Ketan Patel Senior Associate

Ketan Patel, Senior Associate, joined New Venture Partners in 2006. Previously, Mr. Patel 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 in 2002, Mr. Patel worked in a similar capacity with the Sales and Marketing organization at eMpowerTel Networks. At eMpowerTel, he lead 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. Mr. Patel also 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. Currently, he is a board observer of GainSpan, Inc. and SiPort, Inc.

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