Tudor Brown became President of ARM in July 2008 with responsibility for developing high-level relationships with industry partners and governmental agencies and for regional development. He was appointed to the Board of ARM Holdings plc as Chief Operating Officer in October 2001. In this role he was responsible for ARM's main operating divisions as well as U.S. and Indian operations. Before that, he was Executive Vice President, Global Development, responsible for the development of ARM's regional offices, in particular in Japan and the AsiaPac region.
Brown is one of the founding members of ARM. Trained as an electrical engineer, his early career was in high-speed mixed-signal electronics, designing industrial control systems. He joined ARM from Acorn where he was Principal Engineer, working exclusively on the ARM research and development program from 1984. He was appointed ARM's Engineering Director in 1992 and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) in 1997. As CTO, he was responsible for overseeing development and delivery of ARM's processor architecture and supporting software. During this period he was heavily involved in the early licensing of ARM technology in many countries.
His many roles in ARM have given him a deep understanding not only of the technologies involved but also of the business models and partner engagements critical to ARM's success.
Brown received an MA degree in Electrical Sciences from Cambridge University, and he holds one patent in low-power logic and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Brown is also a non-executive director of ANT Software Limited, a UK company developing advanced software for multimedia platforms.
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Since co-founding Synopsys in 1986, Dr. Aart de Geus has expanded Synopsys from a start-up synthesis enterprise to a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA).
As one of the leading experts on logic simulation and logic synthesis, Dr. de Geus was made a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in January 1999. He was also honored for pioneering the commercial logic synthesis market by being named the third recipient ever to receive the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Industrial Pioneer Award.
In 2002, shortly after transacting the largest merger in EDA history, Dr. de Geus was named CEO of the Year by Electronic Business magazine; and in 2004, Entrepreneur of the Year in IT for Northern California by Ernst & Young. In November 2005, Electronic Business magazine chose Dr. de Geus as one of The 10 Most Influential Executives. Dr. de Geus is active in the business community as a member of the board of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), TechNet and as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC). He is also heavily involved in education for the next generation, having created in 1999 the Synopsys Outreach Foundation, which promotes project-based science and math learning throughout Silicon Valley.
Hugh Durdan is responsible for eSilicon's overall operations management. Mr. Durdan is focused on the development, design, operations and quality of eSilicon's products and services.
Mr. Durdan has more than 28 years of systems, semiconductor and ASIC business experience. Most recently, Mr. Durdan was vice president of marketing at eSilicon. Prior to joining eSilicon, Durdan served as vice president of the CCI and Technical Services business group at Altera Corporation. Prior to this, Mr. Durdan served over three years at LSI Logic Corporation as the vice president and general manager of the Computer and Consumer Divisions. Prior to joining LSI Logic, he was the vice president of engineering at Mylex, a RAID and SCSI host adapter company. Mr. Durdan started his career at Digital Equipment Corp. with roles in marketing and engineering management.
Mr. Durdan holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Mark Edelstone joined J.P.Morgan as a Managing Director and Head of Global Semiconductor Investment Banking in 2007. Since joining J.P.Morgan, Mr. Edelstone has managed large equity, convertible, and debt-related offerings for Altera, Applied Materials, Avago, Broadcom, Cadence, Cree, Entropic, Intel, Maxim, Microchip Technology, National Semiconductor, NXP, STEC, Texas Instruments, Xilinx, and other companies. During his three decades of involvement with the semiconductor industry, Mr. Edelstone has led the IPOs for Agere, ARM Holdings, Atheros, Avago, Broadcom, Cavium Networks, Conexant, Freescale, MMC Networks, NVIDIA, NXP, ON Semiconductor, QED, Silicon Laboratories, SiRF, Spreadtrum and Transmeta. In addition, Mr. Edelstone has provided advisory services for Beceem, CopperGate, CSR, Mellanox, Microchip Technology, Montalvo, ON Semiconductor, Virage Logic, Samsung, and other companies.
Prior to joining J.P.Morgan, Mr. Edelstone was a Managing Director and Global Leader for Semiconductor Research at Morgan Stanley from 1997 to 2007. Between 1989 and 1997, Mr. Edelstone followed the semiconductor industry at Prudential Securities, where he was employed as a Managing Director. Prior to joining Prudential Securities, Mr. Edelstone served as a portfolio manager and market strategist for Comprehensive Market Timing, Inc., a corporation that he co-founded.
Mr. Edelstone was selected as an all-star analyst by Institutional Investor magazine for his research coverage of the semiconductor industry for 11 consecutive years. Mr. Edelstone was also consistently ranked as a leading semiconductor analyst in the annual Greenwich survey. In a 1999 Reuters survey covering all US-based analysts, Mr. Edelstone was ranked as the leading semiconductor analyst and the 13th-highest ranked analyst on Wall Street. In addition, he was selected five times for the Wall Street Journal's Stock Picking Award within "The Best on the Street Survey." During 1999 and 2001, Mr. Edelstone was listed by First Call Corp. as the most-read securities analyst in the world.
