Karim Faris

Karim is a member of the Google Ventures team. He joined Google’s corporate development team in 2008, the group responsible for the company’s investments and acquisitions. Karim brings significant investment and general management experience to his role. Prior to Google, he was a venture investor at Atlas Venture, and an advisor to several startups in digital media. Previously, Karim was Director of New Ventures at Level 3 Communications, responsible for evaluating emerging business opportunities. Earlier in his career, Karim held various product and marketing roles at Intel, initially on the i486, and later as product manager for the Pentium Processor. He also held positions in private equity at Generation Partners and Morgan Stanley. Karim started his career at Siemens as a software engineer working on the first navigation system for BMW. Karim holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Computer Engineering from Brown University where he published several papers on Neural Networks.