Sameer Gandhi of Sequoia Capital has joined Accel Partners as partner in their Palo Alto office.

At Accel, Sameer will help develop companies in the consumer Internet and software segments.

At Sequoia Capital, Sameer had been a partner leading several investments including Barracuda Networks, eHarmony, Gracenote (acquired by Sony), Marketlive and Sourcefire (FIRE) among others during his decade-long stint at the firm.

Sameer previously worked as a technology banker at Broadview and a sales engineer at Oracle.

Sameer holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BSEE and MSEE from MIT.