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Winslow joined Venture Investors in 2006 as a Managing Director of Venture Investors LLC.
He is assuming an active role in the Venture Igniter program in the firm's Information
Technology practice. He has previously served on the Investment Advisory Committee for VIESF III.
Most recently, Winslow worked for the National Science Foundation where he managed the Program
for Small Business Innovations Research. He awarded funding to start-up companies in the fields of
electronics and information science. He is also an adjunct professor in electrical engineering at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to that, Winslow co-founded Aanetcom, a semi-conductor startup company with seed funding from
Cisco Systems where he served as the chief Analog design architect. Aanetcom was the first to develop
CMOS Octal SERDES chips using CMOS technology. In March 2000, Aanetcom was acquired by PMC-Sierra for
$900 million. Earlier in his career, Winslow served as Staff Engineer at IBM's Research Facility
and for AT&T Microelectronics/Lucent Technologies.
He serves as a Director of the University of Wisconsin Foundation, Trustee for WARF, Advisory Board
Member for the University of Wisconsin Astronomy Department, and Trustee for the IEEE History Center.
He also served as a Technical Advisory Board member for Intersymbol Communications, a portfolio company
of VIESF III, prior to its merger with Kodeos Communications Corporation, is Managing Member of Xcelis
Communications, LLC, and is an Advisory Board member for the Maryland Venture Fund.
Winslow earned a Bachelor of Science from Northeastern University, a Master of Science from Iowa State
University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all in electrical engineering. He
has received the inaugural 2002 Wisconsin Distinguished Young Alumni Award and was the 2003 Outstanding
Engineering Alumni Awardee from Northeastern University.
Winslow has been named a Kauffman Fellow. Created by the Kauffman Foundation in partnership with leaders
in the venture capital industry, the Fellows program is a bold experiment designed to educate and train
future venture capitalists and future leaders of high-growth companies.
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