James Pipe

Director of Finance & Operations

Mr. Pipe has been a finance and operations professional at alternative asset management firms throughout his career, and currently serves as InterPrivate’s Director of Finance and Operations. From 2018 to 2020, Mr. Pipe served as a member of the finance team at Google Ventures, the venture capital arm of Alphabet Inc., where his responsibilities included acting as the primary liaison between Google Ventures and the Alphabet corporate accounting team and managing the firm’s relationships with external service providers. From 2014 to 2018, Mr. Pipe was the Controller at Sherpa Capital, a San Francisco based venture capital firm. Mr. Pipe was a member of the founding team and oversaw the finance, operations, legal, human resources, and information technology functions of the firm, scaling the back office to support approximately $700 million in assets under management. From 2011 to 2014, Mr. Pipe worked in a finance and operations role at Landmark Advisors. Mr. Pipe received a B.A. in Economics from New York University, where he studied on a National Merit Scholarship.