With over 20 years experience on leadership teams of successful, high-growth information technology companies, Peter applies his background and perspective to helping entrepreneurs form and build successful businesses. He joined Sigma in 2002 and brings his deep understanding of the evaluation and implementation of leading edge information technology. Pete invests across the entire spectrum of information technology products and services.

Prior to joining Sigma, Peter had a very successful 10-year career at Cisco Systems. His contributions as Senior Vice President & CIO, and founder & general manager of the Internet Business Solutions Group helped make Cisco one of the most successful companies of our time. During his tenure from 1992-2002, Cisco achieved wide recognition for early and aggressive use of the Internet, e-commerce and information technology, including being a very early customer of supply chain and e-commerce industry leaders like Ariba, Siebel and webMethods. During Peter’s time at Cisco the company experienced explosive success, growing from $300 million to well over $20 billion in annual sales run rate. Prior to Cisco, Peter spent 11 years at Apple Computer. He held a number of senior IT management roles supporting the rapid growth and global expansion of the firm and oversaw the Apple Online Services Group.

Peter was named to the CIO 100 4 times by CIO Magazine; selected as one of "The 25 Most Powerful Executives in Networking" by Network World; and featured in four Harvard Business School case studies on the successful use of information technology in the enterprise. He has often been quoted in articles on IT and eBusiness in Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Economist, the New York Times, Information Week, CIO Magazine and many other publications and books. Peter has been a keynote speaker at over 50 industry conferences on information technology and eBusiness.

CIO Insight Magazine, November 5, 2005
“Ex-CIO Spends Venture Capital on More Than Just Tech”

Milestone Group, January 2006
“Investment Viewpoint”

B.S. in Business Administration, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

solvik@sigmapartners.com

Jill Salamanca
jill@sigmapartners.com

• Applied Identity
• Centrify
• Digital Fuel Technologies
• Docusign
• Encover
• Enkata
• Entellium
• KACE
• Noetix

• Topio (Network Appliance)