Kef Kasdin, General Partner

Kef is a General Partner at Battelle Ventures and Innovation Valley Partners, where she focuses primarily on investments in communications and emerging energy technologies. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Aldis, Inc.; Ampulse Corp; Planar Energy Devices, Inc.; and Rajant Corp. She also is an ImageTree Corp. Board observer and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds.

Kef has been involved in developing and executing strategy for high-technology companies for more than 20 years. In the 1990s Kef held a number of positions of increasing importance at 3Com Corporation in Santa Clara, Calif. Among the titles she held at 3Com were: vice president, Marketing, Desktop Products Division; and vice president and general manager of the $1-billion Ethernet Products Division. In the fall of 1998 Kef was named 3Com’s first Executive in Residence, Office of the Chairman, driving key strategic and operational initiatives for the company.

At the close of the decade Kef moved to New Jersey and was a business and marketing consultant to a dozen technology start-ups. One of her key clients was Sarnoff Corporation, where she worked closely with senior executives to identify spinout opportunities and areas for future investment.

Early in her career, Kef was a consultant with Booz, Allen and Hamilton in San Francisco, Calif. She received a B.S.E degree in Operations Research from Princeton University in 1985, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, in 1989.