N Darius Sankey

Bio

Dr Sankey is a Managing Director at Zone Ventures, a seed to early stage venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. Dr Sankey has led the Zone Ventures technology assessment efforts and overseen its portfolio investments for over eight years, serving as a board member for several companies including Siimpel Corporation, Lumexis Inc and Microfabrica and Neven Vision (Acquired by Google). He has led several transactions in the micro electronics, wireless telecommunications, media & entertainment, and business & consumer software sectors. Dr Sankey has a strong interest in strategizing market applications for basic science research on the university level. This interest has also led him to a position as adjunct professor in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Before his tenure at Zone Ventures, Dr Sankey worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company Inc and held strategic planning, consulting, and R&D positions at RAND and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Dr Sankey holds a BS in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT and a PhD in Optical Engineering from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester.