Jack Carsten

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Biography

Mr. Jack Carsten co-founded Band of Angels. He served as Chairman at Toolwire. He co-founded and served as Managing Director and Board Member at Horizon Ventures. He was a Board Member at Theta Microelectronics. Prior to forming Horizon Ventures in 1999, he managed Technology Investments, a seed investment firm in Los Altos, California. The fund focused on the formation of seed-stage information technology firms, building their management teams, and organizing syndicates of professional investors. Before founding Technology Investments in 1991, he was a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners in Menlo Park, California. Prior to U.S.V.P., he was a Senior Vice President of Intel Corporation who from 1975 to 1987 helped them to grow from a $35M startup to revenue of over $2.5B. Originally hired as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, he was named as the first head of the Microprocessor Group. Subsequently, he was named Senior Vice President for the Components Group, responsible for all semiconductor manufacturing and engineering. Prior to Intel, he was a Division Manager at Texas Instruments for their MOS and TTL Divisions. He is a founder of the "Band of Angels" investment club and of the Valley Medical Center Foundation. He holds a B.A. degree in Physics from Duke University.