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Bret Sewell, Executive in Residence bret@artiman.com Bret is an Executive in Residence at Artiman Ventures. Previously, Bret was President and CEO of Venturi Wireless, a wireless optimization systems company, President and CEO of Kiwi Networks, an early stage wireless broadband systems company, and President of SnapTrack, which created the high precision wireless location based services industry. Bret pioneered SnapTrack's partnerships with DoCoMo, KDDI, Sprint, Verizon, Alltel, Bell Mobility, SK Telecom, KT Freetel, China Unicom and other carriers, as well as wireless equipment manufacturers such as Motorola, Texas Instruments, Samsung, LG, NEC and Alcatel, resulting in worldwide deployment of over 500 million SnapTrack enabled wireless devices and supporting infrastructure. SnapTrack was acquired by Qualcomm for $1 billion. Prior to SnapTrack, Bret founded and served as managing director for the Asia-Pacific divisions of Aspect Telecommunications and Octel Communications. During his tenure at Octel, Bret served as President of Octel's Japanese subsidiary, which developed Octel's largest telco customer worldwide, J-Phone (now Softbank). |
| Education: | Bret holds a BA from Harvard University, an MBA from The Wharton School, and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a graduate fellow of the Lauder Institute of International Management at the University of Pennsylvania and has completed the Executive Program in Strategy and Organization at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. |
| Interests: | Bret is professionally fluent in Japanese, plays and coaches ice hockey, is an amateur architect and home builder, and enjoys mountain biking, skiing, and spending time with his wife and three children. |
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