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Rob Chandra

 
Board Dir. - Kovio Inc.
 
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Company Name : Kovio Inc.
 
Company Website : www.kovio.com
 
Company Address : 1145 Sonora Ct.
, Sunnyvale, CA,
United States,
 
Rob Chandra Profile :
Board Dir. - Kovio Inc.
 
Rob Chandra Biography :

"Kovio's many technical break-throughs coupled with a very entrepreneurial management team has the potential to deliver innovative products to enterprises and consumers for many years ahead. For the first time in the semiconductor industry, we can envision printed integrated circuits that are produced at a fraction of the cost and energy consumption of traditional silicon."



Rob Chandra is a Managing Partner in Bessemer's Menlo Park office. Since entering the venture capital industry in 1996, Rob has been involved with 19 early-stage investments that have gone public or have been acquired by public companies.



Rob is the founding managing partner of the firm's investment practice in China and India where he recruited an experienced local team, established the offices, led investments in Anant Raj, BA Systems, Rico Auto, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, New Vernon Capital, Sarovar, and Shriram EPC, and contributed to the firm's investment in FG Wireless. Rob is active in the semiconductor industry and led the firm's investments in Avnera, Berkeley Design, PA Semi, and Summit Micro. Rob is also interested in printed electronics, alternative energy, and consumer driven health care and led the firm's investments in Kovio and Miasolè and is involved with IPC - The Hospitalists Company.



Over his career, Rob has helped build companies in a variety of industries. He was involved with communications equipment ventures such as Altiga (acquired by Cisco), Catena (acquired by Ciena), NBX (acquired by 3Com), and Wavesmith Networks (acquired by Ciena). He has experience with semiconductor investments such as Envoy (acquired by TI), LightLogic (acquired by Intel), Mellanox (IPO), Mobilian (acquired by Intel), and Morphics (acquired by Infineon). Rob has also been involved with consumer internet start-ups such as BuyerZone.com (acquired by Reed Elsevier),Direct Hit (acquired by Ask Jeeves), SmarterKids.com (IPO), MotherNature.com (IPO) and Centra (IPO), and a health care investment, American Hearing Centers (acquired by HearUSA).



Prior to joining Bessemer, Rob was a general partner with Commonwealth Capital Ventures, which he joined after 10 years of industry experience. Rob was an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company in their Los Angeles and then Palo Alto offices where he served high tech and health care related clients. Previously, Rob spent three years with Accenture working in their San Francisco, London, and then New York offices where he served financial services and high tech clients. Rob worked for IBM in sales and marketing where he focused on the Unix workstation product line. Early in his career, Rob worked in the strategic planning department for Lucky Stores which was acquired by Albertsons, the nation's second largest grocery chain.



Rob holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from University of California at Berkeley. In his spare time, Rob is active in Palo Alto youth sports and coaches little league baseball. He roots for the 49ers and Giants, plays golf, has an interest in global politics, and enjoys reading.

 
Rob Chandra Colleagues :
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Amir Mashkoori

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Vik Pavate

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Richard Young

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Jiang Li

VP - Engineering Please login

Vinod Khosla

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