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Pini has over 20 years experience in building and managing global networking and communications companies in Israel and the US. Prior to joining Alta Berkeley as partner in 2003, Pini held the position of Active Chairman of Provigent, a Broadband Wireless start-up. Prior to Provigent, Pini was on the founding team of Chiaro Networks, and spent close to four years with the company as VP of Marketing and Business Development. Prior to Chiaro, Pini was one of the early employees and the first Director of Marketing at Broadcom Corporation in Irvine, California. In this role he was initially responsible for the networking business, and later was responsible for initiating the Broadcom involvement in DSL. Having gone public in 1998, Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM) remains one of the most successful technology companies of the last decade. Pini spent the first 10 years of his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, designing and later marketing the Digital networking and storage chips. In this capacity he successfully lead the transition of the communications group from a captive supplier to a merchant semiconductor vendor. Pini received his BS Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1985. | 