| University of Colorado, Ph.D. | |
| Electrical Engineering |
Jiong Ma has more than 10 years of research, operating and venture capital experience in the technology industry. Prior to joining Braemar, she was with 3i, a global private equity firm with $11B in assets. At 3i, Jiong was responsible for investment in the information technology and cleantech sectors. Prior to 3i, Jiong held several senior positions at Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs. Her responsibilities included lead roles in product portfolio strategy, new product launches for Optical and Data Networking, and research and product development, where she led projects in defining product features, system architecture, network design and operations. Jiong was also a founding team member of Onetta, a fiber networks start-up company which was backed by venture capital firms Sequoia and Matrix. Earlier, Jiong worked as a member of Nortel Networks’ technical staff.
Jiong received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, and a BS in Physics from Lanzhou University, China. She is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program. Jiong has published or co-authored 15 technical papers, and holds one U.S. patent.