Mr. Edelstone received his undergraduate degree in Political Economics from the University of California, and holds an MBA in Finance, with a concentration in Investments, from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. In addition, Mr. Edelstone holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Market Technician designations.
Don is currently vice president of supply chain operations at Qualcomm.
Prior to joining Qualcomm in 2008, Esses was executive vice president of operations at LSI, where he held numerous positions in operations and engineering during his 24 year tenure. For 10 years prior to joining LSI, he held a variety of roles in the process engineering and yield management areas at several major semiconductor companies, including National Semiconductor, Monolithic Memories, Signetics and Data General.
Esses received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1973. He received the Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer award from Purdue University in 2005.
Richard Goering has been researching, analyzing, and communicating about the EDA industry for over two decades. As the EDA editor at EE Times for 17 years, Richard covered all aspects of the industry, from DFM to embedded software. He has reported in depth about design issues, covered many industry conferences and events, interviewed industry leaders, and moderated panel discussions. Now at Cadence, Richard writes the Industry Insights blog and manages other Cadence Community blogs.
Mark Grossman is a Managing Director at Pagemill Partners. At Pagemill, he has successfully completed more than 30 transactions around the world including M&A deals, divestitures, strategic capital raises, and private placements, with a focus on semiconductor and systems companies.
Previously, Mark worked as an investment banker at SVB Alliant where he was involved in a variety of technology M&A transactions.
Prior to becoming an investment banker, Mark was a managing director and senior semiconductor research analyst at both Needham & Co. and SG Cowen. His work as a research analyst has given Mark an in-depth understanding of the semiconductor industry, including processors, consumer, communications and analog. As an analyst, he received a number of accolades including the Wall Street Journal "Best on the Street" award.
Mark began his financial career as an associate at Goldman Sachs. Prior to graduate school, Mark was a project engineer at General Electric, where he managed the development of a variety of complex electronics systems.
Mark has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University, and both a masters degree (Electrical Engineering) and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he completed a two-year dual-degree program.
Amer Haider is currently Cavium's Vice President of Corporate and Business Development. He is responsible for strategic initiatives, M&A activity, and central marketing functions. In his current role he has completed multiple acquisitions that have added ARM-based processors, video, wireless and digital media processors and embedded Linux and software services to Cavium's growing product portfolio. Since he joined Cavium in early 2001 as its first marketing person, Amer has held leadership roles in product management, strategy, and ecosystem alliances. Prior to Cavium, Amer held multiple product management and engineering roles at network security and communication companies. Amer has multiple patents pending in the area of digital security, content protection and processor power. He received a BS from NED University of Engineering in Karachi, Pakistan and MS and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Since joining IHS iSuppli, Len has focused his research on capacity management and technology transitions within the semiconductor industry. Len works with clients to access individual corporate strategies that may be impacted by additional wafer manufacturing capacity in China as well as other global locations.
Len has developed an extensive database of wafer manufacturing suppliers both leading IDMs and pure play foundries service providers. This database can be used by clients to define corporate manufacturing strategies such as expand internal capacity versus transitioning to an outsourcing model.
Len came to IHS iSuppli after 28 years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing and business management in the semiconductor industry. He has gained invaluable experience with specific emphasis on program management, financial analysis, and manufacturing during his employment with ON Semiconductor and Motorola.
Len holds a BS in Chemistry from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Chad Keck joined Needham & Company in 1991. Since opening the Menlo Park office in that year, he has been involved in over 175 investment banking transactions, including 40 initial public offerings. Prior to joining Needham, he was a managing director and head of Prudential Bache's San Francisco Investment Banking Group. Other investment banking experience includes three years in First Boston's Technology Group and founding and co-heading Smith Barney's Technology Financing Group. Chad has served as Head of the Menlo Park Office, Co-head of Corporate Finance and Chairman of the Investment Banking Management Committee. In December of 2005, he became Vice Chairman of Needham & Company, LLC. Today, Chad works with a broad cross-section of the firm's clients, focusing on the semiconductor sector. He has taken an active role in developing the firm's business in Asia and in the alternative energy sector, particularly solar. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Narendra Konda has been the director of hardware engineering at NVIDIA for the last 10 years, where he is responsible for system integration, emulation and verification using emulation. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he worked at 3Dfx as the manager of verification and emulation, and gained experience in the EDA industry at Quickturn and Cadence. He holds his MSEE.
A 20-year veteran in the venture industry, Ken joined Battery in 1995. He manages Battery's Menlo Park office and focuses on investments in communications infrastructure equipment, clean tech and advanced materials, and semiconductor companies. Since joining Battery, he has led the firm�s investments in Airespace (acquired by Cisco), Advanced Analogic Technologies (NASDAQ: AATI), Amalfi Semiconductor, Aurora Networks, Calxeda, Lara Networks (acquired by Cypress Semiconductor), MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL), Optichron, Packet Engines (acquired by Alcatel), SigmaTel (NASDAQ: SGTL), and Zenverge.
