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David has extensive experience advising, building and investing in leading communications and digital media technology companies, an increasing number of whom have significant operations and markets in China. His most recent investments focus on emerging technologies that are solving some of the broadcast and entertainment industry's toughest problems. For example, infrastructure company Exavio has completely redefined the real-time post-production process for editing uncompressed HDTV, and is enabling new methods for distributing personalized TV and other video content over IP. David focuses his investments on early-stage communications and digital media companies. He is currently on the boards of Celestial, Exalt and Exavio. His past investments include HotRail (acquired by Conexant) and PortalPlayer (Nasdaq: PLAY). David joined ComVentures from JPMorgan Partners, where he was a General Partner and the global head of the firm's communications, semiconductors and storage technology venture investment group. Previously, David was a member of the founding team of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (DMG) Technology Group, which later became a part of Credit Suisse First Boston. There, he established the global communications equipment practice, advising and investing in numerous early-stage companies. David holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. | 