Ken Lawler

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Biography

Mr. Ken Lawler is the Founding Partner and served as Principal at Silicon Ventures. He has over 27 years of Venture Capital experience focused primarily on semiconductor and networking infrastructure technology investments. Most recently Ken spent 17 years as a General Partner at Battery Ventures where he helped open and subsequently managed the Firm's Menlo Park office. During his tenure at Battery, Ken was responsible for the Firm's semiconductor industry initiatives with investments in SigmaTel (NASDAQ: SGTL), Advanced Analogic Technologies (NASDAQ: AATI), MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL), Lara Networks (acquired by Cypress Semiconductor), Optichron (acquired by NetLogic), Calxeda, Amalfi Semiconductor and Zenverge. Prior to joining Battery in 1995, Ken spent 10 years in Venture Capital at Patricof & Co. Ventures and Berkeley International Capital Corporation. Before starting his Venture Capital career in 1985, he worked in product management at Advanced Micro Devices and in engineering management at Teradyne and Fairchild Semiconductor. Ken holds BS and MS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.