Kef Kasdin, General Partner

As a general partner of Battelle Ventures and Innovation Valley Partners, Kef focuses on investments in cleantech and communication technologies, working closely on identifying promising technologies, projects and synergies with the National Laboratories that sole limited partner Battelle Memorial Institute manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy around the country.

Kef currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Aldis, Inc.; Ampulse Corp.; Planar Energy; and Rajant Corp. Active in the venture community, she sits on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds and is a coauthor of Inside the Minds: Green Venture Capital (Aspatore Books, Nov. 1, 2009).

Kef has been involved in developing and executing strategy for high-technology companies for more than 20 years, including Sarnoff Corp. and 3Com Corp., where she was the company’s first Executive in Residence, Office of the Chairman.

She became a technology-startup consultant in the late 1990s, a venture capitalist in 2000 and a founding member of the management team forming Battelle Ventures in 2003.

Kef holds a B.S.E degree in operations research from Princeton University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.