Jeffrey J. Rothschild

Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild (born February 28, 1954) is an American billionaire businessman who co-founded several companies. He is the founding engineer and a large shareholder of Facebook.

Early life Rothschild is the son of Beverley and William B. Rothschild. His father was president of M. Rothschild & Company, an importer of commodities from South East Asia founded by his grandfather, Marcus Rothschild. He is of Jewish descent. He is not a member of the Rothschild banking family.

Career Rothschild worked as an engineer at Honeywell and Intel, and then for a consulting firm that worked on projects such as Locus Computing Corporation. In 1999 he became an advisor and venture partner at the venture capital firm Accel Partners.

In 2003, Rothschild co-founded Mendocino Software, with fellow former-Veritas executives Peter Levine and Steve Colman. Mendocino shut down quietly by March 2008.

Rothschild started working for Facebook in 2005. With his wife, he endowed two scholarships in the School of Engineering and the College of Arts and Science in 2013, and he donated $20 million for the construction of two new buildings on campus, Vanderbilt Hall and Barnard Hall, in December 2016.

Personal life Rothschild and his wife Marieke have three children, and live in Palo Alto, California.