Jacques F. Vallee
serves as a General Partner of Euro-America, a Silicon Valley group that
invests in North America and Europe, primarily in high-technology. He
was born in France, where he received a B.S. in mathematics at the
Sorbonne and an M.S. in astrophysics at Lille University. Coming to the
U.S. as an astronomer at the University of Texas, where he co-developed
the first computer-based map of Mars for NASA, Jacques later moved to
Northwestern University where he received
his
Ph.D. in computer science. He went on to work at SRI International and
the Institute for the Future, where he directed the project to build the
world's first network-based conferencing system as a Principal
Investigator on Arpanet, the prototype for the Internet.
A venture capitalist with
Euro-America since 1987, Jacques Vallee has served as an
early-stage investor and director of many companies including SangStat
Medical, a biotechnology firm based in Menlo Park, California and
Nantes, France; Accuray, a medical device company specialized in robotic
surgery; Ixys, a power semiconductor firm; and Ubique, Inc., a web
teleconferencing company (acquired by AOL).
Further Information:
Note: The
distinguished Canadian astronomer named Jacques P. Vallee is not
related to the above information. He can be reached at:
www.ursi.ca/vallee/.
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