Mike Tamaru
Managing Partner

I have led teams at companies in the Consumer and Enterprise technology segments.   These include crowd-funded and seed-funded startups, growth companies that include Jawbone and Tonal, and multinationals such as Cisco Systems and Philips Electronics   

 

I help these companies with building infrastructure to scale for global growth, raising equity and debt, driving M&A activity, managing business planning, supporting implementation of supply chains and contract manufacturing relationships, implementing go-to-market plans, implementing G&A systems and processes, and  acquisition integration.     

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My clients include scale-ups and turnarounds in the Wearable Tech, Digital Imaging, Robotics, IoT and Connected Home segments, as well as, strategic acquirers, venture funds and other investors in these segments.  Across my career in high technology, I've been employed by or consulted to over 30 tech companies, most of them in the connected hardware space.   As a result, I have exceptionally broad and deep domain expertise in consumer electronics and connected hardware, which places me among a handful of experts in the Silicon Valley.

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I received my Bachelor degree from UC Berkeley, an MBA from the University of Chicago and I hold the CPA certification (inactive status).