Biography
Roger McNamee is an American venture capitalist and investor who has appeared as himself in documentaries. He is credited as Self - Early Facebook Investor in The Great Hack (2019) and as Self - Facebook, Early Investor - Venture Capitalist in The Social Dilemma (2020).
McNamee co-founded the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. He was an early investor in Facebook and served as a mentor to its founder Mark Zuckerberg. He is the author of the book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe (2019).
McNamee was born on 2 May 1956 in Albany, New York.
