Jack Carsten is a semiconductor industry veteran with 12 years of venture capital investment experience. Prior to forming Horizon Ventures, Jack managed Technology Investments, a private investment firm in Los Altos, California. The fund focused on the formation of seed and early stage information technology firms, building their management teams and organizing syndicates of professional investors. Before founding Technology Investments, Jack was a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners in Menlo Park, California a $325M venture capital partnership managing a broad portfolio of medical, retail and information technology investments. Prior to U.S.V.P., Jack was a Vice President of Intel Corporation. Originally hired as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, he was named to head the Microprocessor Division in 1979 and subsequently was named Senior Vice President for Components Group Operations. Prior to Intel, he was a division manager at Texas Instruments in their MOS and TTL Divisions. Jack was a founder of the Band of Angels investment club and of the Valley Medical Center Foundation. He holds a B.A. degree in Physics from Duke University and did MBA studies at Southern Methodist University.