 Arati
Prabhakar joined U.S. Venture Partners in 2001 after 15 years
of working with world-class engineers and scientists across
many fields to brew new technologies. At USVP, her focus is
fabless semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing opportunities.
She serves on the boards of Arradiance, Kilopass, Kleer, Lightspeed
Logic, Pivotal Systems, and SiBeam. She previously served
on the board of Leadis Technology (NASDAQ: LDIS).
Arati
was a program manager and then director of the Microelectronics
Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency from 1986 to 1993. At DARPA, she supported R&D
in company and university labs in semiconductor manufacturing,
imaging, optoelectronics and nanoelectronics. In 1993, President
Clinton appointed Arati Director of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology, where she led the 3,000 person
staff until 1997. Arati then joined Raychem as Senior Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer. She was subsequently
Vice President and then President of Interval Research Corporation.
Arati began her career as a Congressional fellow at the Office
of Technology Assessment.
Arati
serves on advisory committees for Berkeley, Caltech, and UC
Santa Barbara. She is a member of the Science, Technology,
and Economic Policy (STEP) board of the National Research
Council. Arati received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering
from Texas Tech University. She received an M.S. in Electrical
Engineering and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California
Institute of Technology. Arati is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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