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. He graduated from the Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science in Nashville, Tennessee in 1977. He received a master’s degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering in 1979.
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. Rothschild co-founded Veritas Software in 1988. He co-founded Mpath Interactive in 1995, which became a public company in 1999.
Rothschild is listed as co-inventor on several MPath patents. In 1999 he became an advisor and venture partner at the venture capital firm Accel Partners.
In 2003, Rothschild co-founded Mendocino Software, with fellow former-Veritas executives Peter Levine and Steve Colman. Mendocino shut down quietly by March 2008.
Rothschild started working for Facebook in 2005. He was the oldest person working for Facebook at the time. He became Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure software. In 2012, he owned 18 million Facebook shares.
| Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Los Altos, California, USA |
| Alma mater | Vanderbilt University |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Net worth | US$1.67 billion (July 2015) |
| Spouse(s) | Marieke Rothschild |
| Children | 3 |
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