Charles Chi

Who is Charles Chi?

Charles joined Greylock

in 2000. His area of focus is systems, semi-conductors and related

software for communications, computing and storage for the enterprise,

service provider and consumer markets.

Prior to Greylock Charles held executive positions in the

communications sector that spanned both service providers and equipment

suppliers. He joined Greylock from CIENA Corporation where he was vice

president of marketing. Previously Charles had co-founded and led

marketing at Lightera Networks, Inc., a market defining optical core

switching company acquired by CIENA. Before Lightera he held marketing,

sales engineering and engineering roles at Cisco, StrataCom, ATT

Canada and Bell Canada. During his tenure he developed and launched a

number of new products and services based on new technologies.

Charles represents Greylock on the boards of Aquantia, C2 Appliance, Calista Technologies, Espial, Quorum Systems, SiTime and ZeroG Wireless. Charles' previous investments include Sanera Systems (acquired by McDATA) and Siliquent (acquired by Broadcom).

He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1988 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.