Rami Elghandour

Rami is an Executive in Residence at APVC in Palo Alto, Ca. He supports APVC in evaluating and executing new investments and serves as an advisor to select APVC portfolio companies. Prior to joining APVC, Rami was President and CEO of Nevro where he grew the company from a thirty person start up to nearly one thousand person public company approaching $400M in revenue. Nevro's value increased over 15x and the stock was valued over 300% above IPO pricing during Rami's tenure. In this role, Rami was recognized as a top CEO in the U.S., one of the top CEOs for women and diversity, and is a recipient of the Bill Campbell Award by Watermark, a leading women's organization, for his influence, impact, and advocacy in promoting women and women's issues. Prior to Nevro, Rami was an investor with Johnson and Johnson Development Corporation where he led Nevro's Series B financing, sat on over 10 Boards including Nevro's and worked on strategic initiatives and M&A for J&J.

Rami began his career as a Design Engineer at Advanced Neuromodulation Systems. Rami earned a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Rami serves as a start up advisor, a guest lecturer, and as a judge for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year program.