William B. Elmore
General Partner
Foundation Capital
Bill Elmore is general partner at Foundation Capital in Menlo Park. In creating Foundation Capital in 1995, Mr. Elmore was continuing his long history of building strong organizations from the inside. Before Foundation Capital, he was a general partner at Inman & Bowman for eight years, and before that, he worked as the president of Visual Engineering, a graphics software supplier, and in a variety of key marketing management roles at Hewlett-Packard.
As director and past president of the Western Association for Venture Capitalists, and in his role as a director of the National Venture Capital Association, Mr. Elmore is actively involved in defining, serving and representing the interests of the venture capital and private equity industries.
Mr. Elmore holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BSEE and MSEE from Purdue University.
