Biography
Perry Ha is a Managing Director of DFJ Athena. In 1997, he founded Athena Technology Ventures, a Silicon Valley based venture capital fund with an investment focus on early-stage startups in IT. He applied his hands-on approach to investing and building companies. He has invested in and/or served on the board of many companies including Ipivot [INTC], Demandtec [DMAN], Imparto Software [PKS], ProfitLogic [ORCL], and Zantaz [Autonomy symbol]. He also served as interim CEO in two different companies. Prior to venture capital, he led the Product Development and Technology Management Practice at Gemini Consulting, a global management consultancy, helping Fortune 1000 clients manage technology portfolios and develop new products. He also managed a Development Group at Amicon, a life sciences device company, which was successfully sold to Milipore in 1994. He was granted two design patents during his tenure at Amicon. He serves on the Advisory Board of Seoul Software Incubator (SVI), on the board of Korean American Society of Entrepreneurs (KASE), and on the Leadership Board of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He was the captain of his collegiate volleyball team and was selected to Division I NCAA All-American Third Team. He is a life-long student and teacher of Tae Kwon Do, a Korean martial art in which he has been a certified Master Instructor since 1992.