Roger McNamee
Managing Director of Elevation Partners
Roger McNamee is a businessman, investor, venture capitalist, and musician. He is the founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. McNamee also co-founded private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and headed the T. Rowe Price Science and Technology Fund.
Who is…
- Elevation Partners investments have included Palm, Inc., Forbes, and perhaps most famously, Facebook..
- McNamee is the author of “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe,” and frequently speaks about the dark side of social media.
- An early investor in Facebook, McNamee became very critical of its impact on society and U.S. democracy and said he tried to warn Facebook about the impact of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections. He is now one of the 25 members of the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an independent group that monitors Facebook.
- He is a regular guest on “Squawk Alley” CNBC and on Ali Velshi’s show on MSNBC.
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