Roger McNamee

Roger McNamee

Roger McNamee is a founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners, as well as private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. According to the "New York Times", McNamee has been instrumental in arranging at least two $500,000 donations to the Wikimedia Foundation. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/technology/17wikipedia.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1 "Open-Source Trouble in Wiki World", New York Times, March 17, 2008] ] [ [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/18/jimmy_wales_and_roger_mcnamee/ "Why would someone toss $1.35m at Wikipedia?", The Register, March 18, 2008] ]

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* [http://www.usatoday.com/educate/college/careers/profile1-28-05.htm "Techie guy by day, rocker guy by night"] , USA Today

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