Ping Li joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on information technology infrastructure and digital media platforms. His areas of interest also include datacenter virtualization, cloud computing, distributed data management and Internet datacenter scalability. He currently is an investor/board member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Mochi Media, Mu Dynamics, Raptr, Verivue and YuMe, and he is actively involved in Imperva. Ping was also responsible for Accel’s investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco).
Prior to Accel, Ping was a senior product line manager and director of corporate development at Juniper Networks. He managed Juniper’s flagship M-series router product portfolio. In addition, Ping worked on Juniper’s acquisition of NetScreen Technologies (a $3.5 billion transaction) and led all subsequent security and routing product and R&D integration activities. He also worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies.
Ping holds an A.B. from Harvard University, with honors, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.