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Mr. Collins serves as a business advisor to Genesis Bioventures. Mr. Collins started his career at Intel Corporation and quickly became a lead sales person on the IBM account, helping establish the Intel-IBM relationship and carrying the #2 quota in the company. He then became a key executive for International Rectifier (IR), ramping the company from $60M to over $700M. Mr. Collins was instrumental in taking IR’s power MOS technology from the early adopter phase to global market leadership in multiple market segments. Among other roles, he ran IR’s largest business, taking it from $100M to $400M, and headed up global sales and marketing. Mr. Collins subsequently joined the Tech Coast Angels, a dominant source of angel funding and guidance in Southern California. Mr. Collins became vice president of Tech Coast Angels Los Angeles in 2003 and president in 2004 and 2005. In 2003, Mr. Collins also co-founded Publex Ventures, a firm focused on creating superior returns for micro and small cap public companies. Publex was sold to MCC Global in 2005 and Mr. Collins remains as an advisor. Mr. Collins serves in multiple director and advisory roles and is currently co-developing Starboard Venture Partners, a fund that will focus on seed to early stage private equity investments in Southern California. Mr. Collins is a frequent industry panelist and has been a guest lecturer at Caltech, USC, UCLA and LARTA. Mr. Collins received his BSEE degree from Clarkson University. | 