Carl Ledbetter joined UV Partners in 2003. Previously, Dr. Ledbetter was Senior Vice President for Engineering, Research & Development at Novell, Inc., where he was responsible for Novell Ventures, its in-house venture capital program. Earlier in his career, Dr. Ledbetter was President of AT&T's Consumer Products Division and worked for Control Data Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and IBM. He was also both a dean and a professor of Mathematics at Sonoma State University and Wellesley College. Dr. Ledbetter earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Clark University, his Master's degree in Mathematics from Brandeis University, and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Redlands.

Dr. Ledbetter's work experience includes having served on the Board of Directors of three public and fourteen private companies. He was a board and audit committee member of PictureTel Corporation (PCTL) prior to its sale to Polycom, a board and compensation committee member of Software Spectrum (SSPE) before its sale to Level III, and Chairman and CEO of Hybrid Networks (HYBR). He has served on the boards of directors of private companies ICL, ETA Systems, Decision Point, Gluon, Hyperchord, Eo Corp, Gillian Technologies in Tel Aviv (acquired), TrendIQ, Caldera Systems (IPO), and Preventsys (acquired by McAfee). He has served as a board member of several UV III portfolio companies: MX Logic, OpenLogic, Dedicated Devices, and Sennari.

Dr. Ledbetter's operating experience in the technology industry includes having served as Systems Manager for IBM's 3090 machine program and as Director of IBM's Kingston Labs. He served on the board of the National Science Foundation's National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Cornell and Project Andrew at Carnegie Mellon. He was President and CEO of ETA Systems, the Control Data supercomputer subsidiary that designed and delivered the fastest supercomputer in the world. Later, he ran Sun Microsystems' PC networking business and its East Coast operations. He was President of AT&T's $3 billion, 16,000-employee Consumer Products Division, which designed, manufactured, and distributed all of AT&T's telephones and PBXs, including operations in forty states in the U.S. and in Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand. Later, he was Novell's Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for Engineering, Research & Development, in which roles he was responsible for all of Novell's networking products and services and ran engineering organizations in Utah, Boston, Bangalore, Dublin, Ukraine, Latvia, and the Czech Republic.

Dr. Ledbetter served as Chairman of the Governor's Task Force on the Computer Industry of Minnesota through two administrations. He was a member of the board of directors of the Wireless Industry Association, and completed a term as a member of the Technology Advisory Committee to the Joint House-Senate Committee on Science and Technology. He is a member of the board of directors of the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association and a past member of the board of directors of the Colorado Venture Capital Association. He has been the invited keynote speaker at more than a dozen international conferences on supercomputing, computer networking, computer security and encryption, and the technology industry. Dr. Ledbetter also holds a number of patents in computing and telecommunications.