Mr Andrew Garman

KANDO id: 7806

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Andrew R. Garman, Managing Partner, was a founder of New Venture Partners. Today, he attends to the needs of the firm’s limited partners and investors, developing partnerships with major technology corporations, collaborating with the team on creating and investing in new ventures, with emphasis on energy and environmental technologies. Andy has twenty five years of investment and management experience in the formation of new ventures and the commercialization of technology from corporations and institutional labs. He has worked closely with senior R&D management at many of the world's top technology companies, including IBM, Philips, British Telecom, Siemens, Lucent, SRI, and Xerox. Previously he was a Vice President at Lucent Technologies, charged with developing ventures from Bell Labs; the Managing Director of BT Ventures at Bankers Trust Company, where he managed a portfolio of internally generated spin-outs in information technology; and Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Xerox’s New Enterprise Group, commercializing the technology of Xerox, including that of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Andy has served on the boards of companies in the U.S. such as Vallent Corp. (acquired by IBM), Celiant Corporation (acquired by Andrew Corporation), Lucent Public Safety Systems (acquired by Intrado), Placeware (acquired by Microsoft), InXight Software, Inc. (acquired by Business Objects), SiPort (acquired by Intel), Amati Communications Corp. (acquired by Texas Instruments), dpiX Inc., AcuPrint Inc., Document Forum (acquired by TheLaw.com), Chrystal Software (now Astoria) and iBiquity Digital Corporation (as an observer); in the U.K. including Azure Solutions Ltd. (acquired by Subex), Psytechnics Ltd. (acquired by NetScout), and Vidus Ltd. (acquired by @Road); and in India: Subex Limited (SUBEX.NS). He began his career doing research and development in alternative energy systems, combustion and air pollution, authoring or co-authoring 23 technical publications. Andy holds an AB in Engineering and Applied Physics from Harvard College, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was named an Arjay Miller Scholar. He is a past president of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association and member of the Dean's Board of Advisors and a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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