Fred F. Nazem
Nazem and Company and the Transatlantic Venture Fund
Founder & general partner

Mr. Nazem has been an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and corporate turnaround specialist for more than 25 years. He is the founder and Managing Partner of Nazem & Company, an early venture capital firm established in 1976. He also founded two investment management firms, GeoCapital Corporation in the early Eighties and the Explorer Fund that is currently managed by the Nazem Group. Mr. Nazem has started, financed and guided more than 100 companies, including six that have become multibillion-dollar enterprises. As a founder and entrepreneur, he created enterprises such as Cirrus Logic, Inc. (CRUS), Genetix Corporation, iQ NetSolutions, Inc., Aliaswire Incorporated and Munshee, Inc. As venture capitalist he helped to establish companies such as Universal Health Systems (UHS), Republic Health, Inc. (now Tenet Healthcare; TNET) and Apollo Computers (now Hewlett Packard's computer division). As a corporate architect and turnaround specialist, he reorganized a number of enterprises over the years. As Chairman of Oxford Health Plans, Inc., a $6 billion company he originally financed as the lead venture capitalist, he recently led a highly successful turnaround when the company ran into strategic and operational difficulties. His work experience prior to founding Nazem & Company, includes heading the pharmaceutical chemistry laboratories for Matheson, Coleman and Bell, Vice President in Charge of Venture Capital for Irving Trust Company and turning around the fortunes of one of America's leading families. Mr. Nazem has a BS in Biochemistry, a MS in Physical Chemistry, an MBA in finance and has done doctoral work in nuclear physics. Mr. Nazem serves on the Boards of Directors of several public and private companies. Through the Nazem Family Foundation, Mr. Nazem supports the Friends of the Family Academy, a school in Harlem, and the Encyclopaedia Iranica of Columbia University, where he is Vice Chairman. Mr. Nazem's passions are fine arts, sports, music, the stock market and building trend-setting technology companies.