Jeffrey J. Rothschild

Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild
Residence Los Altos, California, USA
Alma mater Vanderbilt University
Occupation Businessman
Net worth US$1.67 billion (July 2015)[1]
Spouse(s) Marieke Rothschild
Children 3

Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild is an American billionaire entrepreneur, business executive and philanthropist. A patent-holder, he is the co-founder of several companies. He is a founding engineer and large shareholder of Facebook.

Early life

Jeffrey Rothschild was born around 1955. He is not a member of the Rothschild family.[2] He graduated from the Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science in Nashville, Tennessee in 1977.[3][4] He received a master's degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering in 1979.[3]

Career

Rothschild worked as an engineer at Honeywell and Intel, and then for a consulting firm that worked on projects such as Locus Computing Corporation.[5] Rothschild co-founded Veritas Software in 1988.[2] He co-founded Mpath Interactive in 1995, which became a public company in 1999.[2]

Rothschild is listed as co-inventor on several MPath patents.[6][7] In 1999 he became an advisor and venture partner at the venture capital firm Accel Partners.[5]

In 2003, Rothschild co-founded Mendocino Software, with fellow former-Veritas executives Peter Levine and Steve Colman.[8][9] Mendocino shut down quietly by March 2008.[10][11]

Rothschild started working for Facebook in 2005.[2] He was the oldest person working for Facebook at the time.[2] He became Facebook's vice president of infrastructure software.[2] In 2012, he owned 18 million Facebook shares.[2]

Philanthropy

Rothschild serves on the board of trust of his alma mater, Vanderbilt University.[12] In December 2016, he donated $20 million to the university.[13][14]

Personal life

Rothschild married Texas and Arizona Attorney Michelle Scopellite in 1982 and they divorced in 1984. Rothschild has a wife, Marieke, who grew up in The Netherlands,[13] and three children.[1] He resides in Palo Alto, California.[12] He was worth an estimated US$1.67 billion in 2015.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Forbes 2015: #1324 Jeff Rothschild
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ryan Mac, Meet New Billionaire Jeff Rothschild, The Engineer Who Saved Facebook From Crashing, Forbes, February 28, 2014
  3. 1 2 Engineering alumnus elected to Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, May 1, 2014
  4. ↑ Jeffrey J. Rothschild, Bloomberg Business
  5. 1 2 "Jeff Rothschild". Team profile. Accel Partners. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ Daniel Joseph Samuel; Marc Peter Kwiatkowski; Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild (July 18, 1997). "Server-group messaging system for interactive applications". US Patent US6018766 A. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild; et al. (March 6, 1997). "Online gaming architecture". US Patent US 6152824 A. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities" (PDF). June 24, 2004. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Mendocino Software raises $15 million". San Francisco Business Times. March 30, 2004. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  10. ↑ Jerome M. Wendt (February 11, 2008). "“No Comment” from HP; No Callback From Mendocino Software". DCIG blog. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  11. ↑ Dave Raffo (February 11, 2008). "Mendocino Software, R.I.P.". Search Storage. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  12. 1 2 Vanderbilt University Board of Trust: Members
  13. 1 2 Underwood, Ryan (December 16, 2016). "Vanderbilt receives $20 million gift thanks to Facebook founding engineer and his wife". Vanderbilt News. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  14. ↑ Tamburin, Adam (December 29, 2016). "Former Facebook exec donates $20 million to Vanderbilt". The Tennessean. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
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