Tensilica Inc.

James Wei has been a venture capitalist for the past twelve years. He offers deep expertise in the communications and semiconductor industries and a unique insight and expertise in helping startup companies do business worldwide. James currently serves on the Board of Directors for Movaz Networks, Cogent Communications, 3PAR, Commverge Solutions, Tensilica, Force10 Networks, ONStor, XHP, and Stretch. He also works actively with Mirapoint, Catena Networks, and Sipix Imaging. He is also a founder and an investment committee member of Meritech Capital, a late stage information technology fund with $1.8 billion under management. Before founding Worldview, James was a Fund Manager at JAFCO, where he sponsored investments and developed Asian business development strategies for U.S. technology companies. He was a board member or observer for CommQuest Technologies, MMC Networks, NeoMagic, NVIDIA, and OSI. He also co-sponsored investments in ACC, Advanced Fibre Communications, Corvis, Tellium, Cosine, Oplink, Cyras, Tivoli Systems, Silicon Spice, Ciena, and Synernetics. Prior to JAFCO, James held engineering positions at Sony and IBM. James holds a BS degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.