Hamid Lalani

Mr. Hamid Lalani is Executive-in-Residence at X/Seed Capital Management LLC.
Most recently Hamid headed up marketing, product management and business development for a Silicon Valley funded wireless cell-site backhaul venture called Aktino, Inc. He successfully raised of more than $40M of venture funds over two rounds of financing for the company.
From 1998-2002, Mr. Lalani was the VP of marketing and product management at Alcatel’s (now Alcatel-Lucent) largest North American division in Petaluma, CA.
Under his leadership, the division grew from $350M to $1.2B.
Previous to that Mr. Lalani spent six years at another venture funded start-up called BroadBand Technologies, Inc. which was the world’s first integrated voice, data and video platform.
That venture had significant successes around the world including a successful IPO in 1994 (BBTK –NADSAQ) that returned more than 30 times return to its original investors.
Mr. Lalani has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and an MBA for The Darden School, University of Virginia.