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Greg MauroManaging Partner
Greg Mauro is Managing Partner of Revolution Ventures, and has taken an active role in several portfolio companies. Greg is the co-founder and former CEO of Nextivity, a wireless technology company backed by Revolution, Goldman Sachs and Advanced Technology Partners. Greg is also Founder and Vice Chairman of SmartDrive, a web-based risk management company backed by Revolution, Oak Investments, and New Enterprise Associates. Prior to these ventures, Greg was the first Vice President of Business Development at semiconductor companies Entropic (Nasdaq: ENTR), RF Magic, and Symwave where Revolution is also an original investor. Greg has successfully led campaigns to raise over $300M in follow-on capital for Revolution portfolio companies, securing strategic investment from such leading companies as Intel, Cisco, Time Warner, Comcast, Panasonic, and Motorola. Mauro started his career as a strategy consultant for Monitor Group, a global strategy consulting firm founded by Michael Porter of Harvard Business School. Later, Greg led the sale of ComStream's semiconductor division, a digital communications pioneer, to Conexant Systems. Greg was responsible for initiating ComStream's cable modem business and, later, Conexant's digital television businesses. Mauro was a co-founder at Tachyon, the world's first broadband satellite network. Tachyon has received over $125M in investment to expand globally and is utilized today by U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently, Greg is a Board Director at SmartDrive, NR2B Research, Nextivity, Starscriber and a Board Observer at Symwave and CombineNet. Greg is a graduate of UCLA's College of Honors. He is a Trustee at the High Tech High Foundation, a pioneering charter school in California. He is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. Greg is an avid traveler who has visited over ninety countries on six continents.
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