LARRY MARSHALL- Managing Director
Southern Cross Ventures
Dr. Larry R Marshall is Managing Director at Southern Cross Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley & Sydney. Previously Managing Director of Arasor which he took public in 2006 (ASX:ARR). Dr Marshall has founded 6 successful companies over the past 20 years, in biotechnology, photonics, and semiconductors; driving 2 to successful IPOs, and 4 high-return trade-sales. He was Chairman of AOC, and of Intersymbol, an Intel company, which was acquired by Finisar (Nasdaq:FNSR). He was CEO of Translucent, optical Silicon, acquired by Silex (ASX:SLX). CEO of Lightbit manufacturing optical processors which merged with Arasor in 2004. He was CEO of Light Solutions where he rolled out the first visible semiconductor lasers and formed Iridex, which went public in 1996 (Nasdaq:IRIX). He ran Technical Programs at Fibertek. He holds 20 patents protecting numerous commercial products, and has over 100 publications and presentations. He received a prestigious Federation Fellowship, chaired Advanced Solid State Photonics, sits on the Advisory Board of Laser Focus World and holds Board positions on Arasor, RIO, Mocana & SXVP. Larry was born in Sydney Australia, and received his BS Honors from Macquarie University (Sydney), and PhD from the Commonwealth Centre of Excellence.
