Peter Currie

Peter L. S. Currie (born 1956) is an American business executive who was the chief financial officer for Netscape from 1995 to 1999. Currie has been described by Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Vascellaro as one of the "Silicon Valley wise men". He is an investor in Internet start-ups and serves on the boards of numerous firms.

Education and career Currie graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover in 1974 Netscape developed the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol or SSL for securing online communication which is still widely used as well as JavaScript. Currie became its chief financial officer in 1995 He was Chief Administrative Officer at Netscape from July 1997 until March 1999. Netscape was valued at $5 billion in November 1995. In 1999, Netscape was bought by America Online and became a holding company.

Other ventures In 1999, Currie and Barksdale and others formed a venture capital firm called Barksdale Group to invest in business start-ups, and raised at least $180 million according to one report. As an investor and consultant, he focused on the enterprise software sector of the business. Currie invested in an Internet start-up called Flipboard in 2010. Currie claims affiliations with Corsair Communications, Critical Path, Inkling, Listen.com, Kodak Imaging Network, Kontiki, IPVALUE Management, Oracle America, Tellme Networks, Zantaz, InfoSpace.com, Clearwire, CNET, Safeco, and Palamon Capital Partners. In 2016, Twitter released Currie from its board.

Currie's advice was sought by Facebook co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg in 2010.