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Henry Kressel served for over thirty years as a senior partner and managing director of Warburg Pincus, one of the largest private equity investing firms in the world. He successfully seeded and managed investments throughout their lifetimes in diverse fields of technology ranging from semiconductors to financial services, energy conservation and storage, software and communications equipment and services. He led early investments enabled by the Internet. Many of these listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ and some reached valuations in the billions of dollars. In their entirety, these investments generated many billions of dollars in enterprise value. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he began his career at RCA where he reached the position of Staff Vice President at the RCA Laboratories responsible for research and development of electronic devices. At RCA, he led the development and commercialization of breakthrough devices that today underpin the digital economy. These include transistors, integrated circuits, light emitting devices and detectors. Particularly noteworthy is his work pioneering the first practical semiconductor lasers that today are produced in the many millions annually and enable systems ranging from optical communications to novel medical devices and weapons. He holds 31 patents and has published over 120 technical papers and a textbook on semiconductor lasers. The recipient of important professional awards, including the IEEE Sarnoff Award, he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He was the founder of the IEEE Photonics Society, co-founder of the Journal of Lightwave Technology and is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has extensively lectured at several universities including the University of Colorado, the California Institute of Technology and Columbia University. He served as a Regents Lecturer at the University of California in San Diego and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Yeshiva University. A graduate of Yeshiva College, he earned an M.S. in applied physics from Harvard University, a PhD in material science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from its Wharton Business School. He serves on the board of SRI-International and several corporations and is an advisor to the University of Cambridge venture investment activity.

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Total articles 87

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  DeepSeek's revelation was only a matter of time

  By Henry Kressel

  Feb. 11, 2025

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  DeepSeek's revelation was only a matter of time - Asia Times

  By Henry Kressel

  Feb. 11, 2025

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  From innovation to production of new US defense systems

  By Henry Kressel

  Jan. 24, 2025

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