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Greg MauroManaging PartnerGreg Mauro is Founder and Managing Partner of Revolution Ventures. Greg leads Revolution's investment efforts, which include founding investments in Gazillion, Quantcast, Entropic, Nextivity, and SmartDrive. Greg also has a long track record as a serial entrepreneur, including starting several Revolution portfolio companies. Greg is founder and former CEO of Nextivity, named to the FierceWireless 'Fierce 15' list and creator of Cel-Fi, a break-though smart repeater for consumers. Greg is also founder, Vice Chairman, and former President of SmartDrive, a video-enabled driver monitoring and advanced safety service for fleets backed by Revolution, Oak Investment Partners and New Enterprise Associates. At Entropic (ENTR), in addition managing Revolution's founding investment, Greg authored the Entropic business plan while Vice President of Business Development and led fundraising efforts, securing over $75M in strategic investment from Time Warner, Cisco, Intel, Panasonic, Motorola, Dish Network, and Comcast. Prior to Revolution, Greg founded Tachyon, a pioneer in broadband-over-satellite whose service is utilized globally today, including by U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Across his endeavors, Greg has been on the founding team of ventures that have raised over $450M in aggregate venture capital, and Greg has personally raised over $250M of this funding. Greg started his career as a strategy consultant for Monitor Group, a global strategy consulting firm. Greg has been active in the charter school movement since 2001, and has developed innovative financing vehicles to fuel their expansion. Currently, Greg is a Board Director at SmartDrive, Gazillion, and Nextivity. He is a board observer at Symwave and CombineNet and a Trustee at the High Tech High Foundation. Greg is a graduate of UCLA's College of Honors and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. Greg is an avid traveler and has visited over ninety countries. Greg enjoys cycling, skiing, surfing and car racing. In the 2008 Gumball 3000, Greg secured the land speed record from Xuzhou to Beijing, a distance of 450 miles.
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