Bandel Carano

Bio

Mr Carano joined Oak in 1985 after two years with Morgan Stanley's Venture Capital Group. He was responsible for advising Morgan Stanley on high-tech new business development, as well as sponsoring venture investments. At Oak, Mr Carano has invested in companies with emphasis on design automation (Interconnectix, Parametric, Synopsys and Tensilica); telecommunications (2Wire, Airspan, Avici, CommVerge, CoreTek, FiberTower, General Bandwidth, Mahi Networks, Metawave, NeoPhotonics, Netopia, PictureTel, Polycom, PulsePoint, Qtera, Sentient Networks, Tegic, Trapeze, Wellfleet, White Rock Networks and WFI); software (Entropic, Illustra/Informix, Sybase, TeleAtlas and Visto); and advanced semiconductors (Actel, Airgo, CommQuest, Kenet, nLight, Resonext, SMIC, Stretch, Synaptics, and Virata). Mr Carano received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He currently serves on the Investment Advisory Board of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund.