JR Ahn

An experienced corporate finance professional and senior business executive, JR Ahn holds a bachelor of science in business with a double concentration in corporate finance and entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California. Over the course of his career, he served in senior positions with a number of large firms, including Ernst & Young, Amazon.com, Symantec Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard Company. JR Ahn has served as an executive in residence with Sutter Hill Ventures since 2016.

From its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, Sutter Hill Ventures advises in a range of private companies and emerging start-ups. JR Ahn’s responsibilities with Sutter Hill include advising in the strategic development for some of the firm's diverse investment portfolio and working with the entrepreneurs in residence to establish new businesses. Mr. Ahn principally focuses on digital business models, such as platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and enterprise computing. He also helps develop businesses involved in various aspects of data transfer and storage, including machine learning and neural networks.