Howard Lee

Howard has more than twenty-one years of experience in venture capital and private equity investing in Silicon Valley, and more than a decade of experience in research, development, and marketing in emerging and established technology companies and research institutions. His investments have spanned venture capital, venture capital and private equity funds, and venture secondary. Howard brings extensive primary and direct secondary venture investment experience and networks in cybersecurity and IT infrastructure to provide trusted value to entrepreneurs and founders as they manage and build their companies.

Most recently, Howard is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Founders Equity Partners (FEP), a $94 million venture secondary fund focused on the cybersecurity sector. Prior to FEP, he was Co-Head for US Private Equity at CDIB Capital, the private equity arm of CDIB, the largest industrial bank in Taiwan. Prior to CDIB Capital, Howard was a General Partner at Crystal Ventures, a venture capital firm that focused on early-stage infrastructure and enabling technology companies in both the US and Asia. Howard was also a Vice President of the global venture capital firm Crimson Ventures. Prior to Crimson, he was Vice President and Co-Founder of Volendam Capital Advisors, a venture fund that invests in emerging growth high technology companies in the US and Europe. Howard has held management positions in product management and marketing at Applied Materials and has worked as a research investigator in optoelectronics and semiconductor materials at the US Army Research Labs. He has also held engineering positions at IBM and Unisys.

He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the San Jose Police and Fire Retirement Plan and as an advisor and mentor to several Silicon Valley organizations including the Entrepreneurship course at the University of California at Berkeley.

Howard holds a BS (Highest Honors) in Electrical Engineering, a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Electro-Optics from Cornell University, and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.