Nokia Growth Partners Adds Todd Forrest and Bryan Biniak

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Nokia Growth Partners, the venture capital arm of Nokia, is expanding its Palo Alto-based team’s operating capacity with the addition of Todd Forrest as Operating Partner and Bryan Biniak as an Entrepreneur in Residence.Earlier Forrest was CFO at Hummer Winblad, a venture firm.Bryan Biniak, who is joining NGP from Microsoft where he most recently served as general manager of the worldwide developer ecosystem and application marketplace for its smartphones and feature phones, will be working to bolster NGP’s investment activity in augmented reality, virtual reality and connected vehicle infotainment.Biniak has founded and sold two companies as well as served in executive leaderships positions at Nokia, Vivendi Universal, American Greetings Corporation and Harmonix Music Systems – developer of Guitar Hero and Rockband.Exits include the RocketFuel IPO and two of the largest tech acquisitions in China of UCWeb and GanJi.

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