David Nazarian, Managing Member
Mr. Nazarian is the founding member of Smart Technology Ventures, having successfully completed two family venture funds before founding Smart Technology Ventures III.  He is a successful entrepreneur who has funded and built many technology companies and has nearly 20 years of operational and investment experience in the telecommunications and aerospace industries.

Mr. Nazarian was a major investor in Omninet, a company that provided two-way messaging services via satellite for  mobile  users,  when it  merged  with Qualcomm in 1988.  The Nazarian family remains a large shareholder in Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM).  Mr. Nazarian serves on the boards of directors for FutureTrade Technologies, Lucix, and Allard Industries.  He is a member of the Board of Governors and the Investment Committee for both Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the UCLA Foundation.  He received his MBA from the University of Southern California.