Andrew Thompson, Founding Partner
 Prior to co-founding Spring Ridge Ventures, Andrew Thompson was a partner with Savage Thompson Management. He started in venture capital as a member of Mayfield Fund’s Life Sciences Group in 1989. Before venture capital, Andy was an operations management consultant with Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Andy has founded or turned around numerous companies including Cell Genesys, CardioRhythm, FemRx, Kistler-Morse and Proteus Biomedical.
Andy focuses on working closely with entrepreneurs to develop a comprehensive strategy in order to stay ahead of the burn rate. He relishes rolling up his sleeves and digging into operational issues.
Andy has an M.A. in engineering from Cambridge University, where he was a United Kingdom National Engineering Scholar, an M.A. in education from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business |
