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Telecommunications Sector

Bry, Barbara

Barbara Bry is a serial entrepreneur who is currently the chief operating officer for Blackbird Ventures that invests in and incubates early stage technology companies. In addition, she and her husband Neil Senturia teach entrepreneurship at UC San Diego a... Learn more »

Dennis, Martha

Dr. Martha G. Dennis was a Venture Partner at Windward Ventures and Windward Ventures 2000. Prior to joining Windward Ventures in 2001, Dr. Dennis served as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Founder of WaveWare Communications. During her 35-ye... Learn more »

Larson, Lawrence

Dr. Lawrence E. Larson received the BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, and a PhD from UCLA. 
From 1980 to 1996 he was at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, CA, where he directed the development of high-frequency microe... Learn more »

Milstein, Laurence

Larry Milstein joined the UCSD faculty in 1976, and is a former chairman of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. He earned his Ph.D. in 1968 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. From 1968-1974, Milstein worked on satellite com... Learn more »

Moore, Rory

Rory Moore was the seed round investor, co-founder of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: PSMI), one of the world’s leading providers of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for the wireless communications and aerospace markets. Peregrine ... Learn more »

Muto, Frederick

Frederick T. Muto is a founding partner of the firm's San Diego office, which opened in 1992. He has been with firm since 1980. The firm's San Diego office was recently named the #1 firm in San Diego as ranked by area corporate board members, according to... Learn more »

Palmer, Douglas

Dr. Palmer specializes in unconventional signal processing. He holds over a dozen U.S. patents and has founded or participated in the startup of many companies. He spent 8 years at the Stanford Linear Accelerator and then went on at Linkabit Corp, Western... Learn more »

Partovi, Naser

Naser Partovi serves as a Managing Director and Partner of Enterprise Partners VI, L.P. Mr. Partovi served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Sky Mobilemedia, Inc. He served as a Managing Director of Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, where... Learn more »

Ray, Gene

Dr. Gene Wells Ray, Ph.D. has been Managing Director of GMT Ventures, since 2005. Dr. Ray has an extensive experience in technology, defense and government relations. Prior to GMT Ventures, he founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of... Learn more »

Senturia, Neil

Mr. Neil R. Senturia serves as Chief Executive Officer of Blackbird Ventures. Mr. Senturia serves as Chief Executive Officer of San Diego News Network, LLC, United States Local News Network Inc., Enviroclean Technologies, Oberon Fuels, Lono Cloud, and Quan... Learn more »

Viterbi, Andrew

Dr. Viterbi is a pioneer in the field of Wireless Communications. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from MIT, and his Ph.D. in digital communications from the University of Southern California (USC). He taught at UCLA and consulted for the Jet ... Learn more »