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Leslie Ventures is the investment vehicle for Mark Leslie. Mark Leslie was Co-Founder and Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. During his tenure as CEO, the company went from 12 employees to 6,000 employees, and from a revenue base of $95,000 per year to $1,500,000,000 per year. Mark is a current or former member of the boards of (or is an advisor to) a number of privately held high-technology corporations, including Context Relevant, Interana, StratoScale, Vera, Veritas, Yellowbrick, ZeroStack and Zerto. He has served on approximately fifty public and private boards including Avaya, Big Switch, Brocade, Model N, NetApp, Nutanix, Pure Storage, SeaMicro, Skybox, Veritas and Webex. Leslie serves on the NYU Board of Trustees, the Board of Overseers for the NYU Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Board of Overseers of the Tandon School of Engineering and as a member of the Executive Board of the NYU Innovation Fund. Leslie is also on the boards of Stanford Health Care, New York University and the Leslie Family Foundation. He is also a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship, Sales and Ethics. In 2015 NYU opened doors to a 5,900-square-foot lab, financed by a multimillion-dollar gift from Leslie and his wife, Debra.
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