Jack joined Symwave in 2004 as the first US employee and was instrumental in the early development and implementation of the company’s venture financing and cross-border sales and marketing strategies. The company raised over $40M in venture capital, grew to over 70 employees and shipped multiple high-performance analog IC product lines to the leading Greater Chinese and US consumer electronics and computer manufacturers before its sale to SMSC Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSC) in 2010.

Previous to Symwave, Mr. Bell was an Associate with Mission Ventures, a $500M early- and mid-stage venture capital fund where he managed direct equity investments and provided marketing and business development support to Mission’s semiconductor, hardware systems and related software and services portfolio companies.

Prior to Mission Ventures, Jack was an Equity Analyst with UBS PaineWebber in New York with UBS’ Telecommunications Equipment Group, providing equity coverage and M&A advisory to public and private companies in the telecommunications systems, sub-systems and related semiconductor markets.

Jack began his career as an Analyst with the Global Partner Ventures, a $100M Moscow, Russia-based private equity fund investing in recently privatized telecommunications, manufacturing, energy and media companies in the former Soviet bloc countries where Jack advised companies leading up to, during and after the Russian financial collapse of 1998. Jack graduated with honors from Colgate University and is conversant in Russian, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese.

Jack holds his SIE, Series 79, 82, 24 and 63 licenses.