Habib Kairouz is a managing partner of Rho Capital Partners, Inc., a private equity firm offering long-term investments to IT, new media, healthcare and energy tech companies. Habib serves as a general partner to both Rho Ventures, the direct venture capital arm of Rho, and to Rho Acceleration, which focuses on buyouts in the software and digital media sectors. He currently serves on the boards of Rocketrip, Dashlane, and Convercent. Habib earned undergraduate degrees in Engineering and Economics from Cornell University and received a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Columbia University. His first hourly job was as a ski instructor.