Carbonara is a Managing Director at Citi Ventures and works out of the Palo Alto office. He strives to create win-win scenarios that provide customer engagement and product feedback for high-potential startups while motivating innovation and business transformation for both Citi and its clients. Prior to Citi Ventures, Carbonara was at Cisco where he led investments and acquisitions in enterprise networking, collaboration, and IoT, both locally and in Israel. He also has investment experience from Comcast Ventures and TeleSoft Partners. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Carbonara was employee 10 at Terayon Communication Systems, a Sequoia- and Lightspeed-backed startup that went public, where he initially architected and designed application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) before moving into product marketing and product management. Matt received his Bachelor of Science summa cum laude and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University.