Eileen Tanghal

Eileen Tanghal has been a venture capital investor for almost 20 years. Currently, she is General Partner at Black Opal Ventures. Previously, she was Managing Director at In-Q-Tel, the non-profit strategic investor that accelerates the development and delivery of cutting-edge technologies to the CIA and other U.S. Government agencies.

Before joining IQT, Eileen was Vice President of New Business Ventures at ARM, and General Manager of Applied Materials’ Applied Ventures unit. Before entering the corporate/strategic venture capital world, she worked as a financial VC at two UK-based firms - first at Amadeus Capital Partners and later at Kennet Partners.

Eileen started her career as one of the first engineering team members of a semiconductor consulting and software startup company called PDF Solutions which had a successful IPO in 2002.

Eileen holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degree from M.I.T. and an MBA from the London Business School.