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Esfandiar heads INVESCO Private Capital�s office in Palo Alto, California. His focus is technology investments. Since joining the group in 1998, he has led INVESCO�s investments in ONI Systems, Endwave, Fastparts, Integrated MicroMachines and Sigmatel. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Endwave (now public), Integrated MicroMachines and Fastparts. Esfandiar began his career in 1982 as a member of the AT&T�s Technical Staff in Bell Labs�s semiconductor devices area. He later joined the CFO Group at Corporate Headquarters, helping to integrate the MicroElectronics Division�s business plan into the total AT&T business plan. In 1987, as CFO and Director of Operations, he co-founded a startup called Pixel Machines, a hardware plus software company in the image processing and 3D graphics business. Esfandiar received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the UCLA School of Engineering in 1982. He received a M.S. in Operations Research from the University of North Carolina in 1976 and a B.A. in Mathematics from Berea College (Kentucky) in 1974. | 