Successful enterprises are a unique combination of talent, vision, passion and commitment. The partners at Storm Ventures have decades of history of working together to provide this formula to industry leading organizations such as Cisco Systems, E-Tek Dynamics, JDS Uniphase, ROLM, Stratacom, Venture Law Group and Wilson Sonsini. Each partner brings a unique set of skills, experience, and network to form a powerful and seasoned team. Complemented by the added knowledge and industry reach of our broad set of limited partners, many of whom are industry executives, Storm delivers a unique and successful combination of market insight, operational experience, and a results oriented culture.

Josef Friedman
Principal
josef@stormventures.com

Prior to joining Storm Ventures in June 2002, Josef Friedman was the CEO of Expression, Inc. that he co-founded in August 1999. Expression's eCommerce collaborative platform enables enterprise software vendors to enhance their solutions with real-time collaboration among customers, suppliers and employees. Expression was acquired by SAP in February 2002.

Before co-founding Expression, Josef was at Apple Computers for sixteen years, where he assumed various engineering management positions, including Managing Director of Apple Far East Design Center, Singapore. Prior to leaving Apple, as the Director of Engineering in the Desktop division, he had product design responsibilities for Apple desktop CPUs and monitors, such as the iMac and G3. Josef earned an MSEE from San Diego State University, and an MBA from National University. He was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Selected investments: Anchor Bay Technlogies, TrueSpan, Nuelight, Auvitek, Kidaro, and Inovys.