Ketan Patel

Ketan Patel, Principal, joined New Venture Partners in 2006.

Previously, he worked in a variety of operational roles in the semiconductor industry, encompassing startups and large multinational corporations. At Cavium Networks, Inc., he was part of the technical sales and marketing organization responsible for the commercialization of the industry's first 10Gbps in-line security processor. He also was responsible for managing the deployment of Cavium's technology within several of Cavium's tier-one customers, including Cisco, Furukawa, Fujitsu, and EMC.

Prior to joining Cavium, Ketan worked in a similar capacity with the Sales and Marketing organization at eMpowerTel Networks. At eMpowerTel, he led the company's field organization and also worked closely with customers and design teams to define product features, outline product roadmaps, and manage new product releases. He was a lead member of the network processor implementation team at Tiara Networks (sold to Nortel Networks); aided the unit-level integration efforts at MIPS Technologies; and was part of the design team that introduced multiple novel 64-bit CPUs at Silicon Graphics. He also worked in a large, private investment fund active in direct and fund-level venture investments.

Ketan holds a BS, magna cum laude, in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, an MS, cum laude, in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

New Venture Partners, the global venture capital firm dedicated to corporate technology spin-outs, has over $700 million under management. New Venture Partners provides a bridge between technology corporations and traditional venture capital. Starting in 1997 as Lucent Technologies New Ventures Group and operating as an independent firm since 2001, the New Venture Partners team has launched dozens of companies built upon innovations from Bell Labs, British Telecom, Philips, and other major technology companies.

Current Investments:

EverSpin

GainSpan

Intelleflex

SiPort

TimeSight Systems