Greg Franklin

Principal, Intellect Partners, Palo Alto CA

Intellect Partners is a Palo Alto based venture catalyst with global reach specializing in bringing innovation to the wireless and fixed network value chain.

Greg has worked in the communications industry for almost 20 years. He has partnered with both start-ups and established companies on innovation driven business strategies for which he believes corporate partnerships are a pre-requisite success ingredient. The transaction tools Intellect Partners has deployed for this purpose include strategic alliances, technology licensing, contract engineering, M&A and private equity venture capital investments. In the later capacity Greg manages an early stage venture capital fund for TeliaSonera, the leading Nordic Baltic region telecom service provider whose operations touch approaching 100 Million mobile customers daily spanning from Copenhagen to Helsinki and Istanbul to Moscow.