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David Benham Benham

Climate Cleantech Enthusiast | Non-profit Founder | Terra.do Fellow | MBA | Engineer | ex-Cisco Product & CTO leader

San Luis Obispo, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Executive Director

    2024

  • Ambassador & Mentor

    2022

    I volunteer as an ambassador and mentor for the non-profit Cleantech Open, one of the oldest and largest cleantech accelerators (~100 startups/year since 2005).

2020

  • Member

    2020

    Due diligence of startups focused on Carbon/GHG Accounting, MRV, Renewables, electrified transportation+charging for potential early-stage investments.

  • Limited Partner

    2020

2018 - 2020

  • Chief Officer

    2018 - 2020

1995 - 2018

  • Director, Video Collaboration CTO

    2009 - 2018

    My team led Cisco's strategy for video, audio and media resiliency for the collaboration business -- from Webex to telepresence -- as well as established industry standards for video codecs, webrtc and conferencing privacy and other related technologies from the Chief Technology Office.

  • Director, Video IPTV Solution Architecture

    1995 - 2009

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2018

    The Alliance for Open Media unites top tech leaders and adopters in a collaborative effort to define, standardize and offer an open, royalty-free and interoperable solutions for the next generation of video media delivery.

  • Board Member

    2014 - 2018

    I led the transfer of Cisco's Telepresence Interoperability Protocol to IMTC to facilitate the distribution of TIP Protocol licenses as well as to host interoperability events and to develop future enhancements to the protocol.

  • Vice President Board Of Directors

    2000 - 2004

    An industry non-profit [501(c)(6)] organization that I founded to define interoperable streaming over the Internet media solution.