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ROGER
EVANS
General Partner
Greylock Partners
PERFORMANCE
As
an entrepreneur in the mid-1970s, Roger Evans focused
his attention on technological breakthroughs in communications
hardware, software, systems and services-and continued
his focus on these areas after joining Greylock Partners
in 1989. His investment in Ascend Communications in
San Francisco proved to be one of Greylock's most successful
ventures after it was sold to Lucent Technologies for
$23 billion. His other successes including leading Greylock's
investments in companies such as Argon Networks (acquired
by Siemens), Crosscomm (acquired by Olicom), Maker Communications
(acquired by Conexant), Openwave (OPWV), Sahara Networks
(acquired by Cascade), Sirocco Systems (acquired by
Sycamore), Whitetree (acquired by Ascend), Xircom (acquired
by Intel), and Zeitnet (acquired by Cabletron).
HERITAGE
Prior
to joining Greylock, Evans served as President and Chief
Executive Officer of Micom Systems, Inc., a data communications
equipment manufacturer, which he co-founded in 1976
and which was backed by Greylock Partners. The company
was sold for $400 million, and the newly-rich Evans
made the switch from entrepreneur to venture capitalist.
Evans also serves on the board of directors of Copper
Mountain Networks, Inc., a provider of digital subscriber
line networking systems, as well as several other privately
held companies.
ENGINEERING
A
native of England, Evans graduated with an M.A. degree
in economics from King's College in Cambridge.
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