Ben Fried recently joined the Rally Ventures team as a Venture Partner. Ben has worked with Rally Ventures for over a decade as an advisor and investor, and he will now take on a full-time role with the firm.
In his capacity as Venture Partner, Ben will expand Rally’s expertise in engineering leadership, cybersecurity, managing hypergrowth and building enterprise software. His responsibilities will include identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, contributing to the firm’s overall strategic roadmap and advising portfolio companies on how to harness the power of emerging technologies, like Generative AI, to achieve superior results in product development and GTM.
Ben spent the previous 14 years as the CIO of Google, where he oversaw the creation and deployment of technologies and systems that power Google’s enterprise. And, he spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley, where he was the architect of the firm’s technology platform, and led teams responsible for software development infrastructure and business intelligence.
Ben is a world-class technologist and executive. Please join us in welcoming him full time to the Rally team!