Charles River Ventures Appoints Chris Baldwin to General Partner.Business Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2002 Charles River Charles River River, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. The longest river wholly in the state, it flows into Boston Bay after a course of about 80 mi (130 km). Navigable for about 7 mi (11 km), its estuary separates the cities of Boston and Cambridge. Ventures (CRV CRV Curve CRV Crew Return Vehicle (NASA) CRV California Redemption Value CRV Cassa Di Risparmio Di Vignola (Italian bank) CRV Call Reference Value (telecommunications) ), one of the nation's leading early-stage venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] , today announced that Chris Baldwin has been named general partner. Baldwin joined CRV as a partner in 1999 and is focused on making investments in the information technology sector, with an emphasis on storage and networking convergence, optics technologies and new computing paradigms. "In the three years that Chris has been with CRV, he has become an integral member of our investing team and built an outstanding portfolio of companies," said Bruce Sachs, general partner at CRV. "Chris first made his long experience in optics and networking a tangible asset Tangible Asset An asset that has a physical form such as machinery, buildings and land. Notes: This is the opposite of an intangible asset such as a patent or trademark. Whether an asset is tangible or intangible isn't inherently good or bad. to CRV and our portfolio companies, and then identified storage as an important emerging segment long before its current popularity. Chris has assembled technical expertise, entrepreneurial contacts and an excellent industry reputation in the storage market, enabling CRV to build a strong company portfolio in this important sector." Currently Baldwin serves as a director for Acopia Networks, EqualLogic, Mariko Systems, Nauticus Networks, Picolight, Pirus Networks and Storigen Systems. Baldwin joined CRV with 15 years of start-up experience in the data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. and telecommunications industries. Prior to CRV, Baldwin was vice president of marketing for Argon argon (är`gŏn) [Gr.,=inert], gaseous chemical element; symbol Ar; at. no. 18; at. wt. 39.948; m.p. −189.2°C;; b.p. −185.7°C;; density 1.784 grams per liter at STP; valence 0. Networks, which was acquired by Siemens in 1999. Before Argon, Baldwin spent three years at Cascade Communications Cascade Communications was a Westford, Massachusetts based manufacturer of communications equipment. Founding Cascade was founded by Desh Deshpande in 1990, and was led by CEO Dan Smith. Product Cascade made a compact Frame Relay system. as director of marketing where he developed and managed Cascade's $100+ million ATM switch business. Prior to Cascade, he served in an ATM technology marketing capacity at Chipcom Corporation. Earlier in his career, Chris designed three generations of fiber optic communications equipment at Digital Equipment Corporation; he also served as a member of the Polaroid's technical research staff for the industry's first erbium-doped optical fiber amplifiers. Baldwin received an AB with Honors in Electrical Engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. from Brown University and an MS in Optics from the University of Rochester The University of Rochester (UR) is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research university located in Rochester, New York. The university is one of 62 elected members of the Association of American Universities. . About Charles River Ventures Founded in 1970, Charles River Ventures (CRV) is one of the nation's oldest and most successful early-stage venture capital firms with $1.4 billion under management. CRV is dedicated to helping exceptional entrepreneurs turn their ideas into the next category leaders in the data communications and software & services sectors. To build these companies, CRV provides entrepreneurs with access to a unique combination of financial backing, start-up operations expertise and strategic business services. Over the past 10 years, CRV funds have been ranked among the industry's top performers. This superior investment record includes leading companies such as Cascade, Chipcom, CIENA, iBasis, Sonus Networks, SpeechWorks International and Vignette. CRV has offices in Boston, Mass. and Menlo Park, Calif. For more information visit www.crv.com. Note: Charles River Ventures is a service mark of Charles River Ventures, Inc. Other company and product names may be service marks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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