Welcoming Adrianna Ma, Our New Chief Operating Officer | Index Ventures
Talks about Index Ventures, Adrianna Ma and Chief Operating Officer
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Adrianna Ma
Operating Partner at Index Ventures
United Kingdom
Overview
Adrianna Ma is currently an Operating Partner at Index Ventures, with a background in private equity, corporate development, and capital allocation. She has held key leadership roles at Fremont Group and General Atlantic, bringing expertise in growth strategies and asset management to her current position.
With a strong educational background from MIT and Harvard Business School, Adrianna Ma has successfully navigated through roles at Morgan Stanley and HP before making significant contributions as Managing Director at General Atlantic and Managing Partner at Fremont Group.
Work Experience
Operating Partner
2021 - Current
Building and operating Index Ventures, a venture capital firm with investment offices in London, New York, and San Francisco.
Chief Operating Officer
2020 - 2021
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Board Member
2015 - 2023
Member of the Board of Directors. Member of Audit, Strategy and Investment, and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committees.
Applied Materials is a semiconductor and display equipment company that offers materials engineering solutions.
Raised $101,528,814.00 from Stonnington Group.
Managing Partner
2015 - 2019
Oversaw investments in BF Global, an endowment-style portfolio of primarily third-party managed funds, including investment strategy, asset allocation, manager selection, co-investments and risk management, for a single family office. Chaired BF Global's Investment Advisory Committee and also participated in direct investment activities of Fremont Realty Capital and Fremont Private Holdings.
Fremont Group is a San Francisco-based private investment firm.
Managing Director
2005 - 2015
Joined as Vice President. Led minority and control investments and supported portfolio companies. Led Energy & Resources and Business Services sectors globally. Conducted negotiations, performed due diligence, raised financing, negotiated and closed acquisitions within the portfolio and served on Board of Directors, Strategy, Audit, Compliance, Risk, Compensation and Nominating Committees of public and private companies.
General Atlantic is a private equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies.
Vice President - M&A
2000 - 2005
Joined as Associate. Closed 16 M&A transactions. Conducted valuation analyses and negotiations, performed due diligence, conducted sell-side auctions and rendered fairness opinions for public, private, buy-side, sell-side and cross-borders mergers and acquisitions of technology and industrial companies. Analyzed strategic positioning and capital allocation alternatives for companies in the technology industry.
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.
Project Manager - Network Server Division
1996 - 1998
Joined as Systems Engineer. Launched three enterprise server products (>$500 million revenue). Recruited and managed an engineering team across multiple locations as well as key technology partners (including Intel, Microsoft and Oracle) to benchmark operating system and application performance for enterprise network servers.
HP Labs creates, identifies, and develops technologies to connect people and define their future.
Research Associate
1993 - 1996
MIT VI-A Program intern. Analyzed and developed improvements to radar systems using signal processing algorithms. Designed experiments, collected data and compared actual results against simulations.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems.
Raised $250,000.00 from Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.