Anil Khatod is Managing Director of Argonaut Private Equity, a global venture capital and buyout firm dedicated to financing and growing emerging market leaders. Argonaut has more than $5 billion under management. In 1980, Anil co-founded a venture capital backed liquid crystal display company in Sunnyvale, California which was acquired in 1982. He subsequently joined Nortel Networks where in 1990’s during the rapid growth phase of the company he led several business groups including being President of Optical Networks, Wireless Networks and Data business groups.
Anil also served as Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer of the company managing several global functions including product management, network solutions groups, corporate marketing & strategy, government relations and M&A. In this role, Anil led or participated in more than a dozen acquisitions including Alteon Web Systems and Shasta Networks. He was also directly responsible for the corporate venture fund which included investments in companies such as Research in Motion and Juniper Networks. In 2001, Anil joined Atlas Venture as a venture partner and just prior to joining Argonaut, Anil was the CEO of AirDefense (acquired by Motorola), a market leader in wireless network security with more than 800 enterprise customers globally.
Anil currently serves on the boards of OmniGuide Inc., Achronix Semiconductor, Memjet Technology, Siklu Networks, ZikBit Semiconductor, Koutons Retail India Ltd, VKL Spices, Midas Telecom Technologies, Argonaut and VentureEast in the US, Israel, India and Australia. Anil has a bachelor and masters degree in business administration from the University of Rajasthan, India and he is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

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