Management Team

Robert A. Young

Prior to joining Darwin Ventures as a Partner, Bob was a co-founding Managing Director of Mirador Capital LLC, a private equity firm investing in venture capital.

Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of Curl Corporation, an Internet infrastructure software company. Prior to that, Bob was a senior partner and Managing Director at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., an investment bank where he had corporate finance responsibility for information technology companies. He had previously served as the Managing General Partner of Dillon Read's venture capital funds from 1987 to 1994. Bob's personally directed investments included SanDisk, Tessera, Virtual Machine Works and Team Bank.

Bob started his business career with 18 years at IBM where his last position was as President, IBM Instruments, a fully integrated global company with operations in the US and several European countries. IBM Instruments' products consisted of a broad range of scientific instruments and real-time scientific computers.

Bob is a founding investor and Director of Tessera (NASDAQ: TSRA), the leading semi-conductor interconnect technology company. Bob is also a Director of several private technology companies.

Bob has served on the visiting committees of the both the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Chemistry at MIT and is an advisor to PolyTechnos, a European venture capital firm headquartered in Munich. He holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT.

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