Venrock Adds Nordan as VP

Wade Roush8/24/09

Matthew Nordan, the co-founder and former president of technology consulting firm Lux Research, has joined the Cambridge, MA, office of venture firm Venrock as a vice president, the firm announced today. Nordan will focus on energy, environmental and materials technologies for Venrock, which originated as the venture investing arm of the Rockefeller family. (We profiled another Venrock vice president, David Beisel, in March 2008.)

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