Primary Job Title Board Member Primary Organization 
Network Photonics
Location Dallas, Texas, United States Regions Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Southern US Gender Male
Investor Type
Neal has been a Venture Partner at TDF since 2005. From December 1999 to October 2003, Neal served as the Managing General Partner of Spectrum Equity Investors, L.P., a venture capital firm investing exclusively in the communications industry.
Neal was a co-founder of AT&T Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of AT&T Corporation, and
has served as a General Partner since January 1993. From May 1989 to January 1993, Neal was a partner of New Enterprise Associates.
Prior to this, he was an investment professional with Crosspoint Venture Partners and was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories. Neal has been involved in financing many communications companies, including Juniper Networks, VeriSign, Covad Communications, Ascend Communications, Software.com, TUT Systems, and Netro.
Neal holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
