Greg Blonder is a Partner at Morgenthaler Ventures , and previously was Entrepreneur in Residence at AT&T Ventures. Mr. Blonder joined AT&T in 1982, studying superconductivity and the quantum phenomena of semiconductor materials. Much of this research has resulted in practical applications and he holds over 70 patents in the areas of optical disk recording, integrated fiber optic devices, displays, toys, computer systems and improved user interfaces.

In 1987 he was promoted to head of the Photonics and Electronics Research Department, and then in 1991 to director of the Materials and Technology Integration Research Laboratory. In 1992 he assumed the additional responsibility of Chief Technical Advisor for Corporate Strategy and Development, where he was involved in selecting technical and business strategies for AT&T. In 1995, recognizing the need to focus Bell Labs research activities closer to consumer markets, he started the Customer Expectations Research Lab. This lab (Article in Fast Company) tries to understand human behavior through a variety of statistical and cognitive techniques- and then relate those needs to future products and services. They also pioneered a quantitative approach to scenario planning, which has been adopted by a number of companies. Greg's personal research was divided between discovering compelling new services and inventing new classes of consumer electronics devices (such as the AT&T Wrist Telephone). In January 1998 he decided to leave AT&T Labs, and follow some of these ideas through to the marketplace by joining AT&T Ventures. In 2000 he joined Morgenthaler Ventures.

Greg is a director or advisor at a number of private companies, including foonz, IGA, NanoOpto, Princeton Lightwave , Paratek, Lamina Lighting, InPlane Photonics, Five Star and Droplets.

Mr. Blonder attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) where his undergraduate thesis was on phase transitions in liquid crystals. In 1982 he received his MS and Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University after elucidating the physics behind the normal-superconducting transition in point contact junctions.