Ullas Naik

Who is Ullas Naik?

Ullas is a Managing Director with Globespan and works out of the

firm's Palo Alto office. He serves on the boards of BladeLogic,

Certeon, Copan Systems, GlassHouse Technologies, Millennial Net,

Nantero, and Revivio. and was formerly on the board of Pirus Networks

(acquired by Sun Microsystems). Ullas is also actively involved with

Globespan's investments in Incipient, m-Qube, and Virtusa.

Prior

to Globespan, Ullas was a Managing Director in JAFCO Venture's Boston

office, where he was responsible for several of the firm's software and

infrastructure investments. Prior to JAFCO Ventures, Ullas was a Senior

Vice President in the Technology Research Group at FAC-Equities/First

Albany. At FAC-Equities, he led the public financings of companies

including IDT Corp. (IDTC), Critical Path (CPTH), Forrester Research

(FORR), Mainspring (MSPR - acquired by IBM), NaviSite (NAVI), and USWeb

(USWB - acquired by MarchFirst). During his tenure at FAC-Equities,

Ullas was rated by Fortune magazine as a Wall Street "All Star" and by

The Wall Street Journal as one the top technology analysts in the

country.

While at FAC-Equities, Ullas was an active angel

investor in leading technology companies including Arbinet (ARBX),

Critical Path (CPTH), Ecora, InterTrust (ITRU), iRobot and others. He

began his career as the founder and operator of a specialty chemicals

trading company in India. Ullas received an MBA from Bentley College

and a BS in Chemistry from Bombay University.