Aldo Franciscolo
Aldo joined Intel Capital in 2005 to support the mobility investment sector, having a significant role in the deal team for Intel’s Clearwire investment amongst other WiMax engagements.
Prior to that, Aldo was involved in strategy & investment evaluation for the Mobility brands platform, as well as managing benchmarking, metrics and ROI initiatives for the Corporate Marketing Group at Intel.
Prior to Intel, Aldo worked in banking and capital markets in Latin America, as well as writing and evaluating business plans for the IFC in Peru, Romania and South Africa. He also co-founded an ISP company in Latin America, managing it through an exit two years later and has since remained an active entrepreneur.
Aldo holds an MBA from The Wharton School of Business and an Industrial Engineering degree from the Universidad de Lima-Peru.
About Intel Capital: Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing and cleantech. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$9.8 billion in over 1,100 companies in 48 countries. In that timeframe, 189 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 258 were acquired or participated in a merger. In 2010, Intel Capital invested US$327 million in 119 investments with approximately 44 percent of funds invested outside the U.S. and Canada.
About Intel Capital’s Mobility Investment Sector: Investment professionals in the mobility sector are responsible for investing in technologies to deliver the next generation platform elements of notebooks, netbooks, and mobile Internet devices. All aspects of wireless communications, with emphasis on infrastructure, equipment, spectrum, and operators worldwide for WiMAX enabling the mobile Internet are key to these advancements. They focus on promoting an applications and content framework to support next generation mobile platforms that deliver a compelling user experience. Advancing the development of “system-on-a-chip” and hardware platform capabilities across a broad range of categories is a key investment thesis.