Carl Ledbetter

Carl Ledbetter — UV Partners
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Carl Ledbetter is a General Partner in the private equity firm UV Partners, which makes high technology investments in computer hardware and software, networking, telecommunications, and life sciences. He has been on the boards of directors of four public and eleven private companies, and is currently serving on the boards of five networking and software companies. From 1999 until 2003 Carl was Senior Vice President, Engineering, Research & Development and Chief Technology Officer for Novell, Inc., where he was responsible Novell's entire product business, all of engineering, and Novell’s business development and venture fund activities.

Prior to Novell, his experience includes roles as president of AT&T’s $3B Consumer Products Division, as corporate vice president and General Manager of Sun Microsystems's PC networking business, as the director of IBM’s Kingston Laboratory, as CEO of ETA Systems, the Control Data Corporation supercomputer subsidiary, and as chairman and chief executive of Hybrid Networks, Inc., an innovator in the wireless broadband industry.

Before joining the computer industry, Carl taught mathematics as an instructor or assistant professor of mathematics at Wellesley College, Arizona State University, Northwestern University, Brandeis University, and Clark University, and was academic dean and professor of mathematics at California State University, Sonoma. He also served in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown of California as director of a scientific and public policy agency. He has served a term on the Advisory Committee to the Joint House Senate Committee on Science and Technology for the U.S. Congress, chaired the Governor’s Task Force on the Computer Industry for governors Rudy Perpich and Arne Carlson of Minnesota, and was a member of the East Coast Team of the Computer Bowl. Carl earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Clark University, his master's degree in mathematics from Brandeis University and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Redlands.