Winston Fu

Who is Winston Fu?

Winston Fu is a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners, and he enjoys helping

entrepreneurs build teams that are passionate, fun-loving and fanatical

about their pursuit to build great companies.

Winston serves on the boards of Active-Semi International, CiraNova, Ponte Solutions, Princeton Lightwave, Superprotonic,

and Teknovus. During the past decade, Winston also served on the boards of Alchemy (acquired by AMD in 2002), Brion

Technologies (acquired by ASML in 2007), Clear Shape Technologies (acquired by Cadence in 2007) and New Focus (NUFO made its

initial public offering in 2000 and was subsequently acquired by Bookham in 2004).

Winston joined USVP as an associate in 1997, following his

selection as a Kauffman Fellow in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship,

and he became a General Partner in 2000. Prior to joining USVP, Winston

served in technical and marketing roles at Vixel Corporation, which

made its initial public offering in 1999 (NASDAQ: VIXL) and was

subsequently acquired by Emulex (ELX) in 2003. As director of product

marketing, he was responsible for developing new applications for the

VCSEL device product line at Vixel. Prior to helping launch Vixel,

Winston researched and developed technologies in the areas of

semiconductors, lasers and superconductors at Stanford University,

Sandia National Labs and MIT.

Winston earned a bachelor's degree in Physics from MIT, a Ph.D.

in Applied Physics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he was an

Austin Scholar.