 Steve Bourne, Chief Technology Officer
As Chief Technology Officer of El Dorado Ventures, Steve Bourne actively consults with EDV’s portfolio companies and advises the firm on new investment opportunities. He has been involved with El Dorado Ventures since becoming an EDV Technology Partner in 1998.
Steve is internationally known for his work on the UNIX operating system. While at Bell Laboratories, Steve designed the UNIX Command Language commonly called the "Bourne Shell" that is widely used as a scripting language in the UNIX programming environment. In 1983, Steve published "The UNIX System", one of the first widely used texts on the effective use of UNIX.
Steve has also served in senior management positions at Cisco Systems, where he was director of engineering for enterprise network management; Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the Solaris 2.0 release; Digital Equipment Corporation, where he developed the first RISC-based workstation for DEC; and Silicon Graphics, where he was one of the company's first employees and served as Director of Software responsible for their first product to market.
Steve has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from King's College London, a Diploma in Computer Science from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Trinity College in Cambridge, England.
Steve is also a past President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
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