
Partner at InterWest Partners
San Francisco Bay Area

Partner at InterWest Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2000 — Present (8 years)
Source investment opportunities, conduct due diligence, execute early stage venture transactions, and manage portfolio company relationships. Investment areas include alternative energy, semiconductors, capital equipment, wireless and enterprise infrastructure hardware. Led the following investments:
• InVisage (Board Member) -- Stealth mode startup company.
• SpectraLinear (Board Member) -- Mixed signal silicon timing company. Led Series A with Norwest.
• AMEC (Board Observer) -- Semiconductor capital equipment company operating in China.
• T-RAM (Board Member) -- Volatile memory semiconductor company based on thyrister technology from Stanford University.
• Pivot3 (Board Member) -- Distributed RAID storage infrastructure company.
• AccelChip (Board Member) -- EDA software enabling MATLAB code to compile directly into FPGA’s. Led Series B with Greylock. Company was acquired by Xilinx.