Elton B. Sherwin

Who is Elton B. Sherwin?

Prior to founding Ridgewood Capital Palo Alto in 1999, Elton Sherwin

established the West Coast office of Motorola Ventures. Elton spent 20

years at IBM and Motorola where his products won numerous awards,

including the Best New Technology award at COMDEX. In 1994 Discover

Magazine selected him as Software Innovator of the Year. The U.S.

Patent Office has granted him eight patents.

Ridgewood

Capital is a private equity firm with offices in Palo Alto, California

and Ridgewood, New Jersey. Ridgewood has built a diverse portfolio of

premier technology companies in the semiconductor, fixed and wireless

communications, energy technology and enterprise services sectors

including mixed-signal semiconductor companies Ikanos Communications,

Volterra, and Peregrine Semiconductor. Ikanos and Volterra have

recently completed successful initial public offerings.