Ullas Naik

Managing Director 

Ullas has been a Managing Director with Globespan Capital Partners since the firm's inception. He is based in Palo Alto where he leads Globespan's Cleantech investment practice and also focuses on investments in Internet/Enterprise Infrastructure companies. Ullas is passionate about identifying future technology trends and partnering with entrepreneurs to build significant sustainable value within those trends. His experience as an entrepreneur and as an investor has taught him that working with strong teams and adapting intelligently to change is the only way to create and sustain long term business value.

Ullas serves on the boards of CaliSolar, Certeon, Nantero, Optaros, Solar Power Partners and ZeaChem. He is an observer on the the boards of Coskata and GlassHouse Technologies. He is also actively involved in Globespan's invesment in Ampulse.  Previously, he led Globespan's investments in Advent Solar (acquired by Applied Materials),  BladeLogic (NASDAQ:BLOG; acquired by BMC Software), Millennial Net (acquired by Festo), Pirus Networks (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Revivio (acquired by Symantec Corp). 

Prior to Globespan, Ullas served as Managing Director of JAFCO Ventures in the Boston office. Before that, he served as a Senior Vice President in the Technology Research Group at First Albany, where he was named a "Wall Street All-Star" by Fortune Magazine and recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top technology analysts in the country. 

At First Albany, he led the public financings of companies, including IDT Corp. (IDTC), Critical Path (CPTH), Forrester Research (FORR), Mainspring (MSPR, then acquired by IBM), NaviSite (NAVI), and USWeb (USWB, then acquired by MarchFirst). While at First Albany, Ullas was an active angel investor in leading technology companies, including Arbinet (ARBX), Critical Path (CPTH), InterTrust (ITRU), iRobot (IRBT) and others. Prior to First Albany, Ullas started his career as an entrepreneur as the founder and operator of a specialty chemicals trading company in India.

Ullas earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Bombay University in India and an MBA from Bentley College. Ullas lives in Palo Alto with his wife and two daughters.