Umesh Padval

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Mr. Umesh Padval serves as Chairman of the Board at Avalanche Technology. He serves as a Board Member at Isovalent. He serves as Venture Partner at Thomvest Ventures. He focuses on investments in the cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure sectors and works closely with founders and CEOs to develop disruptive platform solutions. He currently serves as a Board Member at Avalanche Technology, Bolster, Qwiet AI, and Impinj, and as a Board Observer at Clari and ShieldX. He served as a Board Member at Tactus Technology. He is also an investor in Baffle. Prior to joining Thomvest, he was a successful entrepreneur, investor, and CEO of a public company. He most recently worked for over 8 years at Bessemer Venture Partners in their Menlo Park offices. Prior to Bessemer, he was an Executive Vice President at LSI after its acquisition of a public video infrastructure and distribution company in C-Cube Microsystems, where he served as President and CEO. He has served on over 30 public and private company boards, bringing extensive operating experience and skill sets valued by CEOs and founders. Previously he was a Board Member at Mellanox (Public, Sold to Nvidia), ThousandEyes (Private, sold to Cisco), Integrated Device Technology (Public, Sold to Renesas), Lastline (Private, Sold to VMware), Blue Willow Systems (Private, Sold to Philips), Avnera (Private, Sold to Skyworks), Skyhigh Networks (Private, Sold to McAfee), C-Cube Microsystems (Public, Sold to LSI), Entropic Communications (Public, Sold to Maxlinear), Silicon Image (Public, Sold to Lattice), Elantec (Public, Sold to Intersil), Berkeley Design Automation (Private, Sold to Mentor Graphics), Monolithic Power Systems (Public), Tilera (Private, Sold to EZchip) and PA Semi (Private, Sold to Apple). He holds a Bachelor's in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and a Master's in Engineering from Stanford University. He has served on several advisory boards at Stanford University and currently serves on the board of Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Sutter Pacific Group."