OPEN GLOBAL CHAI AND GUP SHUP – NAEEM ZAFAR

Speakers for this event

• Naeem Zafar

  Naeem Zafar

  Managing Director, Concordia Ventures

  Naeem Zafar is a serial entrepreneur. Naeem has been advisor to and invested in over 20 companies (Luminar IPO in 2020) Electriphi bought by Ford in 2021) After graduating from Brown University with a degree in EE, Naeem moved to SV to join Quickturn (world’s first emulation system for chip design verification), IPO in 1994 & acquired by Cadence. Spent 10 years in marketing roles before becoming CEO at Veridicom, a pioneer in silicon fingerprint sensors (acquired by Apple). Naeem co-founded Bitzer Mobile enterprise security company acquired by Oracle. Authored five books and teaches at UC Berkeley & Northeastern University.

  Managing Director, Concordia Ventures