8VC Leadership

Isabela Becerra is an Undergraduate at Stanford University and Chief of Staff at 8VC. She has experience at Graystone Consulting. Isabela attended Stanford University.

Bhaskar Ghosh (“BG”) is the CTO at 8VC, having initially joined the company as an Advisor in December 2015. Since receiving his PhD in Computer Science from Yale, BG has had a distinguished career in Silicon Valley, working for 20+ years in technology leadership in diverse domains including enterprise data and web infrastructure, digital advertising, social networks, and consumer fintech. Previously, he ran technology at Nerdwallet as VP of Engineering, helped build the teams and back-ends that helped fuel LinkedIn’s meteoric growth as its Head of Data Engineering, and led engineering for the pioneering Yahoo! Right Media Display Advertising Exchange. BG built his deep technology and data chops developing RDMBS kernels at top enterprise data-platform companies like Oracle and Informix. At 8VC, BG is excited to work with the entrepreneurs and leaders in our portfolio as a virtual CTO, and in finding the next big investment idea across technology domains.

Stephen is the Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for leading the firm’s Finance & Operations team. Prior to joining 8VC, Stephen served as a Senior Director at global investment firm, TPG Inc. (NASDAQ: TPG) with responsibility for finance, accounting and financial reporting of the firm’s private equity, public-company REIT, and SPAC businesses. He previously served as a Finance Director for Tradeweb Markets Inc. (NASDAQ: TW), a leading builder and operator of electronic fixed income, derivative, and ETF marketplaces.

He received his MBA from Texas Christian University. Stephen is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He serves as a board member of the Children’s Medical Research Foundation (CMRF Inc.).