Jeffrey J. Rothschild

Rothschild is the son of Beverley and William B. Rothschild.[1] His father was president of M. Rothschild & Company, an importer of commodities from South East Asia founded by his grandfather, Marcus Rothschild.[1] He received bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1977 and 1979, respectively.[2][3] He is of Jewish descent.[4]

Rothschild worked as an engineer at Honeywell and Intel, and then for a consulting firm that worked on projects such as Locus Computing Corporation.[5] Rothschild co-founded Veritas Software in 1988.[6] He co-founded Mpath Interactive in 1995, which became a public company in 1999.[6]

Rothschild is listed as co-inventor on several MPath patents.[7][8] In 1999 he became an advisor and venture partner at the venture capital firm Accel Partners.[5]

In 2003, Rothschild co-founded Mendocino Software, with fellow former-Veritas executives Peter Levine and Steve Colman.[9][10] Mendocino shut down quietly by March 2008.[11][12]

Rothschild started working for Facebook in 2005.[6] He was the oldest person working for Facebook at the time.[6] He became Facebook's vice president of infrastructure software.[6] In 2012, he owned 18 million Facebook shares.[6]

Rothschild serves as the vice chair of the board of trustees of his alma mater, Vanderbilt University.[13][14] With his wife, he endowed two scholarships in the School of Engineering and the College of Arts and Science in 2013, and he donated $20 million for the construction of two new buildings on campus, Vanderbilt Hall and Barnard Hall, in December 2016.[15]

Rothschild and his wife Marieke have three children, and live in Palo Alto, California.[6] According to Forbes, Rothschild is worth about $2.9 billion as of May 2022.[16]