Working at USVP combines Mamoon Hamid's three passions: technology, people and building businesses.
Mamoon joined USVP in 2005 and became a Principal in 2008. He has 11 years of experience building and investing in high growth
technology businesses. His investment interests lie in IT and Cleantech areas. Mamoon led USVP's investments in box.net, and
serves on the company's Board of Directors. He is actively involved with USVP portfolio companies: Optichron, Supplyframe and
Zannel. He is also an advisor to Yelp.
Prior to joining USVP, Mamoon spent seven years at Xilinx (XLNX) in various marketing management and engineering roles. He was
responsible for defining and implementing sales and marketing strategies that grew the company's consumer electronics and
automotive market segment revenues five-fold to $100 million in a span of three years. As a System Architect at Xilinx, Mamoon
was responsible for evangelizing the role of Xilinx technology in emerging markets and prior to that, as an applications engineer,
he designed performance and cost optimized FPGAs which led to key design wins for the company. Previously, Mamoon has also worked
for Deutsche Bank.
Mamoon holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (graduated at age 19), an MS in Management Science &
Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
A native of Pakistan, Mamoon grew up in Frankfurt, Germany, where he developed his love for playing, watching and coaching
soccer. One day he hopes his team Eintracht Frankfurt will win the Champion's League. Mamoon is multi-lingual in German, Urdu
and Hindi.
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