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Anil Khatod is a managing director at Argonaut Private Equity, a diversified global venture capital and private equity fund with more than $3.5 billion under management.

Anil works closely with entrepreneurs using his extensive operational experience to build industry leading companies in sectors including emerging technology, life sciences, alternative energy, financial services and consumer goods. He sits on the boards of nine companies in the US, Israel and India.

In 1980, Anil co-founded a venture backed liquid crystal display company based in Sunnyvale, California which was acquired in 1982. He subsequently joined Nortel Networks where he served in various senior executive roles including VP of Marketing & Sales, VP of Operations, Division President of Optical Networks, Group President of Internet Solutions and Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer of the company. Anil is widely recognized as the driver of Nortel’s success in the Optical business, where he led the business and operations to a record ten-fold growth in four years reaching to $10 billion in revenue.

Anil led or participated in more than a dozen acquisitions at Nortel including Alteon Web Systems and Shasta Networks.

He was also responsible for the corporate venture fund. 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 has an undergraduate 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.