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SETH
NEIMAN
Managing Partner
Crosspoint Venture Partners
PERFORMANCE
Through his career at Crosspoint Venture Partners, Seth
Neiman has helped create more than a dozen communications-oriented
start ups. His investing focus is network equipment,
optical systems, and broadband enabled service businesses.
Under Neiman, Crosspoint Venture Partners has become
an early stage equity investor with focused expertise
in two strategic areas: the Internet and Health Care.
The partnership now has a capital base of more than
$500 million, and is sponsored by institutions, pension
funds, university endowments, foundations and individuals.
HERITAGE
After joining the firm in 1994, Neiman conceived of
and became the founding CEO of Brocade Communications
Systems. Since then, he has also been the lead investor
and board member of a number of leading broadband networking
companies, including Foundry Networks, Avanex, iPass,
Shoreline, Juniper and NexPrise. Prior to Crosspoint,
Neiman spent 17 years as an entrepreneur and engineering
VP in both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.
ENGINEERING
Neiman has a B.A. in philosophy from Ohio State University,
where he also studied computer science as a graduate.
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