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"Prior to investing, the team at Azure takes a highly disciplined and analytical investment approach... post-investment, Azure can be relied upon to provide well informed, practical guidance to management and the board. I view Azure as a key asset - because smart money is so much better than just money."
Andy Vought - Former CEO, Broadlight
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Investment Partners : General Partners
 Paul Ferris, General Partner
Paul Ferris is a founding General Partner with Azure Capital Partners where he specializes in communications and systems technologies. His current active board memberships include Calix Networks, Cyan Optics, Personeta and Phanfare, and he is a board observer at Medsphere. Other representative investments include Innovance Networks and World Wide Packets. Prior successful investments include Com21 (IPO in 1998) and Phone.com (IPO in 1999).
Prior to Azure, Paul worked at several investment banks, including Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was the Global Head of the Communications Investment Banking Group, and at Deutsche Bank Securities and Morgan Stanley, where he focused on communications infrastructure and hardware companies.
Over the course of his career, Paul has provided strategic and investment advice to numerous leading communications infrastructure companies. Notable firms include ADC Telecommunications, Broadcom, Cerent (acquired by Cisco Systems), Com21, Efficient Networks (acquired by Siemens), Lucent Technologies, Next Level Communications, New Focus, Nortel Networks, Packet Engines (acquired by Alcatel), Phone.com, Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), Siemens and Xros (acquired by Nortel Networks).
Paul received his B.A. degrees in Computer Science and English from Amherst College, where he graduated summa cum laude. |
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Investment partners
General Partners
Paul Ferris
Mike Kwatinetz
Cameron Lester
Paul Weinstein
Partners
Ray Carey
Hans Roderich
Venture Partners
Larry Augustin
Venture Advisors
David Limp
Bob Pasker
Associates
Barry Chubrik
J.J. Freitag
Chief Financial Officer
Martin Brusco
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