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Vijay Sondhi
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Vijay joined Allianz Venture Partners as a Managing Director
in 2002. AVP is a €300m venture capital fund investing
primarily in infrastructure software and financial services
technology. Vijay has spent over 12 years in Europe working
with startups and high-tech companies in numerous positions,
including software engineer, product manager, sales/marketing
executive, CFO and co-CEO. He started his high-tech career
working for Munich-based startup Fidelio Software GmbH in
1989, where he later became CFO and assisted in selling the
company in a trade sale. At that point the company had over
450 employees and revenues in excess of €45 million.
He also worked at SAP AG as a strategic project consultant
reporting directly to one of the founders. His most recent
executive position was at IXOS Software AG where he started
in 1997 as CFO and executed the first dual listing of a German
company on both NASDAQ and Neuer Markt. He left IXOS in July
2000, at which time the company had 1,000 employees and revenues
of over €100 million. Vijay served as a strategic advisor
at Warburg Pincus in Munich during 2000-2001, advising on
information technology venture capital investments throughout
Europe.
Vijay received an MBA from Columbia University, New York
and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver.
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