Fahri Diner

Venture capitalist, Organization leader

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Who is Fahri Diner?

During his 15-year entrepreneurial career in the high-tech industry,

Fahri repeatedly demonstrated his savvy in conceiving compelling value

propositions and building high-tech organizations to successfully

execute aggressive business plans. Having joined Sigma Partners in

2006, Fahri applies his expertise by identifying strong entrepreneurs

with good ideas, then funding and helping build market-leading

companies.

Background

Fahri’s

entrepreneurial career in the communications industry spanned

responsibilities in engineering, product management, marketing, and

executive management. Fahri was the Founder, President, and CEO of

Qtera Corporation. Fahri led Qtera to become the leading provider of

ultra-long-haul photonic networking solutions for the Optical Internet.

Nortel Networks acquired the company for $3.25 billion in stock, and

Fahri continued to lead Qtera as President of the wholly-owned

subsidiary until 2001. Before founding Qtera, Fahri was a member of the

executive team at Siemens where he helped establish and manage the

company's Optical Networks business unit in North America, which was

later spun-off as Optisphere Networks. Prior to joining Siemens, Fahri

led Pirelli's pioneering activities in the optical amplifier and

Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) markets, including the

introduction of the first terrestrial WDM system and the first

multi-channel, bi-directional optical amplifiers in North America. The

optical systems division of Pirelli was later acquired by Cisco Systems

for $2.15 billion. Just prior to joining Sigma, Fahri founded Concept

Ventures in 2005 by acquiring a portion of the assets of Applied

Materials Ventures in which he served as Managing Director.

Education

A

native of Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean, Fahri came to the

United States in 1985 on full academic scholarship to the Florida

Institute of Technology, where he earned his B.S. degree in Electrical

Engineering. Fahri holds five patents in the field of fiber optics and

optical communications.

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Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Cyprus
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor of Science, Florida Institute of Technology
    Electrical engineering
Employment
  • Managing Director, Sigma Partners
    (2006 - )
  • Managing Director, Applied Materials Ventures
  • Founder, President and CEO, Qtera
    ( - 2001)
  • Siemens
  • Pirelli

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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