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  Vinod K. Dham
Executive Managing Director
As a pioneer in the technology industry, Vinod (Vin) Dham is the acknowledged "Father of the Pentium" microprocessor. He successfully executed on his previous fund, NewPath Ventures, and is building NEA-IndoUS Ventures on similar principles. Prior to NewPath Ventures, Vinod was the Chairman,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Spice Inc., which was acquired by Broadcom Corporation.

Vin spent 16 years of his career at Intel Corporation where he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of the Microprocessor Products group.

After Intel, Vin joined microprocessor start up "NexGen", as its Chief Operating Officer. At NexGen Vin was instrumental in redefining Nexgen's processor direction, and engineering the merger with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). At AMD Vin became the Group Vice President, and oversaw the launch of K6 the world's fastest windows processor at that time.

In 1993, Vin was named as one of the top 25 executives in the computer industry in America. In 1999, he was named as one of the top 100 most influential Asian Americans of the decade. In 2000, Vin was appointed to serve on the US President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Currently he serves on the Boards of Satyam, Sasken, Hellosoft, InSilica, Minekey, Nevis, Telsima and Montalvo. Vin has co-authored numerous technical papers and patents.

Vin has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

vin@neaiuv.com

 
   
 
In India the total mergers and acquisitions and private equity deals are up 82% from $21 billion in 2006 to $38 billion in 2007.
- Economic Times