BIO
Amer is a successful entrepreneur, business leader and early-stage angel investor in Silicon Valley. Amer started his career in the valley in 1999 as a VPN product manager at SonicWall (SNWL). Amer joined Cavium (CAVM) as an early employee in 2001. During his 13 years at Cavium, he grew from product management to VP corporate and business development, reporting to the CEO. During Amer's tenure as VP of Corp. Dev. at Cavium he evaluated hundreds of deals. He completed deals ranging from asset purchases, cross border acquisitions, and a spin-in like deal that was covered in SDX central.
Inspired by family healthcare challenges Amer left Cavium to co-found Doctella, a remote patient monitoring company that was acquired by Masimo (MASI) in 2018. Amer's operational expertise spans across general business, sales and engineering team management, ecosystem development, M&A, deal structures and early-stage investments. He has 7 patents in areas of digital security and processing.
As an investor, Amer has privately funded 15+ companies. Notable exits include Bitzer Mobile where he incubated the company and was Chairman of the board. Bitzer was acquired by Oracle in 2013. Amer was an angel investor and advisor in Flutter. Flutter was acquired in 2013 by Google. Amer invested in Organ-i that was acquired by Immucor in 2014. Amer incubated and invested in Altia Systems that was acquired by GN Audio (Jabre) in 2019. Amer's active early-stage investments include MatterNet, Matician, Excitem, DrBeen, and Yobi.
Amer with his wife Munira operate two non-profits related to congenital conditions of their children. Pehla Qadam focuses on eliminating untreated clubfoot in Pakistan and the world (www.pehlaqadam.org). Growing Stronger focuses on improving the quality of medical care for little people (www.growingstronger.org). Amer has an MS in Numerical Simulation and an MBA from U of IL at Urbana Champaign.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amerhaider/
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Inspired by family healthcare challenges Amer left Cavium to co-found Doctella, a remote patient monitoring company that was acquired by Masimo (MASI) in 2018. Amer's operational expertise spans across general business, sales and engineering team management, ecosystem development, M&A, deal structures and early-stage investments. He has 7 patents in areas of digital security and processing.
As an investor, Amer has privately funded 15+ companies. Notable exits include Bitzer Mobile where he incubated the company and was Chairman of the board. Bitzer was acquired by Oracle in 2013. Amer was an angel investor and advisor in Flutter. Flutter was acquired in 2013 by Google. Amer invested in Organ-i that was acquired by Immucor in 2014. Amer incubated and invested in Altia Systems that was acquired by GN Audio (Jabre) in 2019. Amer's active early-stage investments include MatterNet, Matician, Excitem, DrBeen, and Yobi.
Amer with his wife Munira operate two non-profits related to congenital conditions of their children. Pehla Qadam focuses on eliminating untreated clubfoot in Pakistan and the world (www.pehlaqadam.org). Growing Stronger focuses on improving the quality of medical care for little people (www.growingstronger.org). Amer has an MS in Numerical Simulation and an MBA from U of IL at Urbana Champaign.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amerhaider/
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