Shernaz Daver Email Address

Operating Partner and CMO

Khosla Ventures is a financial services company that provides venture assistance and strategic advice to entrepreneurs working on breakthrough technologies.

Shernaz is a leading marketing, business and communications consultant with over 20 years of experience building brands and consumer perception; advising executive management, and developing businesses to take companies to the next level in marketing and mindshare. Shernaz consults to public and private companies, start ups, venture capital and private individuals in the United States and overseas in the areas of consumer, commerce, cloud, mobile, enterprise computing, virtual reality and life sciences. A partial list of companies include Netflix, Google Ventures, Walmart, Udacity, Khan Academy, Zynga, Polyvore, Guardant Health, Motorola, Indiegogo, Baidu, Declara, PlayerScale (Yahoo), Red Hot Labs (Google), Opsware (HP), Samsung, Truveo (AOL), Savvis (CenturyLink), Nokia, Metaplace (Disney), and Six Apart (Say Media). She serves as an advisor to Zetatta and Baobab Studios. She is often quoted as a spokesperson; mentioned in books; and has been profiled in TIME magazine among others. Shernaz built and ran the marketing and investor relations groups for search pioneer, Inktomi, which she oversaw for five years. Under her leadership, Inktomi became one of the hottest Internet names reaching over $37 billion in valuation. As part of the executive management team, she was instrumental in the company's IPO; follow-on offerings; and quarterly calls. At Sun, she established a brand name for Solaris, the Sun operating system, worldwide. She spearheaded Sun’s European software initiatives from Paris. At 3DO, she ran investor relations and communications for the video game company. Specialties: Branding, crisis management, marketing, investors relations, corporate communications, team build outs, international