Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Mr. Fiddler is the Chairman of Solazyme (Nasdaq:SZYM). Solazyme is the first company in the world able to make commercial quantities of oil using algae. Mr. Fiddler also sits on several other corporate boards.

He has worked actively both with students and in an advisory capacity at a number of universities, including University of California/Berkeley, Stanford, Wharton, and University of Illinois. He has been Foundation Capital executive-in-residence, and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, teaching entrepreneurship in the school of engineering. He serves on the UC President’s advisory board on science and innovation, the foundation board of Chabot Space & Science Center, and is a trustee of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and The California Jazz Conservatory.

He received a BA in music and photography, and an MS in computer science, both from University of Illinois. He still plays and composes music, and some of his photography can be seen at his photo site.