Anthony Sun

Anthony Sun is managing general partner and co-CEO of Venrock Associates, a venture capital fund associated with the Rockefeller Family office in New York. Venrock has offices in New York, Menlo Park and Cambridge. He invests primarily in the information technology industry with a focus on the communications and Internet infrastructure sectors.

Since joining Venrock in 1979, he has been instrumental as a lead investor or board member in over two dozen companies that have completed public offerings or successful mergers. His previous experience was with Hewlett-Packard, TRW and Caere Corporation. He currently sits on the boards of numerous companies in the Venrock portfolio.

Tony is currently a Commissioner and Trustee of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, where in the past he held positions of Vice Chairman and member of the executive committee. He is a past member of the board of the steering committee for the California Research Center of the Harvard Business School and a former board member of the National Venture Capital Association. Tony is also a member of the Corporation and Trustee of MIT, serving concurrently on the investment committee and visiting committees of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Material Science.

He is a key member of the Capital Campaign committee of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve of Stanford University and a member of the Stanford Associates. Since 1993, Tony has been a Venture Capital Guest Advisor to the Stanford Business School Entrepreneurial Course.

He is currently a member of the Naval Research Advisory Committee for the U.S. Navy, and a member of the International Resource Panel for the Government of Singapore.