BLUE LAKE VENTURES - Key Persons


Rene Pharisien - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
Prior to founding Blue Lake, Rene was Vice President of North America Sales for a number of technology companies and spent over 30 years in hardware and software sales. He started his career in the minicomputer industry joining Prime Computer as a sales rep in Portland, Oregon, and through multiple promotions eventually ran the large Los Angeles branch. He left after 10 years to build the Los Angeles district for Sequent Computer Systems, the leader in high end parallel processing systems, a new generation of computers that were replacing mainframe technology with machines built on commodity processors and Unix-based operating systems. From there he moved into network communications to turn around the Southwest district for 3Com.