Sean Dalton is a Managing General Partner at Highland Capital Partners, investing in communications infrastructure and semiconductors. He is a former director of AccessLan Communications (acquired by Advanced Fibre Communications), Altiga Networks (acquired by Cisco), Envoy Networks (acquired by Texas Instruments), Ocular Networks (acquired by Tellabs), Telcobuy.com (merged with World Wide Technology) and Telica (acquired by Lucent). He currently represents Highland on the boards of Casero, CHiL Semiconductor, Covergence, Innovative Silicon, moka5, P.A. Semi, picoChip, QD Vision, Radiospire Networks, Starent Networks (Nasdaq: STAR) and Virtual Iron Software and also actively works with ANDA Networks, Simpler Networks and Tatara Systems. Mr. Dalton has been recognized by the prestigious Forbes Midas List as one of the top venture capitalists in the industry. Prior to joining Highland, Mr. Dalton was a Venture Associate at Fidelity Capital focusing on investments in communications and electronic commerce. Before Fidelity, Sean worked as a Product Manager - Internet Services for GTE where he developed remote access and other network services for ISPs and large business customers. While at GTE, Sean led the nation's first ADSL trial for Internet access. Mr. Dalton holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, an MS in EE from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. |