Ms Marianne Wu

KANDO id: 8743

Bio

Ms Marianne Wu is a Partner who concentrates on opportunities in the energy landscape – generating energy, storing energy, or managing and controlling the use of energy. She joined Mohr Davidow in 2005 She has spent her entire career straddling the intersection between technology and business and is driven in her pursuit of companies that combine both to drive significant change. There are moments, she says, when technology and the marketplace are changing in just the right way that the entrepreneur who brings them together can have a huge influence over the future of an entire industry Ms Marianne is a veteran of numerous successful start-ups. These range from development roles at Creo (acquired by Kodak for $2B) and Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel for over $7B) and Vice President, Marketing at ONI Systems (public market cap of $15B, later acquired by Ciena). She also understands large, established companies. She was a consultant at McKinsey & Co providing strategic and operational counsel to the executives of Fortune 500 clients and started her career at Nortel Networks where she developed their revolutionary WDM products. She has demonstrated the ability to find new market opportunities and develop and launch products to serve them and is an ardent believer that companies can use culture as a competitive advantage Ms Wu was named one of the Top 10 Women in Cleantech and one of Silicon Valley’s Women of Influence Ms Marianne is on the board of Laurus Energy and a board observer for Catilin, Genomatica, Xicato and ZeaChem She is on the Board of Advisors of the Cleantech Open, UC Santa Barbara, the Asian American Multi-technology Association (AAMA), and the HYSTA VC Group Ms Marianne earned her Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics at the University of British Columbia and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University

Career


Congruent Ventures

Early stage venture fund focused on climate tech and sustainable technologies.

Mohr Davidow Ventures

Venture capital firm in California that focuses on early stage technology-based startups.
Partner (past)
Email: [email protected]

Education