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Rahul joined Pacesetter Capital in January 2001 and has led over a dozen investments for Pacesetter Capital. He heads the Firms technology venture investing leads private equity deals in the specialty services sector. Rahul presently serves as a director or observer on the boards of Metrikus, Force10 Networks, Nayna Networks (OTCBB: NAYN.OB), White Rock Networks, Chelsio, Erlang, Sonics, Sychip, Onsite Design, E-Z Shipper and Widedevine. His previous investments at Pacesetter include Volterra (Nasdaq: VLTR), Gain (Nasdaq: SMSC), SOISI (Nasdaq: TXC), Silicon Bridge (TW:3051), Atoga (Nasdaq: ARRS), and ipGen (Axes Tech). Previously, he was Vice President of Investments at Doublespace LLC, an early stage investment firm that invested in media and telecommunications ventures in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to Doublespace, Rahul was one of the founding members of Wit Capital's (now Soundview Technology Group - Nasdaq: SNDV) investment banking group through the firm's initial public offering in 1999 and served as Vice President of Investment Banking.Previously, Rahul has held engineering positions at Daat Research and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India. Rahul is involved with several entrepreneurial and industry organizations such as TiE, CiE, IEEE, SVMG, AeA, and is a frequent speaker at several conferences on entrepreneurship and venture capital. Rahul holds an MEM (a joint business degree) and an MS from Dartmouth College, a BS degree from Government College of Engineering Pune, India. | 