Vinod Dham

Vinod Dham (Hindi: विनोद धाम) (born 1950 in Pune, India) is a venture capitalist.

Vinod completed his undergraduate education in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering. In 1971, after graduation, he joined a Delhi-based semiconductor company called Continental Devices. In 1975, he left this job and joined University of Cincinnati to pursue a masters degree in Electrical Engineering, where he specialized in Solid State Science. After completing his masters degree in 1977, he joined NCR Corporation at Dayton, Ohio. He then joined Intel, and started working on the Pentium chip. He rose to the position of vice-president of Intel. He left Intel in 1995, and joined a number of startups including NexGen, which was acquired by AMD, and then went on to Silicon Spice. He is also the co-founding partner of New Path Ventures which has funded Companies like [http://www.nevisnetworks.com Nevis Networks] . In an interview, Dham revealed that he came to the United States with only "$8 in his pocket". [VentureBeat, July 2008]

References

ee also

* Pentium
* AMD K6

External links

* [http://www.dce.edu/alumni/archives/dham.html Article on Vinod Dham]
* [http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/vinod-dham.html Vinod Dham]
* [http://www.my-esm.com/daily/040398news5.html Former Intel, AMD Exec Joins Telecom Startup Silicon Spice]
* [http://www.podtech.net/home/1291/the-kamla-bhatt-show-vinod-dham-father-of-pentium-processor-on-investing-in-india Video - Father of Pentium Processor on Investing in India]