Lucian Wagner

Lucian Wagner serves as General Partner at EuroUS Ventures. He also serves as General Partner at Privilege Ventures. He serves as the Board Member at Attolight and Gondola Medical Technologies. He co-founded and is chairman of the Launch in US Alliance, an organization focused on helping European companies successfully expand into the US. He also serves on the board of directors of Oxxius SA, a French manufacturer of lasers. Before joining EuroUS Ventures he was a co-founder and member of the board of directors of Prodgeny, Inc., a start-up in the area of supply chain traceability for electronics and automotive manufacturing. He also launched US operations for itemic AG, a German semiconductor software company and was responsible for their worldwide sales and marketing. In 1999, he co-founded and became CEO of FabCentric, a Yield Management software company, where he raised several million dollars in VC funding and which he grew to more than 25 employees before it was sold to another publicly traded software company in late 2001. Lucian spent almost 20 years in the semiconductor industry, holding a series of positions with increasing responsibilities. Initially he was assistant to the VP of European sales & marketing of GCA, the largest lithography tool manufacturer at the time. At ADE Corporation, a metrology tool manufacturer, he started out as general manager of European Distribution & Service and later was promoted to the position of Worldwide marketing manager. Lucian was born in Germany, educated in the French school system, and went on to earn a B.Sc. in International Economics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (with a minor in Russian) and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He lives near Zurich, Switzerland.