startups (Picnik, PicMonkey, Likewise).

Craig Sherman is a partner in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on corporate and securities laws, representing companies, venture capital firms, and investment banks in private placements and public offerings. He also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, and domestic and international joint ventures. Craig earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1989. He received M.A. and B.A. degrees from Stanford University in 1985.

Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades.

Geoff represents PSL on the Board of Directors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner.

A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.

Sudip joined Madrona in 2018. Sudip is particularly interested in companies that are transforming the enterprise, cloud and infrastructure markets. He especially enjoys working with technical founders – sharing his own experiences as a technical founder and helping them to build successful teams and businesses.

Past Lives

Prior to joining Madrona, Sudip was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he led or co-led investments in Streamlio, Serverless, Rainnet, Exabeam and, a Madrona portfolio company, Heptio. He started his investing career at Osage University Partners and subsequently was an enterprise investor at Andreessen Horowitz where he was involved with companies such as Actifio, Databricks, Digital Ocean, Forward Networks, Mesosphere and Samsara.

Before venturing into early-stage investing, Sudip was an entrepreneur and an engineer. He started his first company when he was at Georgia Tech, and his second while in business school. In between, he spent a few years as an engineer building complex software systems at Synopsys.

This experience of founding enterprise technology-oriented businesses led Sudip to the venture side and he has been investing in enterprise and open source software companies since that time. His founder experience gives him direct insight into the challenges of startups which involve ups and downs and persistence. He strives to be a trusted partner to every entrepreneur he works with.

Education

Sudip received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur.

Andrew Klein has been working with startups and emerging growth companies for over 12 years as a founder and as an outside advisor for both the entrepreneurial team and their investors.  In this capacity he has managed the strategic operations, company exits, and funding of companies in a variety of industries with specific expertise in SaaS, Healthcare, Hospitality & Consumer Products, and Energy/Construction.  Companies with Andrew's direct involvement have raised almost $70 million in debt and equity. He also has a strong passion for entrepreneurship and connecting people together as shown in his involvement as a TechStars Alumni, mentor at 9Mile Labs Accelerator, a teacher at General Assembly, and in running the meetup group Cigars & Startups.  He holds a BS in accounting and an MBA focused on entrepreneurial finance both from Seattle University.

Tina Scott is an attorney at Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, based in the firm’s  Seattle office. She focuses her business practice on commercial transactions for owners in a variety of industries, including technology, real estate, and construction. As part of her corporate practice, Tina reviews, drafts, and negotiates a wide variety of contracts in support of day-to-day operations, as well as for significant transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, and partnerships. She began her career with the firm as a summer associate in the business department.  During law school, she served as a legal extern for a real estate brokerage where she worked on regulatory matters and drafted demand letters. Tina’s recognition and honors include King County Bar Foundation Scholar, 2015 & 2016 and Labor, Law, and Employment Association, Director of Events, 2015