Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization Sutter Hill Ventures
Gender Male Also Known As Jim Gaither
Investor Type
James C. Gaither has been a managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture capital investment firm, since 2000.
He was a partner in the law firm Cooley LLP from 1971 to 2000 and senior counsel to the firm from 2000 to 2003.
Prior to practicing law he served as a law clerk to The Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice and staff assistant to U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
Mr. Gaither is a former president of the Board of Trustees at Stanford University, former vice chairman of the board of directors of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and immediate past chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Mr. Gaither holds a BA degree in Economics from Princeton University and a JD degree from Stanford University Law School. He joined the NVIDIA board in 1998.
