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[1] Kimberlie Cerrone is one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley.<Kimberlie Cerrone is an experienced Silicon Valley angel investor who has invested in over 80 startup companies. She is formerly the Managing Director of The Angels' Forum, a prominent Silicon Valley angel investing group. Kimberlie currently co-invests with several prominent individual angel investors, the members of The Angels' Forum and the Band of Angels, Camp Ventures, and other prominent angel and seed stage venture investors.
She is a seasoned finance and legal executive with over twenty-five years of finance, legal, top management, deal-making and international experience with venture-backed startup companies, including NeuroBiological Technologies, Yahoo!, Ariba, Target Therapeutics, Smart Therapeutics, Net Perceptions and Google.
She has led the finance and/or legal team at several venture-backed companies, raised over $230M in venture financing, led more than thirty M&A transactions and three public offerings, and negotiated and executed numerous partner, licensing, customer and vendor relationships for public and privately-held companies.
She is admitted to the California and U.S. Patent and Trademark Bars. Kimberlie is currently the EVP, Business Affairs and Strategy of Aboolla Inc., a SaaS solution that allows businesses to organize their important corporate documents, and share them with authorized parties in support of financings, acquisitions, audits, compliance reporting, loan applications, and other important company matters.>
Kimberlie Cerrone is an experienced Silicon Valley angel investor who has invested in over 80 startup companies. She is formerly the Managing Director of The Angels' Forum, a prominent Silicon Valley angel investing group. Kimberlie currently co-invests with several prominent individual angel investors, the members of The Angels' Forum and the Band of Angels, Camp Ventures, and other prominent angel and seed stage venture investors.
She is a seasoned finance and legal executive with over twenty-five years of finance, legal, top management, deal-making and international experience with venture-backed startup companies, including NeuroBiological Technologies, Yahoo!, Ariba, Target Therapeutics, Smart Therapeutics, Net Perceptions and Google.
She has led the finance and/or legal team at several venture-backed companies, raised over $230M in venture financing, led more than thirty M&A transactions and three public offerings, and negotiated and executed numerous partner, licensing, customer and vendor relationships for public and privately-held companies.
She is admitted to the California and U.S. Patent and Trademark Bars. Kimberlie is currently the EVP, Business Affairs and Strategy of Aboolla Inc., a SaaS solution that allows businesses to organize their important corporate documents, and share them with authorized parties in support of financings, acquisitions, audits, compliance reporting, loan applications, and other important company matters.
While being one of the leading women entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Cerrone is practices law at two of Silicon Valley's top law girms, Gunderson Dettmer and Venture Law Group. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs. [2]
Kimberlie L Cerrone, J.D., M.S., M.B.A is also an active member of her community and avid volunteer. She has helped her husband The Young Adult and Family Center at UCSF which recently recieved $5 million in donations from the Helen and Charles Schwab foundation. Cerrone is married to UCSF Doctor Kim P. Norman, who has been featured in every edition of Best Doctors of America and America's Top Doctors. Norman who has recieved numberous awards for teaching and for his volunteer work, including the the coveted Henry J. Kaiser award for teaching. Cerrone and her husband currently live in San Francisco, California and have raised four children together. [3]
Cerrone earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois in Biochemistry and an M.S. degree in Biochemical Pharmacology from New York University. She also earned an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco and was admitted to the National Beta Gamma Sigma Society. She graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Cerrone is the authored countless articles and book chapters on patenting and licensing strategies. <Kimberlie serves on several business advisory boards of both high tech and life science companies, and is a director or trustee of several for profit and nonprofit organizations. She is currently consulting to a few Fortune 500 companies as well as advising several venture-backed startup companies. She has authored several articles and book chapters on business strategies that maximize the strategic value of intellectual property and is frequently invited to speak around the world at business and venture capital conferences.> Block quote
Cerrone is also a judge for Cartier's Women Initiative Awards.[4]