Biography

Eric Vishria

General Partner of Benchmark and Cerebras Lead Independent Director

Eric Vishria has been a non-executive member of our board of directors since May 2016, serves as our Lead Independent Director, and serves on our Audit Committee. 

Mr. Vishria has served as a General Partner of Benchmark, a venture capital firm, since July 2014. From August 2013 to August 2014, Mr. Vishria served as Vice President, Digital Magazines and Verticals at Yahoo! Inc., a web services provider. From November 2008 to August 2013, Mr. Vishria served as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of RockMelt, Inc., a social media web browser. He has served as a member of the board of directors of Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLT), a data solutions company, since September 2014. Mr. Vishria previously served as a member of the board of directors of Amplitude, Inc., a digital optimization company. He also serves as a member of the boards of directors of several private companies. 

Mr. Vishria holds a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University.

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