Bio

Berry Cash has been a part of InterWest's IT team in the Dallas office since 1985 and focuses on investments in semiconductors, communications (both wireless and fiber optics) and enterprise software. Cash is a board member of the CIENA Corporation (CIEN), which is publicly held, and Nuventix, which is privately owned. He is also on the boards of the following non-InterWest companies: Argo Group Intl. (AGII), First Acceptance Corporation (FAC), and Silicon Laboratories (SLAB). Cash began his professional career at Texas Instruments in 1964. In 1969, he co-founded Mostek Corporation where he served as a director and the vice president of marketing until the company was sold in 1981. He was a consultant both to Apple Computer on the initial Macintosh project and InteCom where he helped establish sales and distribution channels. In 1981, he founded ProNet, a paging service company. In 1983, he began his own venture capital partnership, Berry Cash Southwest Partnership. Cash is a board member of the School of American Research and serves on the board of directors at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, both of which are located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He served three years in the Air Force, received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, and an M.B.A. from Western Michigan University.