Bruce Sachs joined Charles River in the fall of 1999 as a general partner, after twenty years of experience in the telecommunications, networking, Internet and computing industries. Sachs started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories and then as a director of engineering at Memotec/Infinet. He joined publicly held Xylogics as director of engineering in 1989 and ultimately became chief executive officer. Sachs led the company through a dramatic reformulation of strategy and repositioning, and in 1995 sold Xylogics to Bay Networks. Sachs went on to serve as an executive vice president of Bay Networks (now a unit of Nortel Networks), completing four acquisitions in his first year and enhancing the company's position in key emerging telecommunications markets. After leaving Bay Networks in 1997, Sachs joined publicly held Stratus Computer as president and CEO. At Stratus, Sachs led the repositioning of the company to focus on telecom software and services in addition to its traditional computing foundation. The Stratus Computer turnaround led to its acquisition by Ascend Communications in October 1998. Sachs was then tapped as executive vice president and general manager of Ascend's Carrier Signaling and Management Group, and stayed on briefly as a consultant at Lucent Technologies upon its acquisition of Ascend.

Sachs' current investments at CRV include Beaumaris Networks, CarrierIQ, Cedar Point Communications, GreatCall, iControl, M2Z Networks, Nantero, Parascale, Samplify, SpiderCloud and Vanu. In addition, Sachs managed CRV's investments in Acopia (sold to F5), BigBand (IPO 2007), Flarion Technologies (sold to Qualcomm in 2006), RiverDelta Networks (sold to Motorola in 2001) and Hammerhead Networks (sold to Cisco Systems in 2002). He also serves on the board of publicly held Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

Sachs holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University (1980), a Masters degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University (1981), and an MBA degree from Northeastern University (1988).

Bruce's wife Kimberlie was diagnosed with MS over 20 years ago.