James Wei

James Wei is the General Partner at Worldview Technology Partners.James co-founded Worldview Technology Partners in 1996 and has been a venture capitalist since 1991. He invests primarily in early stage semiconductor, component, and communications startups. James pioneered the model of integrating business development with venture capital. James Wei has served on our board of directors since June 2009. He was our Chairman from 2009 to 2014 and he is currently our Lead Director. James Wei has been a venture capitalist since 1991 and is currently a General Partner at Worldview Technology Partners, a venture capital firm he co-founded in 1996. Previously, James Wei was an investment manager at JAFCO from 1991 to 1996 and held engineering and marketing positions at Sony, a publicly traded consumer electronics company, and IBM, a publicly-traded information technology company during the 1980s. James Wei currently serves as a member of the board of directors at CommVerge Solutions. He was previously a board member of Cogent Communications Inc, iWorld Networking, Movaz Networks, Tensilica Inc, 3ParData Inc., Caly Networks, Agile Storage, Force10, Stretch Inc., Miradia Inc., Luxim, and Mistletoe Technologies. James Wei holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Our board of directors believes that James Wei’s focus on communications, internet, networking and systems technology as a venture capitalist, as well as his several years of operating experience with a number of technology companies, bring valuable industry and operations knowledge to our board and qualifies him to serve as one of our directors.