Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Angel

Martina Lauchengco advises companies on how to use marketing and products to meet their goals. Her multi-disciplinary approach pulls from over 20 years of experience in executive positions in product marketing and product management, corporate marketing, and as a chief-of-staff to the CEO at companies including Microsoft, Netscape, AOL and Loudcloud/Opsware.

Martina has helped contribute to several iconic industry products, but she is best known for her leadership marketing Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, and later Netscape's browser, some of the most successful software products of all time.

She began her career as a Product Manager for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office back when no one had heard of the latter, and Word only had 50% market share. She left to join Netscape in its early days, doing first product marketing for the Netscape browser, then leading the product management teams defining Netscape’s client apps, and eventually, leading product marketing for the entire server line. Her final role at Netscape was heading up its consumer channels for the Netcenter portal. Martina then followed several executives, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, to Loudcloud/Opsware (acquired by HP) where she led the marketing team prior to becoming the CEO's Chief of Staff.

As a partner with SVPG, Martina has provided strategic advice to a diverse range of B2C and B2B companies ranging from the Fortune 500 to start-ups. She is also an Operating Partner at Costanoa Venture Capital, on Advisor Boards of early-stage startups, and a Marketing Lecturer for the UC Berkeley Engineering Leadership Masters Program.

Martina earned her B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University.