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Frank Levinson
Frank H. Levinson, Ph.D., is the founder and managing director of Small World Group, an early stage venture capital group and incubator that operates out of Singapore and the USA. From 1988 through 2008, he was founder and served as CTO and chairman of Finisar Corporation, today the world’s largest optical communications subsystems company. Frank is an active venture investor and serves on multiple private and public company boards with focus in clean tech, optical systems and novel materials; he also a partner with Phoenix Venture Partners and he is currently an active Social Enterprise investor.
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