Jeffrey Weiss

Jeffrey Weiss is an active seed-level venture investor and member of the CEVG, a member of the investment committee of the Prime Coalition, a board observer at Voltserver Inc. (East Greenwich, RI), Solantro Semiconductor (Ottawa, Ontario CA) and Virsec Systems (Santa Clara, CA). He assists new companies in building their management teams, identifying additional private and venture capital resources, and refining their business strategy. His current focus is on clean energy startups.

Mr. Weiss has been a founder of and held various technical and management roles in a number of hardware and communications companies. Mr. Weiss was VP Engineering of Digital LightCircuits, which researched photonic switching devices at Brown University, co-founder and CTO of Omnia Communications (acquired by Ciena), and later served as VP of Systems Architecture for Ciena. He also co-founded Magnalink Communications (acquired by Telco Systems) and served as VP of technology for Telco Systems. He has been involved in engineering or management roles at a variety of other companies, including Motorola (Codex Corporation), Sphere Technology, Cryptall Communications, and IBM’s TJ Watson Research Laboratory.

Mr. Weiss has been issued a number of patents pertaining to data encryption, data compression, switching systems, photonic devices, and parallel computer processing. Mr. Weiss received a B.S.E.E. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S.E.E from Columbia University. He was elected and served for four years on Lincoln RI’s public School Committee (two years as its chairman). Mr. Weiss previously served as a member of the Curriculum Advisory Committee for Brown University’s Computer Engineering program, as an MIT Educational Counselor, and a member of the finance committee for Northern Rhode Island Community Services.