Arif is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He joined the firm in 2008 and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of cloud and datacenter technologies, as well as enterprise mobile and SaaS solutions. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Arif worked in the Corporate Business Development group at Cisco Systems and Novitas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Earlier in his career, Arif worked in technical development and product management roles at WebTV, Andes Networks, and Sun Microsystems. Arif holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
