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Lisa Lambert manages the Software and Solutions Group of Intel Capital. Lisa and her staff of 5 Investment Managers are responsible for software equity and M&A investments in support of Intel’s platform and solution strategies with oversight responsibility for more than 50 portfolio companies worldwide. Her specific software focus areas include applications, middleware, services, open source/Linux, RFID, sensors, data warehouses, business internet, vertical markets, & various other software categories. Lisa's group completed twenty-eight new and follow-on equity investments in 2001-2002 and fourteen investments in 2003-2004, and fourteen investments in 2005. Lisa personally completed new investments and follow-ons in application and infrastructure companies such as: The JBoss Group, Datallegro, Financial Engines, and Gigaspaces. Lisa's team completed investments in: Spikesource, Zend Technologies, Arched Rock, Black Duck, CollabNet, among others. Lisa is Board Observer for CollabNet and Datallegro. Lisa managed the $253 million Intel 64 Investment Fund. The original Fund participants included HP, Compaq, SGI, Dell, NEC, and Morgan Stanley who represented 14 Fortune 500 end-users.
Lisa joined Intel in 1997 as a Product Marketing Engineer in the Desktop Products Group (DPG), and subsequently held a Product Marketing Management position in DPG with responsibility to perform traditional Intel component product marketing functions for the Pentium II, III processor family. Lisa managed enterprise desktop marketing programs with responsibility for creating product presentations for internal and field personnel, product positioning and roadmaps, PC OEM and analyst engagement, launch activities, and other product management functions before joining Intel Capital in 1999.
Prior to joining Intel, Lisa worked as a software programmer from 1989-1992 and in various strategic planning and product marketing positions from 1992-1995 at Owen-Corning. She was selected by the Harvard Business School Professor of Managing International Trade and Investment to be one of six students (from ~200 students) to conduct a study and develop a report on Intel’s strategy to invest in Costa Rica in 1996. She received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1997 and a BS in Management Information Systems from the Pennsylvania State University in 1989
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