Carlos Kokron is the Vice President and Managing Director of North America, based in San Diego, CA. He is currently Board member or observer at Augury, Matterport, Spire, Particle, CargoX, Loggi, Ingresse, and WebRadar.He started his career as an engineer in process industries having held positions in operations and process engineering, as well as strategic planning and corporate finance at Unilever in Brazil and at Unocal 76 (now Chevron) in California. Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures he was responsible for Intel’s business with Service Providers in Latin America. Earlier, Kokron was Director of Intel Capital for Latin America and Southwest U.S. and Partner at Stratus Group in Brazil responsible for the firm’s Growth Capital platform. Kokron holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering and has earned his MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.