Howard lee
venture partner
Howard has more than twenty-two years of professional experience in venture capital and private equity investing across both primary and secondary venture investments. Most recently, Howard was a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Founders Equity Partners (FEP), a venture secondary fund focused on the cybersecurity sector. Prior to FEP, he was Co-Head for US Private Equity at CDIB Capital, the private equity arm of CDIB, the largest industrial bank in Taiwan. Prior to CDIB Capital, Howard was a General Partner at Crystal Ventures, a venture capital firm that focused on early-stage infrastructure and enabling technology companies in both the US and Asia. Howard was also a Vice President of the global venture capital firm Crimson Ventures. Prior to Crimson, he was Vice President and Co-Founder of Volendam Capital Advisors, a venture fund that invests in emerging growth high technology companies in the US and Europe. Howard has held management positions in product management and marketing at Applied Materials and has worked as a research investigator in optoelectronics and semiconductor materials at the US Army Research Labs. He has also held engineering positions at IBM and Unisys. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to Architect Partners, a boutique investment bank focused on digital assets.
He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the San Jose Police and Fire Retirement Plan and as an advisor and mentor to several Silicon Valley organizations including the Entrepreneurship course at the University of California at Berkeley. Howard holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Electro-Optics from Cornell University, and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.