Paul Weinstein

Paul Weinstein is a founding General Partner with Azure Capital Partners where he specializes in communications infrastructure technologies. In addition to NeoNova, Paul represents Azure on the boards of directors of Broadlight and Fonality. Previously Paul represented Azure on the boards of Vapps (acquired by Citrix) and World Wide Packets (acquired by Ciena).

Prior to Azure, he was a managing director and communications equipment analyst covering the Data Communications and Network Equipment sectors at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in San Francisco. He also held similar positions with Deutsche Bank Securities in San Francisco and with Paine Webber in New York and San Francisco. Paul also was a Senior Vice President and equity research analyst at Kidder Peabody in New York and Boston, where he was responsible for the Data Communications and Data Storage sectors and was a top-ranked analyst in the Institutional Investor and Greenwich Associates surveys four straight years (1995-1999).

Paul has provided strategic and investment advice on numerous communications equipment and data networking companies. Notable firms include: 3Com, Alantec Networks (acquired by Fore Systems), Aspect Telecommunications, Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel), Broadcom, Cabletron, CacheFlow (name changed to Blue Coat), Chipcom (acquired by 3Com), Cisco, Conner Peripherals (acquired by Seagate), Efficient Networks (acquired by Siemens), EMC Corporation, Fore Systems (acquired by GEC), Juniper, Komag Corporation, Latitude Communications (acquired by Cisco), Maxtor Corporation, MMC Networks (acquired by AMCC), Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel), Nortel Networks, Packet Engines (acquired by Alcatel), Quantum Corporation, Read-Rite Corporation, Seagate, SynOptics, WellFleet (acquired by SynOptics) and Xylan (acquired by Alcatel).

Paul received his BS degree in Finance from Babson College and is a certified member of Chartered Financial Analysts.