Profile
Dr. Morrison co-founded Newbury in January of 1992 and has been involved in the venture capital industry for over 20 years.
At Newbury he was an early investor and board member at Netro (now SR Telecom), Fundtech, Jacada, ViryaNet, Summit Design (now Mentor Graphics), Divio (now ESS Technology), Ultracom (now Terayon), and Scorpio Communications (now 3Com).
Prior to Newbury he was the President of Berkeley International Capital, where he originated and negotiated equity investments in over 20 companies, including Altera Corporation, Cirrus Logic, Quickturn Design Systems, Solomon Design (which merged to form Cadence), and Broderbund Software.
He held several executive positions at Wells Fargo Bank prior to joining Berkeley, including Vice President and Manager of Global Foreign Exchange Trading.
Before joining Wells Fargo, he worked in the headquarters operations research department at AT&T (now Lucent Technologies).
With experience at investing in all development stages, his investment focus at Newbury is in early stage communications and information technologies.
He currently holds board positions at MystiCom, OnWafer, Silverback Systems, Virtio, Zenasis Technologies and is a board observer at Pixim.
He was a Senior Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is an active speaker and advisor of the Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum at University of California's Haas School of Business.
Dr. Morrison holds B.I.E.
and MS degrees from Ohio State University and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.
Former positions of Jay B. Morrison
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Newbury Ventures, Inc.
 Newbury Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Formed in 1992 by Bruce Bauer and Jay Morrison, Newbury Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm located in Redwood Shores, California. | Private Equity Investor | 06/01/2009 |
Pixim, Inc.
 Pixim, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Pixim, Inc. develops chipsets and digital imaging technology for enterprise security cameras. It offers products for financial, retail, industrial, gaming, school/campus, correctional facility, perimeter, airport, port, train, light rail, and bus security applications worldwide. The company was founded by Abbas El Gamal in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | Director/Board Member | 06/01/2009 |
Zenasis Technologies, Inc.
 Zenasis Technologies, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Zenasis Technologies, Inc. provides design optimization technology for standard cell-based designs. The company's products consist of ZenTime, a timing optimization tool, and ZenCell Factory, an automatic standard cell creation tool. Zenasis Technologies was founded by Debashis Bhattacharya and Jayanta Roy in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Director/Board Member | 06/01/2009 |
Andigilog, Inc.
 Andigilog, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Andigilog, Inc. provides analog and mixed-signal semiconductors. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tempe, AZ. | Director/Board Member | 06/01/2009 |
OnWafer Technologies, Inc.
 OnWafer Technologies, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology OnWafer Technologies, Inc. provides novel measurement and control solutions for the semiconductor industry for lithography bakeplate and plasma etch. The company develops semiconductor metrology tools which measure what occurs on the wafer surface during the manufacturing process and provide data to enhance the yield of the manufacturing process. OnWafer Technologies was founded in May, 2000 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA. | Director/Board Member | 02/01/2009 |
Training of Jay B. Morrison
| University of California, Berkeley | Doctorate Degree |
| The Ohio State University | Graduate Degree |
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| Private companies | 10 |
|---|---|
JPV Investors LP
 JPV Investors LP Investment ManagersFinance JPV Investors LP is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. | Finance |
Newbury Ventures, Inc.
Newbury Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Formed in 1992 by Bruce Bauer and Jay Morrison, Newbury Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm located in Redwood Shores, California. | Finance |
Berkeley VC International LLC
 Berkeley VC International LLC Investment ManagersFinance Berkeley VC International LLC (Berkeley VC International) is venture capital firm founded in 1977 by Arthur I. Trueger. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Wells Fargo Bank NA
 Wells Fargo Bank NA Major BanksFinance Wells Fargo Bank, NA provides investment advisory services. It offers banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer finance services. The company is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD. | Finance |
AT&T Corp. /Old/
 AT&T Corp. /Old/ Major TelecommunicationsCommunications AT & T is the global leader in providing local, long distance, Internet, and transaction-based voice and data services. AT&T provides unparalleled quality and reliability in communications services | Communications |
Pixim, Inc.
Pixim, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Pixim, Inc. develops chipsets and digital imaging technology for enterprise security cameras. It offers products for financial, retail, industrial, gaming, school/campus, correctional facility, perimeter, airport, port, train, light rail, and bus security applications worldwide. The company was founded by Abbas El Gamal in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Silverback Systems, Inc.
 Silverback Systems, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Silverback Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets ethernet network acceleration processors to enable servers, workstations and storage systems to achieve performance. The company's iSNAP architecture optimizes the combination of silicon and software for multi-gigabit to 10 gigabit Ethernet for Application Servers, NAS and SAN storage solutions. The company is headquartered in Campbell, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Zenasis Technologies, Inc.
Zenasis Technologies, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Zenasis Technologies, Inc. provides design optimization technology for standard cell-based designs. The company's products consist of ZenTime, a timing optimization tool, and ZenCell Factory, an automatic standard cell creation tool. Zenasis Technologies was founded by Debashis Bhattacharya and Jayanta Roy in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Commercial Services |
OnWafer Technologies, Inc.
OnWafer Technologies, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology OnWafer Technologies, Inc. provides novel measurement and control solutions for the semiconductor industry for lithography bakeplate and plasma etch. The company develops semiconductor metrology tools which measure what occurs on the wafer surface during the manufacturing process and provide data to enhance the yield of the manufacturing process. OnWafer Technologies was founded in May, 2000 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Andigilog, Inc.
Andigilog, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Andigilog, Inc. provides analog and mixed-signal semiconductors. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tempe, AZ. | Electronic Technology |
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