About Roger McNamee
Author of THE NEW NORMAL:
Great Opportunities in a Time of Great Risk

Roger McNamee is a co-founder of Silver Lake Partners and a Managing Director. He has twenty-one years of experience as an investor in technology companies at T. Rowe Price Associates, Integral Capital Partners, and Silver Lake.

Founded in 1991, Integral pioneered the crossover investment strategy, which seeks maximum capital appreciation by making investments in expansion-stage private companies and growth-stage public companies in the technology and life science industries.

Prior to founding Integral, Roger managed the T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund and co-managed the T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, which was at that time the largest emerging growth fund in the U.S.

Roger is a frequent speaker at industry and investor conferences. He is also a panelist on Louis Rukeyser's Wall $treet and a frequent commentator on technology investing on ABC, CNN, and CNBC. In 2001, Roger was named to the "Ultimate Investment Club" by Money magazine for the third consecutive year.

Roger serves on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College and on the Board of Overseers of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

In his spare time, Roger plays guitar and sings lead vocals in the Flying Other Brothers Band (FOBs), a rock 'n' roll band that plays shows around the country. Visit them at www.flyingotherbrothers.com.