Asad Jamal

Overview

Asad Jamal has served as our director since June 2004. Mr. Jamal is co-chairman and managing director of DFJ ePlanet Ventures, a Silicon Valley headquartered technology venture capital firm, with US$640 million under management. DFJ ePlanet Ventures was co-founded by Mr. Jamal, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm and Roderick Thomson, a financier, and focuses on global venture capital opportunities. Mr. Jamal currently heads DFJ ePlanet's teams and offices in Silicon Valley, London, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. Mr. Jamal serves on the board of directors of U.S. technology companies Visto Corporation and Intrapace, Inc. He has previously worked in a senior executive capacity with Hong Kong merchant bank Peregrine Investment Holdings, and as head of interest-rate derivatives trading with Chase Manhattan Bank in London. Mr. Jamal graduated with a B.Sc. (Honors) from the London School of Economics, and is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He is a charter member of entrepreneurship organizations TIE Silicon Valley and OPEN Silicon Valley.