Primary Job Title Founder & GP Primary Organization Startup Capital Ventures
Location Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage
John is a former general partner of Startup Capital Ventures and is now a Special Fund Advisor. John has over 35 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur in the communications networking industry. Early in his career, John served as the University of Hawaii's liaison to the Technical Working Group for the ARPANET program, out of which
the Internet was born. His role in the ARPANET program included participating in the design and implementation of the TCP/IP protocols. John founded and led two successful communications networking companies. The first company was Ungermann-Bass, Inc., the networking industry's first Local Area Networking company, which he co-founded in 1979. He served as the company's Chief Technology Officer and helped grow the company to $400 million in revenues and 1,600 employees. John led the company's development efforts through its IPO in 1983, and its $260 million sale to Tandem Computers in 1988. John left Ungermann-Bass (Tandem Computers) in 1993 to found his second company, Network Telesystems, Inc., a self-funded internet infrastructure software company, where he served as Chairman and CEO. The company supplied Internet Protocol software to ISPs, carriers and enterprise customers. NTS was acquired by Efficient Networks in 2000, which itself was acquired by Siemens in 2001.
