Primary Job Title Team Member Primary Organization 
Horizon Ventures
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Doug is a networking industry veteran with over 15 years of marketing and business development experience. He has broad knowledge and investment experience in the data networking, multimedia, and Internet Infrastructure area.
Doug’s prior operational roles included serving as VP of Marketing for Precept Software, a network video software company
which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998. He was also VP of marketing and business development for First Virtual Communications. Prior to FVC, Doug was a senior executive for four years at Cisco Systems in product marketing, business development, and major accounts. Prior to Cisco, Doug held marketing and technical management positions at 3Com/Bridge Communications and Hewlett-Packard.
Doug has funded and worked with numerous high-tech startup companies as an angel investor. He has served on the Board of Directors of AudioTalk, a leading Internet voice company which was acquired by HearMe; Vertex Networks, an Ethernet switching chip company which was acquired by Mitel Corp. and was also an early investor and advisor for other networking companies such as Rapidstream, Amplify.net and Centrum Communications which was acquired by 3Com.
Doug holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a MBA degree from Santa Clara University. He is the past president and board member of the Asian Americans Manufacturer's Association (AAMA) and a current board member of the Hong Kong-SV.com organization.
