Don Basile is an entrepreneur and high tech investor best known for his work in the fields of technology, healthcare, and telecommunications. Don Basile currently serves as an investor in multiple companies He is a contributing author at

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and

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Education

Basile earned an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 1988 and 1993, respectively.

Career

Basile is an investor in Cumulus Logic, Liqipel, Calient Technologies, RiverMeadow Software, and Sureline Systems. In 2006, Basile became the Chairman of the Board at

Fusion-io Fusion-io, Inc. was a computer hardware and software systems company (acquired by SanDisk Corporation in 2014) based in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, that designed and manufactured products using flash memory technology. The Fusion was marketed ...

and became CEO two years later, where he convinced Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to come on as chief scientist. In his first year as CEO, the company achieved over $10M in sales and earned a Red Herring Global 100 award. After leading Fusion-io through A and B rounds of funding, Basile transitioned to Violin Memory, as their CEO. Basile led Violin to raise over $400m, and announced a strategic partnership with Toshiba Corporation, the inventor of NAND flash. After more than four years of collaboration, Violin terminated Basile. Basile spent nearly four years as vice-president and managing director of Raza Foundries, Inc. (RFI), a broadband networking and communications investment company. Prior to RFI, he served as Director of Operations and Partnerships at Remarq Communities, Inc. formerly known as Supernews, an Internet infrastructure provider that provided cloud services to Excite, eBay, Lycos, Amazon and other internet brands. Basile also held management positions at Netfish Technologies, Inc., a leader in XML ecommerce; Lenfest Communications, a pioneer in the cable television industry; and

UnitedHealth Group UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is an American Multinational corporation, multinational for-profit company specializing in health insurance and health care services based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Selling insurance products under UnitedHealth ...

, a diversified managed health care company, which he helped grow from $560M to $1.2B.

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