Victor Tsao

Tsao and his wife Janie co-founded Linksys, a consumer home networking pioneer, and sold the company to Cisco Systems for $500 million in 2003.

Born Ts'ao Ying-wei,[1] Tsao received his bachelor's degree in computer science at Tamkang University in Tamsui, Taiwan.

[2] Janie Tsao moved to the United States in 1975, and a year later, Victor went to Chicago to attend graduate school at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he obtained his master's degree in computer science in 1980.

[3] He worked in various computer-related jobs at Montgomery Ward, Kraft Foods, TRW and Taco Bell, and earned an MBA degree from Pepperdine University.

[5] They continued to work for Cisco as senior vice presidents until 2007, when they retired from corporate life[2] and shifted their focus to Miven Venture Partners, an investment firm they had founded in 2005.