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Michael Canning
[to SiRF Technology]
Dr. Canning has more than 20 years of experience in Executive Management positions in the Semiconductor Industry. Most recently he was CEO of SiRF Technology.
Prior to that he was President & CEO of Stream Machine, and he had spent 12 years at Cirrus Logic, starting as a member of the founding executive team. At Cirrus Logic, he established gFablessh Manufacturing as Executive VP Operations, and built $400M business as President of the Mass Storage Division. He has also served as President of Teledyne Semiconductor.
Dave Ditzel
[to Transmeta]
Dr. Ditzel is a founder and Ex-CEO/CTO of Transmeta, and he is currently at Intel.
Before founding Transmeta, he was a director of SPARC Labs and CTO at Sun Microsystems.
In 1991, he led one of the first joint US-Russia high-technology projects that employed 200 engineers from the former Soviet Union's supercomputer design team. Before Sun, at Bell Lab he was a chief architect of CRISP, AT&T's first RISC chip. He has published over 30 technical papers, starting from the co-authored paper, "The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer," the bible of RISC technology.
Brian P. Dougherty
[to Wink]
Mr. Dougherty is CEO of Airena, Inc. Prior to Airena, he served as Chairman and CTO since co-founding Wink in October 1994. He also served as Chief Executive Officer from its inception until December 1996. Prior to co-founding Wink, Brian founded Geoworks Corporation, a software developer, in 1983 and served as its CEO from 1983 to 1993, and Chairman from 1983 to 1997.
Bill Howe
[to Azaire Networks]
Mr. Howe was CEO of Azaire Networks and Mobility Network Systems. Prior to that, he led TeleCruz Technology's transition from a silicon supplier to an interactive television platform provider. At Intel Corporation, he drove the growth of the flash memory business to almost $1 billion. He increased Intel Japan's Revenue from $85M to $950M in eight years while he managed the operation as the President of Intel Japan K.K.
Adriaan Ligtenberg
[to Takumi Technology]
Dr. Ligtenberg is currently Chairman of Takumi Technology Corp. Prior to that, he was a VP at Cadence, and the founder of A3 Ventures after his success at C-Cube and Storm Technology bringing innovative technology to market. He is a co-founder of ViaSphere an incubator of technology start-ups in Silicon Valley. Dr. Ligtenberg is a member of the board of Angles and a limited partner in August Capital.
Jim Long
Mr. Long is currently a venture partner of Gabriel Venture Partners. Prior to that, he was CEO of RioPort, the pioneering music service provider, acquired by Ecast. Before joining RioPort, he founded Starlight Networks with Charlie Bass in 1992 where he was CEO. Starlight was acquired by PictureTel in November, 1998. Previously, he worked as a venture capitalist with Fred Adler, and with a number of high-technology startup companies, both as a founder and in senior management positions with organizations such as Ready Systems, Manageware, Veritas and Unix International. He began his career at Hewlett-Packard where he was responsible for software development and product marketing.
Julien Nguyen
[to Concept Ventures]
Mr. Nguyen is currently the Managing Director at Concept Ventures. Prior to Concept Ventures, he led Applied Venture Capital, as the Managing Director. Before he becomes a investor, he was a VP of Product Management and COO at Planetweb since its merger with Novita, a Java technology company which he founded and where he was Chairman and CEO. He launched E-Motions in May 1992 and continued to serve on its board as Co-Chairman until 1996.
Dave Stamm
[to Entaka]
Mr. Stamm is currently President & CEO of Enkata Technologies.
He is also actively supporting Silicon Valley start-ups as an angel. Since 1988, when he co-founded Clarify, until 1990, when he became chairman of the board, he served as the president and CEO of the company. Stamm also co-founded Daisy Systems Corporation, a CAE hardware and software company, in 1980. While at Daisy, he served in a variety of executive positions through late 1988, most recently as executive vice president, and served as a director until late 1989. Prior to joining Daisy, Stamm was employed by Intel Corporation for seven years.
Mark Templeton
Mr. Templeton
co-founded Artisan Components in 1991 and was its President and CEO for 13 years. He has served on the Board of Directors of ARM holdings since its acquisition of Artisan Components. He has been instrumental in driving growth in the IP market through a combination of technical and business innovation. His vision of developing an open community of resources for IC designers - including foundries, EDA vendors, design service companies and IP providers - has proven to be a significant contribution to the IC design and manufacturing industries. Before co-founding Artisan, he held executive positions with Silicon Compiler Systems and Mentor Graphics.
Jen-Hsun Huang
[to NVIDIA]
Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang is Co-founder, President, and CEO of NVIDIA Corporation.
Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become the world leader
in programmable graphics processing technologies and one of
the semiconductor industry's largest fabless companies.
He serves on the RAND Corporation's Board of Trustees and
is a member of the Committee of 100, an organization that
addresses issues concerning the Chinese-American community and U.S.-China relations.
In 2004, the Fabless Semiconductor Association honored Mr. Huang
with the prestigious Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award.
Tudor Brown
[to ARM]
Mr. Brown is Co-founder, and President of ARM.
Before joining the Company, he was Principal Engineer at Acorn Computers,
where he worked on the ARM R&D programme. At ARM, he was Engineering Director
and Chief Technical Officer from 1993; in October 2000, he was appointed
Executive Vice President, Global Development and in October 2001,
he was appointed to the board as Chief Operating Officer.
He is a non-executive director of ANT plc.
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