Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Investor Stage

Seed

Thomas Alberg is the Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group. He also serves as Board Member at Impinj. He also serves as a Director at Amazon.com. He is the Founder of Raven Trust Fund. He actively works in support of Madrona and its portfolio companies. Tom is a director for Impinj, a former Madrona Portfolio Company that is now a public company. Tom has served on the boards of numerous public and private companies and is a director of Amazon.com on which he has served since before it went public in 1997. Tom is co-chair of ACES Northwest Network, a coalition of businesses supporting the implementation of autonomous, connected, electric and shared vehicles in the region. He serves on the boards of TechNet Northwest, the Pacific Science Center, and Challenge Seattle. He was formerly a member of President Obama's National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is also on the Investment Committee of the Seattle Foundation. Ranked number 12 of the 35 most influential business leaders in the Seattle area by Puget Sound Business Journal. Immediately prior to co-founding Madrona Investment Group in 1995, Tom served as president of public companies LIN Broadcasting Corporation and Executive Vice President of McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. Previously, he was chair of the Executive Committee and Partner in the Northwest's largest law firm, Perkins Coie, where he was principal counsel for The Boeing Company, Alaska Airlines and a number of early technology companies. Before that he was an attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. He is past chair of the Washington State Technology Alliance and the Discovery Institute, past chair of the Pacific Science Center and past president of Intiman Theater in Seattle. He served as an Independent Director at The W Fund. He was co-chair of the capital campaign for the Computer Science and Engineering Department's building at the University of Washington. Alberg received a B.A. in international affairs from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.