During his 15-year entrepreneurial career in the high-tech industry,
Fahri repeatedly demonstrated his savvy in conceiving compelling value
propositions and building high-tech organizations to successfully
execute aggressive business plans. Having joined Sigma Partners in
2006, Fahri applies his expertise by identifying strong entrepreneurs
with good ideas, then funding and helping build market-leading
companies. Fahri’s
entrepreneurial career in...
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During his 15-year entrepreneurial career in the high-tech industry,
Fahri repeatedly demonstrated his savvy in conceiving compelling value
propositions and building high-tech organizations to successfully
execute aggressive business plans. Having joined Sigma Partners in
2006, Fahri applies his expertise by identifying strong entrepreneurs
with good ideas, then funding and helping build market-leading
companies.
Background
Fahri’s
entrepreneurial career in the communications industry spanned
responsibilities in engineering, product management, marketing, and
executive management. Fahri was the Founder, President, and CEO of
Qtera Corporation. Fahri led Qtera to become the leading provider of
ultra-long-haul photonic networking solutions for the Optical Internet.
Nortel Networks acquired the company for $3.25 billion in stock, and
Fahri continued to lead Qtera as President of the wholly-owned
subsidiary until 2001. Before founding Qtera, Fahri was a member of the
executive team at Siemens where he helped establish and manage the
company's Optical Networks business unit in North America, which was
later spun-off as Optisphere Networks. Prior to joining Siemens, Fahri
led Pirelli's pioneering activities in the optical amplifier and
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) markets, including the
introduction of the first terrestrial WDM system and the first
multi-channel, bi-directional optical amplifiers in North America. The
optical systems division of Pirelli was later acquired by Cisco Systems
for $2.15 billion. Just prior to joining Sigma, Fahri founded Concept
Ventures in 2005 by acquiring a portion of the assets of Applied
Materials Ventures in which he served as Managing Director.
Education
A
native of Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean, Fahri came to the
United States in 1985 on full academic scholarship to the Florida
Institute of Technology, where he earned his B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering. Fahri holds five patents in the field of fiber optics and
optical communications.
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