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Stan Reiss is passionate about bringing cutting edge technology to market. Since joining Matrix nearly a decade ago, he has invested primarily in companies developing technically sophisticated components, systems, and software. His investments include Noble Peak Vision, a maker of CMOS image sensors; Qualtre, a start-up developing novel MEMS-based inertial sensors; and Xtalic, a nanostructured metal alloy and coating company.

Stan joined Matrix in the summer of 2000. He had previously spent time helping technology companies refine their strategies and operations in McKinsey & Company’s electronics practice as well as developing Ethernet chips at National Semiconductor.

Stan was born in Gdansk, a shipbuilding city in the north of Poland, and grew up at a time of social unrest and martial law. He and his family immigrated to the U.S. in 1982. Stan began programming in junior high, and in high school he worked for a semiconductor test equipment start-up, where he coded software that enabled a probe to take optical measurements of wafers.

He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Cornell University, two engineering masters’ degrees from MIT (focused on communications networking), and an MBA from the Harvard Business School (where he was a Baker Scholar).

Outside of the office Stan can be found working on remodeling projects at home, hiking with and coaching his kids in New England, or skiing in the Rockies or Canada.

I am very comfortable calling Stan and telling him what is really going on. I don’t need to do ‘staging’ for our meetings. We are able to have genuine conversations about the progress of the business, and get some useful advice. Stan does not try to tell us how to run our business, but he takes the role of considered counselor.

Tom Clay, Co-founder, Xtalic