Former Motorola vice president Mohan Kumar joins Norwest Venture Partners India as executive director

Bangalore: technology venture capital firm Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) today announced that Mohan Kumar has joined NVP India as executive director based  in Bangalore.

Kumar has worked at Motorola and Texas Instruments in senior positions and personally investing in technology start-up companies. Kumar will be based in NVP India's, and will focus on technology investments in India.

As corporate vice president of mobile devices software at Motorola, Kumar was instrumental in creating mobile platform middleware, user interface technology and applications across 3GSM, CDMA & WiFi / WiMax mobile phones. Kumar also helped set up Texas Instruments' business unit in Bangalore.

''Next-generation technologies are beginning to be developed in India and that the early adopters of such technologies will be from the sub-continent,'' said Promod Haque, managing partner at NVP. ''Because of this, NVP India will aggressively hire more senior investment professionals in the coming months, and will continue to invest in promising new businesses to capitalize on this rapid growth. We look forward to Mohan's presence in Bangalore, and we know he will contribute greatly to the growth of NVP India.''