Mike Hodges

Mike Hodges joined ATA Ventures in 2006 as a Venture Partner, after having built a reputation as a successful CEO and interim CEO. Mike is credited with several successful turn-around efforts, including Tellium, a Telecom Networking company that began as a technology spinout from Bellcore in 1997 (Tellium completed a public offering of $1.5B in 2001). Furthermore, Mr. Hodges filled CEO or iCEO roles at a variety of venture-backed technology start-ups, including Cygnet Systems, Biometric Imaging, SkyStream, NanoGram, Bandwidth9, Onetta, Silvan Networks, and MEMX. Prior to his startup success, Mike’s career from direct operating roles through division president at Spectra-Physics during which time the company grew to a $300M revenue NYSE public company. His more notable positions at Spectra-Physics included Division President Barcode Laser Scanning and Division President Autolab Instrumentation Division. Mike currently serves as a Director on the Boards of TeleCIS Wireless, PixSense and Red Condor. Mike graduated from U.C. Berkeley, receiving BSEE and MSEE degrees.