Primary Job Title Industry Partner Primary Organization 
Ariva Partners
Location Portola Valley, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male Also Known As Andy
Investor Type Investor Stage Number of Exits
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Andrew Ludwick is an Industry Partner at Ariva Partners. Andrew has a combined thirty five years of experience as an operating executive, entrepreneur and private venture investor.
Andrew was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at SynOptics Communications, a leader in the LAN market and the pioneer in the use of copper twisted pair
wiring for high speed networking. Andrew led the company from inception to over $2 billion in revenue.
Andrew also served as the Chief Executive Officer at Bay Networks (formed by the merger of SynOptics and Wellfleet) from 1995-1997.
Prior to SynOptics, Andrew served as an operating executive at Xerox.
Andrew has been active as a private investor in technology startups for 8 years and was an early investor in Fast Forward Networks and Foundry Networks.
Andrew’s venture relationships include Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, Accel Partners and Redpoint Ventures.
Andrew holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard College.
