Ron CaoŁ¬Lightspeed Venture PartnersŁ¬Partner Close Window

Ron Cao is a partner at Lightspeed based in Shanghai, focusing on the firm's investment efforts in China. Ron has over 6 years of venture capital experience and 3 years of operating experience.
Previously, Ron was a Managing Director of KLM Capital, where he focused on investments in the semiconductor and communications sectors. Ron served on the boards or worked closely with the management teams of MetroWave Communications (sold to IPG Photonics), Sharewave (sold to Cirrus Logic), Opulan Technologies, and Global Communications Semiconductor. Prior to KLM, Ron worked at Intel as a technical marketing manager on the launch of the mobile Pentium III processor and as an operations supervisor in the ramp of Intel's 0.25u manufacturing process. Ron received both his B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.