Alok Prasad leads Business Development and Channels at Cambridge Semantics. He brings 25+ years of technology and business experience in building and investing in emerging companies and establishing market facing operations in large corporations. He has been involved with building several early stage ventures from ideation to, in some cases, billion dollar public companies.

He co-founded Beacon Photonics, a venture capital fund with Boston University and Wall Street firm Globalvest. Beacon focused on early stage investing in IT infrastructure and Life Sciences. Some of his early stage investments at Beacon and as an individual investor include: A123 Systems, a battery company (IPO, NSDQ:AONE); Verrillon; Borrealis, acquired by Verilink (NSDQ:VRLK); Airvana, a 3G/EVDO equipment company (IPO, NSDQ:AIRV); FiberGrade; Genoptix (IPO, NSDQ:GXDX); Lumerx; and Ophthonix, among others.

Prior to Beacon, he was a Principal at PRTM, an operations management consulting company, and a Vice President /Partner at COBA-M.I.D., a strategy management consulting company subsequently acquired by Renaissance Worldwide and renamed Adventis.

Alok received his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MS from Auburn University and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

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