With a singular focus on #bigdata and #AI, for more than 30 years I have been working in Silicon Valley as a #VC, #entrepreneur, #corporateexecutive, and #technologist. Today I invest in early-stage startups working on enterprise applications that combine #bigdata with #AI and advise global #automotive, #travel, #logistics, #telco, and #financialservices corporations on #AI, #newmobility, #softwaredefinedvehicle, and startup-driven #innovation. I am the author of the books The Big Data Opportunity in Our Driverless Future (https://goo.gl/fyd0b6), Transportation Transformation (https://amzn.to/2Unu2AM), and The Flagship Experience (https://bit.ly/3v7UnYG). I write about AI/big data, new mobility, and corporate innovation. My investing career started in 2000 as a Partner at Apax Partners. I continued as a senior managing director at Trident Capital, and more recently at Synapse Partners, a firm I founded. I served as the board chairman of Amobee (a @Singtel company). Prior directorships include Brightroll (acquired by Yahoo!), Bristol Technology (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Composite Software (acquired by Cisco), Confluent Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation), Exelate (acquired by Nielsen), and Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM). In 2014 I was named a Power Player in Digital Media, and in 2012 as a top investor in online advertising.Before my investing and corporate advisory career, I had a 20-year career in high-technology executive roles, including two startup CEO positions. I’m a member of the following advisory boards:CaltechConnected Cities for Smart Mobility Securing America's Future EnergyCenter for Urban Science and Progress I hold a Ph.D. in computer science from Brandeis University in #machinelearning and large #databases, and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.
