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Stephanie is a Director at Qualcomm Ventures, based in Sao Paulo, focusing on investments in Latin America, across various domains. She currently serves as a board member for Idwall and board observer for Hilab.

Prior to Qualcomm Ventures, Stephanie’s most recent position was director at Peninsula Partners, PE/VC investment arm of Mr. Abilio Diniz’s family office. During the 8 years at Peninsula, she led and supported deals around education, health and retail, in both private equity and venture capital portfolios. She started her career in strategy consulting at Monitor Group and BCG.

Stephanie Shao Ni Ng

Marienne Caro is currently the Marketing Lead at [Qualcomm Ventures](/org/qualcomm-ventures). Marienne has previously worked as the Head of Marketing for Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, powered by Techstars, and as Marketing Lead at Qualcomm Research. Marienne has extensive experience in marketing and public relations, with a focus on creating thought leadership, market awareness, and positioning their company as a leader and visionary. Marienne has also managed event planning and execution, speakership, tradeshow booths, demos, and marketing collateral. Marienne has developed marketing budgets to meet business objectives and overseen public relations and marketing activities.

Marienne Caro has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in International Business with an Emphasis in Marketing and Latin America from San Diego State University-California State University.

and Julia Harmon - Project Manager reports to Marienne Caro. They work with Carlos Kokron - Vice President & Managing Director, Song Mao - Senior Director, and Hanyang Wang - Director, Business Development. Marienne Caro reports to Quinn Li, SVP & Global Head of [Qualcomm Ventures](/org/qualcomm-ventures).

Marienne Caro

Michelle is a senior investment manager at [Qualcomm Ventures](/org/qualcomm-ventures), based out of Tel Aviv, focusing on investments in Israel and Europe across various domains.

Michelle has more than 10 years of experience in various business roles in high tech companies. Prior to joining [Qualcomm Ventures](/org/qualcomm-ventures) she was head of strategic technology partnerships at Intel Sports, where she drove complex business transactions that significantly impacted the business competitive position. Prior to that she was a program manager at Replay Technologies, a startup focusing on volumetric video creation that was later acquired by Intel, where she fully owned a relationship with a key partner. Michelle had previously worked at [Qualcomm](/org/qualcomm) and was the program manager for Snapdragon™ Development Platforms, focusing on enablement of forward looking technologies.

Michelle holds an MBA from [INSEAD](/org/insead) and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.


Michelle Taycher Nishry

Merav is a Vice President and Managing Director at [Qualcomm Ventures](/org/qualcomm-ventures) and oversees all investments in Europe and in Israel. She currently serves as a board member or observer for [ScyllaDB](/org/scylladb), [TabTale](/org/tabtale), Weka.io, OpenSignal and [Excelero](/org/excelero). Merav also served on the BOD of [Magisto](/org/magisto) (Acquired by [Vimeo](/org/vimeo)), Tapingo (GrubHub) Panoramic Power (Direct Energy) and Corrigon (eBay).

Merav has more than 15 years of high-tech and venture capital experience. Prior to joining [Qualcomm Ventures](/org/qualcomm-ventures), she was a director at Intel Capital; before that, she was a principal at Pitango Venture Capital, Israel’s largest venture capital Firm. During these years, Merav led and was involved in investments including: Forescout (NASDAQ: FCST, acq by [Advent](/org/advent)) , [LiveU](/org/liveu) (Francisco Partners), Convergin (Oracle); Boxee (Samsung). Merav holds a B.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering (cum laude) from the Technion, Israel, and an MBA from [INSEAD](/org/insead), France.

Merav Weinryb

Quinn oversees [Qualcomm](/org/qualcomm)’s $1B global venture investment portfolio of 150+ companies across seven regions. Quinn and his team invest in key areas such as 5G, AI, Automotive, IoT and Networking to help expand [Qualcomm](/org/qualcomm)’s ecosystem and customers. He currently serves as a board member or observer in [AMEC](/org/advanced-micro-fabrication-equipment-inc-china), [Airspan](/org/airspan), [Cohesity](/org/cohesity), [Innovium](/org/innovium), and [RetailNext](/org/retailnext). Quinn has led over a dozen investments with successful exits in [A123 Systems](/org/a123-systems-llc), Eero, InvenSense, Powercloud Systems and [Zoom](/org/zoom).

Prior to joining [Qualcomm](/org/qualcomm) Ventures, Quinn held various roles in the wireless industry. He worked in product management and business development at IBM Systems and Technology Group, and spent several years in [Broadcom](/org/broadcom) and the wireless infrastructure group at Lucent Technologies.

Quinn received his MBA from [Cornell University](/org/cornell-university), and his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.

Quinn Li

Hanyang is a Director at [Qualcomm Ventures](/org/qualcomm-ventures) in Beijing and has been with [Qualcomm](/org/qualcomm) for 19 years. Prior to his current role, he has held positions in product/technology management and marketing/engineer at QCT and QTL. His rich experience covers modem, AP, sensor, AI, infra and IoT. Hanyang has helped develop ecosystems and built strong partnerships in China, as well as driven the commercialization of key technologies, standards, features and products during the 2-3-4-5G transition.

Hanyang holds a Masters in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology and an international MBA from Beijing University & Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.  

Hanyang Wang

Nancy Lu

Chris serves as Legal Counsel for [Qualcomm Ventures](/org/qualcomm-ventures) and Corporate Legal M&A team. Prior to joining [Qualcomm](/org/qualcomm), he was an Associate in the corporate group at Latham & Watkins LLP where he focused on corporate matters, M&A and venture financing transactions.

Chris received a B.A. in History from UC Irvine and a J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

Christopher West

Shannon Gallagher-Bolton

Gaby Pan

Sachin invests in AI and multimedia startups. He led Qualcomm Ventures’ Series A investment in Zoom in 2013, was a Board Observer at Zoom from 2013-2018 and co-led our investment in Owlchemy (creator of the award-winning Job Simulator VR product).

Sachin was most recently a competitive intelligence lead at Facebook in AI and AR/VR. As an entrepreneur, he founded Stario (mobile CRM) and Tapioca Mobile (a TikTok-type service sold to Qualcomm). He has also held product management, developer relations and other roles.

Sachin received his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sachin Deshpande

Song is a Director with Qualcomm Ventures based in China. His focus is on Chinese startups in the mobile health, e-commerce, smart home and enterprise mobile solution sectors. He also runs the QPrize competition for the region and is deeply involved in early stage investments. 

Song co-founded two companies and worked as a strategy investment manager at SK Telecom before joining Qualcomm Ventures. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. 

Song Mao

Adam Schwenker

Tushar is a Senior Director at [Qualcomm Ventures](/org/qualcomm-ventures). His current investment areas are Artificial Intelligence and HardTech. He led the investments for Insyte, Frore, [Humane](/org/humane), [Weights & Biases](/org/weights-biases), and [WellSaid Labs](/org/wellsaid-labs). Given his strong relationships with the Business Units, Tushar is also responsible for value-add initiatives from the startup ecosystem to Qualcomm Business Units.

Tushar Gupta

James Shen

Carlos Kokron

Varsha Tagare

Julia Harmon is a project manager at [Qualcomm Ventures](/org/qualcomm-ventures). Julia has also worked as a facilities associate at USEC INC. and as a marketing/administrative assistant at WASHINGTON EXPRESS.

Julia Harmon has a B.A. in Communication from the [University of Maryland](/org/university-of-maryland), and an Interior Design degree from the Design Institute of San Diego.

Julia Harmon reports to Marienne Caro, Marketing Lead.

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