Marcelo Manjon is the Vice President of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs (SA&E), an alumni association that seeks to strengthen Stanford’s startup community, where he co-leads the investment committee and is responsible for B2B startups. He is also the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of TrustedPassage, a next-generation secure connectivity solution, where he heads up product management and product marketing.

Most recently, he was an investor at XSeed Capital, an early stage venture capital fund. He had invested and served as a board observer in several enterprise software startups including CirroSecure (now Palo Alto Networks), Neon Labs and Zipline. Prior to joining XSeed, Marcelo was the co-founder of Optimize, a software quality startup, where he helped grow the company from its conception through its acquisition.

Marcelo holds a BS in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo and an MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business