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verma Devendra (Deven) Verma
Partner

Deven was the founding General Partner of Edgewood and Redwood Ventures. Combined they have invested into over 80 companies including Rightworks (SOLD to ICGE), SwitchON (SOLD to PMCS), Catarman (SOLD to IFX), Magma Design Automation (LAVA), iLeverage (SOLD to EPNY), and CoDesign (SOLD to SNPS). In addition, Deven has served on the Board Director or Advisor of Greater Bay Bank (NASDAQ : GBBK), Clearspeed ( LSE : CSD), Monet Communication. Deven has 25+ years of experience as a technologists, entrepreneur and investor. He is a seasoned operations executive in small and large corporations.

Currently, Deven is involved in high tech area including Super Computer, Semiconductor, Micro Processor and Genomic Research

Deven was Executive Vice President at Loral Corporation and has managed the largest commercial satellite project in the world.

singh Rajvir Singh
Partner

Raj was the founding partner at Redwood Venture Partners, Raj Singh had many years of experience as an engineer in high technology companies, starting with National Semiconductor in the early 1980s. After leaving National, he was among the first few employees at both Cirrus Logic and again at Nexgen. In 1992 he began a new career as an entrepreneur, starting a company to develop chip design software. Over the next few years, he started three more companies: Advanced Logic, Fiberlane Communications (later split into Cerent, Siara Systems, and Cyras Systems), and StratumOne. He is the co-author of Digital Design and Synthesis with Verilog HDL. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Roorkee Engineering College, India, and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.

Vishal Verma
Partner

Vishal is a Partner of Edgewood Ventures, LLC. Edgewood is a leading accelerator creating the next wave of technology companies. Edgewood assists start-up companies in business development, strategy, brand creation etc. Edgewood’s portfolio consists mainly of high quality sustainable companies such as Akroria, BayTech, B-Bop, DSL Communications (acquired by Lara/Cypress), Edgewood Real Estate India, Force10 Networks (will file for IPO over summer), HAL – Edgewood Pvt. Ltd., HSMC, iLeverage (acquired by EPNY), LiquidMarket (acquired by Xoom.com) and Rightworks (acquired by ICG).

Vishal currently sit on the board of Bay Area Technologies, Edgewood Real Estate India, HSMC, Hyde Park Angels and Legal Remedies.

Prior to Edgewood, Vishal was the Founder, President and COO of Akroria Networks, Inc. a well funded – VC backed optical switching company. Akroria is creating a novel approach on solving the bandwidth clutter in the telecommunication market.

Prior to Edgewood, Vishal worked at Loral Corporation reporting to the Vice President of Asia Pacific. Vishal was responsible for creating and managing relationships with Loral’s customers in the Pacific Rim region.

Vishal is a member of the The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), AAMA, SVASE, Chicago Private Equity Networks, Chicago CEO Roundtable, Executive Club of Chicago.

Vishal holds a B.S. degree in Finance and Marketing from Santa Clara University, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Mukesh Advani
Venture Partner & General Counsel

Mukesh Advani has been practicing law in California since 1985.

Prior to Edgewood Ventures, Mukesh was of counsel to The Schinner Law Group with offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Before that, Mukesh was a partner with a San Francisco based law firm of Kelly, Herlihy, Advani and Klein with offices in Northern and Southern California, a firm Mukesh co-founded in February 1998. From 1990 to 1998, Mukesh managed the successful growth of his own firm to eight attorneys with offices in Northern and Southern California. From 1985 to 1990, Mukesh was an associate with the law firm of Kornblum, Kelly, Herlihy.

In 1991, Mukesh received an A.V. rating (very high (legal ability) to preeminent) by Martindale-Hubbell, after he had been in practice for only a little over five years. In his practice, Mukesh has represented major institutional and individual clients in hundreds of civil litigation and corporate matters. Mukesh has also appeared as lead counsel in dozens of appellate matters, many of which are published Mukesh was also counsel for Dr. Allen Hassan in one his other landmark California Supreme Court cases, Hassan v. Mercy Hospital (2003) 31 Cal.4th 709.

Mukesh has published articles and taught continuing legal education classes. At the American Bar Association’s Annual convention in San Francisco in 1998, Mukesh was invited to be a panelist with Judge Kenneth Starr and Justice Kathryn Werdegar of California Supreme Court.

INDIA TEAM

goswami K.K.Goswami
Krishna Goswami has more than 25 years of Extensive Experience in Space Research & Satellite Technology. He also has vast knowledge & experience in Microelectronics, Packaging & Telecom.

After completing his M.TECH (ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING) in first class from B.I.T.S., PILANI in 1968, he headed the “Mission Simulations and Ground Station” project from 1975-1992 in ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization).

From 1992 he has been Division Head, of HMCD, (Hybrid Microelectronics Division) at ISAC. (ISRO Satellite Center) Bangalore, INDIA.

He was Responsible for operations and maintenance of C-band & S-Band Earth Stations at ISAC. The ground station operational support at ISAC was provided for all the ISRO satellite missions’ viz., ROHINI-1, BHASKARA-1&2, ROHINI-D1 & D2, APPLE, INSAT and IRS series satellites.

He is the Life Member of Astronautical Society Of India, Life Member of International Society For Hybrid Microelectronics, Fellowship of Institute of electronics and telecom. Engineers.

Ajit Dagur

CEO Edgewood Real Estate India

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