Joe Marengi joined Austin Ventures in 2007 as a venture partner focusing on the hardware and software industries. Prior to joining Austin Ventures, Joe was with Dell, Inc for 10 years where he was an SVP and general manager of Dell Americas (Nasdaq: DELL) responsible for all of Dell’s operations in the America’s region, including sales, marketing, manufacturing and service. His focus was on the corporate and public institution customer base.

Joe came to Dell from Novell Inc (Nasdaq: NOVL), where he was President and COO. As President he was responsible for strategy and day-to-day operations of the company. He joined Novell in 1989 moving through several successive promotions to become the Executive VP of Sales and Worldwide field operations for the five years preceding his taking the President’s role. As EVP he was responsible for setting up the major account licensing, channel and consulting programs, and overseeing the company’s International expansion.

Prior to Novell, his background includes ten years in executive sales, information technology, and production automation positions.

Joe currently serves on the Board of Directors for Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE: HOV), a Fortune 500 Homebuilder and Quantum Corp (NYSE: QTM), a technology company specializing in storage back-up, recovery, and archiving.

Joe received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California.

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