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Gerald Hwasta is an Operating Member of Shah Capital Partners. He formerly held management roles in sales & marketing for Sun Microsystems and Cobalt Networks where he led a team that created products based on partner technologies. As the head of Corporate Development of Cobalt Networks, Mr. Hwasta was instrumental in the sale of the company to Sun Microsystems for $2 billion. Formerly, he was an investment banker at Robertson Stephens in San Francisco, focusing on semiconductor and other technology hardware companies. Mr. Hwasta holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.