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Sheryl Sandberg is a co-founder and Partner at Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners (SBVP). She is also the founder of Lean In, a nonprofit focused on empowering women, and the founder and chair of the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation.

She previously served as chief operating officer of Facebook/Meta for fourteen years, during which the company grew from $150 million to over $110 billion in annual revenue. Before Facebook, she was vice president of global online sales and operations at Google and chief of staff to the Secretary of the Treasury at the U.S. Treasury Department, with earlier roles at McKinsey & Company and the World Bank. She is the author of two bestselling books, Lean In and Option B. She serves on the boards of Nscale, Bay Football Club, and Terradot.

Sheryl is the best-selling author of three books: Lean In, Lean In for Graduates, and Option B, co-authored with Wharton professor Adam Grant. She received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School, and lives in Menlo Park, California, with her husband and their five children.

Tom Bernthal is a co-founder and Partner at Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners (SBVP).

He co-founded Kelton Global, an insights and strategy consultancy whose clients included Google, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Visa and more than 100 of the Fortune 500, and served as its CEO through the company's 2018 acquisition by LRW Group (now Material). Before Kelton, Tom was a three-time Emmy Award-winning producer at NBC News, and he began his career in the White House Communications Office during the Clinton administration.

He is a board observer at Terradot and Bay Football Club.

Tom graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lives in Menlo Park, California, with his wife and their five children.

Gareth Schweitzer is a Partner at Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, an early-stage venture fund applying operational expertise to help consumer, enterprise, climate, and healthcare technology companies grow and thrive. Previously, he was the co-founder and President of Kelton Global, a marketing services company he led to a successful acquisition by LRW Group (now Material) in 2018. At Material, he served as President and then Vice Chairman of the company, which grew to $350 million in revenue during his tenure.

Gareth began his career as a radio and TV journalist covering the White House and Capitol Hill. He was the youngest member of the White House Correspondents Association and part of the President's press pool, making frequent appearances on CNN and Fox News as well as radio stations around the country. In the spring of 2003, he was an embedded correspondent with a combat engineering unit in Iraq at the outset of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Gareth serves on the boards of Lean In and A Place Called Home, a South-Central Los Angeles institution dedicated to preparing young people for economically and socially successful adulthood through academic programs, counseling, vocational training, and college scholarships. He also serves on the boards of Cercle and Self Inspection, SBVP portfolio companies, and provides mentorship and guidance to founders across the portfolio.

He graduated with a BA in political science and communications from McGill University in Montreal, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

Inbar Kodesh is Chief of Staff to Sheryl Sandberg and supports SBVP's portfolio and investment process.

Before joining, she was an investor at Activant Capital, a growth equity firm, where she partnered with founders and supported portfolio companies. She began her career as an investor at Insight Partners, spending time in the firm's New York and Tel Aviv offices and focusing on sourcing and executing investments in early and growth-stage SaaS businesses.

Inbar grew up in the suburbs of Seattle and graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. She lives in San Francisco.