Mark Stevens earned his B.S. in electrical engineering and his B.A. in economics simultaneously at USC.  He went on to earn an M.S. in computer science, and joined Intel, then a mid-sized company about to capitalize on the PC boom.  He later earned an MBA at Harvard University.

In 1989, Stevens became a partner at Sequoia Capital and began to concentrate his talents on semiconductor, software, and systems-related investments.  Over the years, he became a rising star on Forbes magazine’s Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists, climbing as high as 10th place in the ranking.

Currently he is one of five voting partners at Sequoia Capital and jointly responsible for some of the high-tech industry’s most spectacular investments: Google, Yahoo!, NVIDIA, YouTube, and others.

Stevens is a member of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Board of Councilors and the USC Board of Trustees.