ESFANDIAR LOHRASBPOUR
Parnter & Managing Director
Invesco

Esfandiar heads INVESCO Private Capital's office in Palo Alto, California. His focus is technology investments. Since joining the group in 1998, he has led INVESCO's investments in ONI Systems, Endwave, Fastparts, Integrated MicroMachines and Sigmatel. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Endwave (now public), Integrated MicroMachines and Fastparts.

Esfandiar began his career in 1982 as a member of the AT&T's Technical Staff in Bell Labs's semiconductor devices area. He later joined the CFO Group at Corporate Headquarters, helping to integrate the MicroElectronics Division's business plan into the total AT&T business plan. In 1987, as CFO and Director of Operations, he co-founded a startup called Pixel Machines, a hardware plus software company in the image processing and 3D graphics business.

Esfandiar later re-joined AT&T Corporate Headquarters as Corporate Development Director to help focus on new growth opportunities, most notably Wireless (through acquisition of McCaw Cellular) and Online Services (through startup of WorldNet).

Esfandiar received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the UCLA School of Engineering in 1982. He received a M.S. in Operations Research from the University of North Carolina in 1976 and a B.A. in Mathematics from Berea College (Kentucky) in 1974.