Alex Eleftheriadis

Dr. Alexandros Eleftheriadis is a Partner at Big Pi Ventures, an early-stage deep tech venture capital fund that he co-founded in 2018. In 2005 he co-founded Vidyo, a pioneering videoconferencing systems company that was acquired by Enghouse in 2019. He has been an active angel investor with exits to Meta and Dell. Prior to Vidyo he was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He has also held an appointment as an Associate Professor at the University of Athens, in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications. He is an award-winning researcher with more than 100 publications, holds more than 150 patents internationally, and his inventions are used in several international digital video standards (H.264 AVC, H.265 HEVC, Blu-ray DVD, ATSC US digital terrestrial TV, and ARIB Japan digital TV). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1995 and his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1990.