Team Bios
Team Biographies
| North America Nagraj Kashyap Nagraj is a Senior Director at Qualcomm Ventures and heads up worldwide activities for the group. Nagraj has over 12 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to his current role, he worked in various engineering and management capacities at Nortel, 3COM, Motorola, PRTM and Qualcomm. Nagraj currently manages and actively serves as a board observer for Qualcomm Ventures investments in Airplay Networks, GoTV Networks, Novarra, Obopay, Triage Wireless and WaveMarket. Nagraj has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Quinn Li Quinn Li is a Senior Investment Manager at Qualcomm Ventures. Quinn has over ten years of experience in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry and has worked in various engineering and management capacities at Lucent, Broadcom and IBM. Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures, he spent several years in product management at IBM, responsible for ASIC offerings and business development activities in China. Quinn currently manages and actively serves as a board observer for Qualcomm Ventures investments in A123 Systems, AMEC, Digit Wireless, Discera, InvenSense and Siimpel. Quinn holds an MBA from Cornell University, a Ph.D. and BS in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Patrick Eggen Patrick is an Investment Manager at Qualcomm Ventures. Prior to joining Qualcomm, he worked for Salomon Smith Barney’s Investment Banking unit for 4 years in their Chicago, London and Hong Kong offices. He was a member of Salomon’s Global Telecommunications team – involved in both M&A advisory roles and capital-raising transactions. Patrick currently manages and actively serves as a board observer for Qualcomm Ventures investments in Aicent, Juice Wireless and Digital Orchid. Patrick has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management with a concentration in Finance and International Business Strategy and a B.A. from Northwestern University. Keith Muhart Keith is a Senior Manager, Marketing at Qualcomm Ventures. Keith has 8 years experience in the wireless telecommunications industry. Prior to his current role, he managed research & competitive intelligence at Kyocera Wireless and was a research analyst at Wingcast, a Qualcomm JV. Keith currently manages all research and marketing activities for Qualcomm Ventures and participates in the due-diligence process for all prospective investments. Keith has an M.B.A. from Thunderbird, School of Global Management and a BA from George Mason University. Larry Griffith Larry is a Senior Manager, Finance at Qualcomm Ventures. Larry has over 13 years of experience in accounting and finance for start up and venture backed companies. Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures, he worked for various venture backed companies after beginning his career as an auditor at Ernst & Young. Larry currently manages all aspects of finance and accounting for Qualcomm Ventures including support of existing portfolio companies and assisting with due diligence efforts for investment opportunities. Larry is a Certified Public Accountant and received his B.S. in Accounting from Loyola Marymount University. Richard Tapalaga Richard is a Staff Financial Analyst at Qualcomm Ventures. He has over seven years of experience working in various financial and business development capacities at Merrill Lynch & Co, Lux Capital, Equastone and Société Générale. Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures, Richard worked at Société Générale, leading leveraged finance deal teams in the Gaming, Lodging & Leisure sector. Richard is responsible for market investment-specific analysis and due-diligence for investment opportunities as well as portfolio management and performance tracking of investments for Qualcomm Ventures. Richard holds an M.B.A. from Cornell University with a concentration in Private Equity and Venture Capital and a B.S. from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Jack Young Mr. Young is Senior Investment Manager at QUALCOMM Ventures. His investment interest spans across the wireless sector including enabling technologies, applications, devices and infrastructure. Currently, Jack represents Qualcomm as a board observer for Pixsense and Validity Sensors. Prior to QUALCOMM Ventures, Jack was EVP/US Country Manager at ZTE who helped to establish ZTE's US market presence. He was a sales and marketing executive at Nokia following the acquisition of Amber Network where he was founding AVP of marketing. Early in his career, he held marketing and business development positions with 3Com, GDC, and Nortel. Jack earned a BS, a MSEE from University of Calgary, and a MBA from McGill University. International  James Shen James is Sr. Director of Qualcomm Venture China and is GM of UNI-BREW, the joint venture of Qualcomm and China Unicom. He currently manages and actively serves as a board observer for Qualcomm Ventures investments in Great Wall Software and TechFaith Software. Prior to his current role, James had a number of management positions with Qualcomm China, including the head of QIS China. Prior to Qualcomm, James provided leadership to 2 telecom startups: As Co-founder/CEO of NeTrue Communications, James pioneered VoIP solutions and grew the company to be public in 2000. As Vice President at General Photonics, James was in charge of sales, marketing and business development for its optical communications signal measurement and control products from 2000 to 2002. James received a Master’s degree in Communication Management from University of Southern California and BS degree in Electronic Engineering from Zheijing University.  Frederic Rombaut Frederic is a Director at Qualcomm Europe and heads up Qualcomm Ventures European operations based in London. Frederic has a 19 year background in both private equity and wireless communication. He's a former partner at APAX PARTNERS where he served as a board member for a number of fast growing technology companies. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Frederic was Managing Director & CFO at Noos, a major French cable operator and earlier in his career he co-founded Bouygues Telecom and worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Frederic currently manages and actively serves as a board observer for Qualcomm Ventures investments in Streamezzo and Arieso. Frederic holds an MSc in Electronic Engineering (ECE Paris), and received his MBA from the Sorbonne University (IAE Paris). He's a senior lecturer in Finance & Entrepreneurship at HEC and ENST Paris. Jason Ball Jason Ball is a Senior Investment Manager at Qualcomm Ventures Europe and is based in London. Jason has 8 years experience working with internet and mobile software start-ups. Prior to joining Qualcomm, he was the Investment Director at London Seed Capital, a seed and early stage venture capital fund, where he focused on material science and internet technology investments. Jason holds an MBA from ESADE in Barcelona, where he was given the “Innovation and Strategy Award” from the Boston Consulting Group, and a BS in Chemistry from Mississippi College.  Karthee Madasamy Karthee is a Senior Investment Manager at Qualcomm Ventures and is based in Bangalore, India. Karthee has over 10 years of experience in the wireless and multimedia industries and has worked in product development and management roles at various semiconductor startups. Prior to his current role, he worked as a management consulting intern at Boston Consulting Group and as an associate at the venture capital firm, JK&B Capital. Karthee currently manages and actively serves as a board observer for Qualcomm Ventures investments in Kirusa and Tessolve. Karthee holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. |
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