An Investor, Advisor & Board Member, Deepak is a strategic thinker with global marketing and investment experience in startups across the technology sector - semiconductors, systems, software, wireless, and internet

Deepak Natarajan is a technology industry veteran whose career spans 35 years as a venture capitalist, startup executive, and as a global marketing and sales executive at pioneering companies across the technology spectrum - semiconductors, systems, wireless, software, and internet services. For 8 years, Mr. Natarajan ran Intel Capital's SEA and ANZ operations from Singapore, and served on the boards of 10 Intel Capital portfolio companies. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Natarajan spent 27 years in Silicon Valley and established an excellent track record as a venture capitalist (Redwood Ventures, Storm Ventures), startup executive (Seeker Software and Roamware), and as a global marketing and sales executive (Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, and Autodesk).

During the past decade in his role as an investor and board member, Deepak found great professional and personal satisfaction from coaching and helping entrepreneurs and executives achieve their leadership potential. As an Adjunct Professor at INSEAD, he teaches courses on Corporate Entrepreneurship ("Intrapreneurship"), and New Business Ventures. In addition, as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR), he helps MBA students refine their startup ideas and business plans and is particularly effective in inspiring people to think out-of-the-box, and providing them with decision frameworks that will help them find the paths that will best fulfil their professional and personal goals.

Mr. Natarajan holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business (Berkeley), a Masters in Mechanical Engineering (U. of California, Berkeley), and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (U. of Washington, Seattle).

Deepak is engaged by international corporations to present to, moderate and chair forums, management meetings, strategy meetings and at business conferences on:

• Embracing corporate entrepreneurship as a competitive edge
• Corporate growth through innovation
• Emerging market investments in technology
• Assessing new investments and opportunities in communications and telecoms
• Reviewing investments in local businesses and evaluating their growth potential
• Determining market potential for investments

"Deepak Natarajan's keynote presentation on 'Intrapreneurship and Innovation Management' was very well received by the attendees and some of his novel insights and methods have now been implemented at the newly independent Alcon."
Raj Narayanan, Region President / Janet Kettels, Head of Communications, Asia, Alcon

"Deepak Natarajan was a keynote speaker at an INSEAD executive education program on Innovation Management for a large Japanese conglomerate. His discussion on the impact of various technologies on the conglomerate's businesses, and the business model innovations that the company could adopt to take advantage of these 'disruptions' were very insightful and well received by the executives."
Professor Jay Kim, INSEAD