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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Pegah
Investments
Work Experience
2022
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
2022
FPV Ventures is a new $450M Fund that backs and serves mission-driven founders. FPV is an investor in Canva, Flexport, Guild Education, Xilis, and Manifold Bio. Most of our investors/LPs are mission-driven endowments for charities, foundations, and universities doing great things for the world. I co-founded the fund with Wesley Chan in February 2022.
2021
Advisor
2021
Advisory to CEO and CFO for this category defining developer first company.
2020
Advisor & Investor
2020
GTM advisor for this category defining company
2021
Board Of Directors, Independent Director
2021
Enovix (ENVX) is publicly traded company on Nasdaq exchange. It is a leader in advanced silicon-anode lithium-ion battery development and production. Our proprietary 3D cell architecture increases energy density and maintains high cycle life. Our initial goal is to provide designers of category-leading mobile devices with a high-energy battery so they can continue creating innovative products, and subsequently developing our 3D cell technology and production process for the electric vehicle and energy storage markets to help enable widespread utilization of renewable energy.
2021
Board Of Directors, Lead Independent Director
2021
Applyboard is an artificial intelligence recruitment platform that helps international students apply for post-secondary studies abroad. Applyboard empowers students from around to get access to the best education in US, Canada, UK and Australia. Applyboard was named Canada's fastest-growing tech company in 2019 and is currently valued at more than $3 billion.
Advisor
2020
Advisor to some amazing SaaS, Security, Communication and AI/ML companies, including Snyk, Guild Education, Canva, ApplyBoard, PsiQuantum. Work with some exceptional companies on GTM and company strategy.
2019 - 2021
Board and Advisor
2019 - 2021
Gainsight is the #1 Customer Success platform. In December 2020, Gainsight announced a majority acquisition from Vista Equity Partners for $1.1 Billion
2019 - 2020
COO of Cisco Collaboration
2019 - 2020
2003 - 2019
COO of Global Technology Banking
2013 - 2019
CIO of Global Investment Bank
2009 - 2013
Chief Information Officer managing the global technology strategy for the Investment Banking Division and leading Digital Transformation for the Global Banking. Responsible for creating new proprietary products for Morgan Stanley's Global Bank and working with enterprise software companies on integrating their products to redesign a mobile-first technology strategy. Oversaw 4 successful critical technology deployments for the global bank with minimal disruption.
Vice President Investment Banking
2008 - 2009
Corporate finance, IPO and M&A
Venture Capital
2006 - 2008
Focused on Information Technology and Healthcare Technology
Corporate Finance and M&A Analyst
2003 - 2006
Corporate Finance and M&A Advisory (Healthcare and technology)
2015 - 2018
Advisory Board Member (Acquired by Cisco)
2015 - 2018