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The world’s first impact investment fund focused on expanding internet access in frontier markets.

Advising technology companies with a particular focus on transforming technology specifications into market propositions to attract customers and investors. Selected areas of focus include mobile networking, blockchain, hybrid cloud tools, and open source projects.

Premier California artisanal craft distillery. Brands include Blade and Rusty Blade gin, Goldrun rye whiskey, and St. Blaise vodka. Custom distilling projects for select partners.

Venture-backed private company developing products for 5G, the next generation in wireless communications. Based in Silicon Valley, founded by a team from the UC Berkeley Wireless Research Center. Novel phased-array radio technology with unprecedented capacity and breakthrough economics for the new 5G millimeter-wave frequency bands, providing robust high-speed connections for users and an attractive business foundation for service providers.Acquired by Skyworks.

Observability and analytics for modern cloud applications, used by DevOps and SREs to improve the reliability and performance of API and microservices-driven production applications.Acquired by Nutanix.

Creator of the all-flash array, enterprise-grade primary storage solutions combining flash and data management services for maximum data availability, reliability, and performance. Initial public offering on New York Stock Exchange in September 2013. NYSE: VMEMRestructured and sold to Quantum Partners LP (Soros Fund Management LLC).

Secure and scalable software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), connecting applications, microservices, and workloads across hypervisors, containers, and bare metal. Bookings increased to multiple millions per year. Customers and partners included Swisscom, Interactive Intelligence (Genesys), American Express, CVS, GoDaddy, NTT, and Rackspace.Introduced eBPF for programmable I/O to the Linux kernel, attracting participation from AT&T, Broadcom, Canonical, Cavium, Cisco, Facebook, Huawei, Intel, Netflix, and VMware.Over $11 million raised in Series C and bridge rounds from new and existing investors, including US Venture Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Longworth Venture Partners, plus strategic and private investors.Acquired by VMware.

Early stage wireless infrastructure company providing enterprise LTE networks via cloud-based radio access networks. Team from the wireless systems and data-center networking worlds.

A leader in cloud-based email marketing solutions, working each day with marketers in retail, telecommunications, financial services, media and high technology, helping them achieve superior results with higher ROI on their digital marketing programs.

One-click backup, recovery, and continuity solutions for the mid-market, protecting thousands of servers for hundreds of customers around the world. Business model transformed from appliance-only to hybrid cloud and software-as-a-service. Payback period of customer acquisition costs reduced to 14 months and falling, with under 1% churn and strong customer advocacy. Partner sales grew to over half of revenue. From near-zero bookings increased to almost $10 million run rate. Company coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Over $20 million raised in Series B and C rounds from new and existing investors.

Wide-area network (WAN) optimization solutions focused on accelerating big data traffic traversing inter-data center networks.Assets acquired by Riverbed.

Market leader in service provider wireless LAN.Acquired by Ericsson.

Revenue and profit responsibility for Cisco mobile internet products, leading several hundred engineers, product managers, and business development professionals. Provided the mobile packet core for AT&T that connected the first Apple iPhones on June 29, 2007. Also provided massive text message network for American Idol voting. The Cisco Mobile Exchange framework for data services grew to more than 1,400 systems installed for nearly 100 operator networks. Customers included AT&T, Sprint, Rogers, France Telecom/Orange, T-Mobile, Turkcell, KDDI, and China Telecom. Partners included Alcatel, Lucent, Motorola, and Siemens.Simultaneously turned around service provider voice-over-IP business, distilling profits out of losses running more than a hundred million dollars per year, while greatly improving quality.Mobile internet business grew from near-zero to almost $300 million annual bookings, with growth rates and gross margins well above Cisco average.

Solutions marketing, coop joint marketing, digital marketing, marketing communications, press and analyst relations, and business development. Offerings for carriers and service providers, including broadband internet access, IP+optical integration, content hosting, virtual private networks, voice over IP, and bandwidth trading. Created the “New World” campaign emphasizing Cisco packet strengths versus circuit competitors. Produced ground-breaking industry events, including the NetAid benefit concert, which set world record for simultaneous streams, and the Titan AE premiere, first ever debut of a Hollywood movie over the internet.Service provider revenues grew five-fold, to more than $2.5 billion per quarter.

Introduced IP switching, a precursor to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Software Defined Networks (SDN). Unix/Intel routing platforms, foundation for Nokia mobile gateway and Check Point firewall appliance. Product management, marketing, and strategy.Acquired by Nokia.

CiscoFusion architecture for the Catalyst Ethernet switch, which grew to over sixty percent market share. High-end router product line, including Cisco 7500, which generated more than $3 billion in revenue and recognized among the “most important networking product(s) of the decade” (Network Computing). ATM switch and router interface development and acquisition, generating more than $250 million in revenue.Started as second-ever product marketing engineer for the entire Cisco product line. Demonstrations, tests and benchmarking, competitive analysis, and field training.

Switched Multi-megabit Data Service (SMDS), Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Intelligent Network services, videotex, encryption key management, and 900/976 numbers.