Naveen Bewtra
Senior Advisor
Dr. Naveen Bewtra brings to SiVal both international M&A and corporate venture experience. He was responsible for running corporate development teams for multinationals such as HOYA Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) and JDSU. He has a track record of performing successful M&A transactions for public and private targets in both North America as well as in Asia Pacific, totaling in excess of $1B USD. In parallel to M&A activities he was also responsible for management of the corporate venture fund via co-investments alongside tier-1 venture capitalists to identify new technologies and markets. In recent years, Naveen has focused on the penetration into the Cleantech (including PV, Solid State Lighting, and Battery) market by identifying key elements of each ecosystem and surfacing target companies. Prior to moving into the corporate venture space, Naveen was a successful serial entrepreneur having a number of successful exits under his belt as well as having held product management positions at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies. He is a frequent panelist on M&A for organizations such as SEMI, Asian American Manufacturers Association (AAMA) and Korean IT Network (KINCON) and received his Ph.D. in EE (sponsored by Nortel) from the University of Toronto.
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