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Marc Bensadoun

Investor

Seed-stage Investor and Advisor; Strategy Council at UC Berkeley Skydeck

Berkeley, California, United States

About

Marc Bensadoun is a seed-stage investor and serves as Advisory Board Co-Chair at UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science. He holds a BA in Physics from Cornell and a Ph.D. in experimental astrophysics from UC Berkeley, where he studied under 2006 Nobel Laureate George Smoot. He founded Newfield Wireless, which provided mobile network operators with modeling and optimization tools and later an enterprise big-data platform for mobile geoanalytics, and sold the company in 2013.

Experience

  1. UC Berkeley College of Letters & ScienceAdvisory Board Co-Chaircurrent2019 — present
  2. Lawrence Hall of Science, UC BerkeleyAdvisory Council Membercurrent2019 — presentBerekeley
  3. SquashDrive, Inc.Board Membercurrent2019 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  4. Berkeley SkyDeckStrategy Council, Key Advisorcurrent2016 — present
  5. IndependentSeed-stage investor and advisorcurrent2015 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  6. Newfield Wireless, a Tektronix Communications CompanyFounder & CEO Newfield Wireless2014 — 2015Berkeley, California
  7. Newfield WirelessFounder & CEO1995 — 2013Berkeley, California
  8. Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryPost Doctoral Research Scientist1992 — 1994Berkeley, California
  9. Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryGraduate Student Research Assistant1986 — 1991Berkeley, California

Education

  1. University of California, BerkeleyPh.D., Astrophysics1983 — 1991
  2. Cornell UniversityB.A., Physics1980 — 1983

Colleagues at UC Berkeley Skydeck

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
EECS Professor (Strategy Council) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Alec Opdyke
Business Development Manager at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Aleksander Kuczek
Ambassador, EMEA at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Allen Yang
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Executive Director, FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Amy E. Herr, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering; Faculty Director, Bakar BioEnginuity Hub (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Anca Dragan
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Director, Interact Lab (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Armando Fox
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Balu Masti
Ambassador, India at UC Berkeley Skydeck

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