Heidi Roizen is an accomplished executive with over twenty years of senior management experience in the technology industry. She has achieved success as an entrepreneur, a corporate executive, and most recently as a corporate director and venture capitalist. She has held positions of leadership within a number of industry organizations, and is a recognized and popular spokesperson for the technology industry.
Today, Roizen is a Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital, a technology venture fund with $2 billion under management. Roizen serves on the Boards of Directors of Reactrix, Perpetual Entertainment, Ecast and AuctionDrop. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association, where she is on the Executive Committee and chairs the MAGNET initiative on national competitiveness. Roizen is also involved in various educational, political and nonprofit organizations and initiatives.
A member of the board of directors of the Software Publishers Association (SPA) from 1987 to 1994, Roizen served as its president from 1988 to 1990. She also served on the board of Great Plains Software from 1997 until its acquisition by Microsoft in 2001, and is a past Public Governor of the Pacific Exchange.
From 1996 to 1997, as Vice President of World Wide Developer Relations for Apple Computer, Roizen was responsible for building and maintaining relationships between Apple and its developers worldwide. She and her 300-person team served as the primary contact point for major partners such as Microsoft, Lotus and Adobe, as well as 12,000 other firms, emerging and established, providing products for the Macintosh platform.
From 1983 to 1996, Roizen was co-founder and CEO of T/Maker Company, a successful developer and publisher of personal computer software. T/Maker, backed by venture firms Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Draper Fisher, shipped a number of innovative products in word processing, desktop publishing and multimedia, achieved market leadership in image content software with it's ClickArtŪ line, and was ultimately acquired in 1994 by Deluxe Corporation. Roizen's principal functions at T/Maker included strategic planning, product planning and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, fundraising, recruiting, managing the relationship between T/Maker and Deluxe, and directing the senior management team.
Heidi Roizen holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University (1980) and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (1983). She is 48 years old and lives with her husband (orthopaedic surgeon David Mohler) and two daughters in Atherton, California.