Prior to joining Battery in 1995, Ken spent 10 years in venture capital at Patricof & Co. Ventures and Berkeley International Capital Corporation. Before starting his venture capital career in 1985, he worked in product management at Advanced Micro Devices and in engineering management at Teradyne and Fairchild Semiconductor. Ken holds a BS and an MS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Tim currently leads the organization responsible for providing Intel's business groups with technology and supply chain solutions in outsourced manufacturing. In this role, Tim leads a worldwide organization of engineering and business teams accountable for manufacturing operations, bill of materials and supplier relationship management across the spectrum of silicon foundry, packaging and assembly/test, ODM/EMS, and component selection and procurement.
Prior to this assignment, Tim has been a supply chain leader with over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. His supply chain leadership experiences encompass worldwide distribution, postponement and transportation, as well as production planning. In addition to supply chain, Tim has held management and leadership positions in manufacturing, finance, and IT functions. Tim spent 2 years with his family stationed in Japan as the director of finance and administration, leading the financial, legal and operational teams for Intel's Japan business.
Tim is active in the local community, as vice chairman of the Valley of the Sun YMCA, and a volunteer at the Valley of the Sun United Way.
Scott McGregor is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the company, business development and day-to-day operations.
Mr. McGregor, who is also a member of the Board of Directors, joined Broadcom in January 2005 after serving since September 2001 as President and CEO of the Philips Semiconductors division of the Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics, At Philips, Mr. McGregor oversaw one of the world's largest semiconductor suppliers, with 34,000 employees in over 50 countries and nearly US$6 billion in sales in 2004. In addition to his CEO role, he was also a member of the Group Management Committee of Royal Philips Electronics. He joined Philips Semiconductors in February 1998 as head of its Emerging Business unit, focusing on fast growing markets for smart cards, RFID, networking, digital media processing and computing, and leading the group to profitability and nearly US$1 billion in sales.
Before joining Philips, from 1990 to 1998 Mr. McGregor served in various senior management positions, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager, at Santa Cruz Operation Inc. (SCO), a provider of network computing solutions. From 1985 to 1990 he served in senior positions at Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of HP) where he led the UNIX workstation software group and was one of the architects of the X Window System. Prior to joining Digital Equipment Corporation, he worked at Microsoft, where he was the Director of the Interactive Systems Group and the architect and development team leader of the original version of Microsoft Windows®. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. McGregor spent over six years in various positions at the Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he was involved in designing software for the first personal computers employing graphical user interfaces.
Mr. McGregor received a B.A. in Psychology and a M.S. in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford University.
Sanjay Mehrotra became president and chief executive officer effective January 2011. He was appointed to the SanDisk board of directors in July 2010. Mehrotra co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and was appointed president and chief operating officer in June 2006. He previously served as executive vice president and chief operating officer, senior vice president of engineering, vice president of product development and director of memory design and product engineering.
Mehrotra has more than 30 years of experience in the non-volatile semiconductor memory industry, including engineering and management positions at SanDisk, Integrated Device Technology, Inc., SEEQ Technology, Inc., Intel Corporation and Atmel Corporation.
Mehrotra earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. He also holds several patents and has published articles in the area of non-volatile memory design and flash memory systems. Mehrotra currently serves on the board of directors of Cavium Networks and the Engineering Advisory Board of the University of California, Berkeley.
Dale Miller has responsibilities for worldwide client supply chain management at IBM Microelectronics. Mr. Miller is responsible for the divisions' worldwide supply and demand process for semiconductor products spanning custom logic (ASIC), specialtiy foundry and custom processors. This includes client relationships with regard to supply and capacity planning, worldwide logistics, revenue process, order management, and distribution.
Dale joined IBM in 1982. Between 1982 and 1988 he held technical positions related to manufacturing equipment support for the test of semiconductor hardware. From 1989 through today, he has held a number of management positions ranging from semiconductor and test manufacturing operations, supply chain operations and supply Chain Management.
Dale received a AAS degree in electrical engineering from Vermont Technical College in 1982. He also pursued additional studies in engineering, mathematics and business at the University of Vermont and Trinity College.
Dan Niles is currently the Co-chief Investment Officer for Alpha One Capital Partners, an investment management firm serving institutional and high net-worth investors. In 2010, the AlphaOne Satori Fund, which Dan manages, was named a top 10 Equity Long/Short performer for 2010 as well as for the past three years by BarclayHedge. In 2006, the Satori Technology Fund, which Dan managed, was awarded the "Best Newcomer" award at the 2006 MARHedge US Performance Awards.
Dan was selected for Institutional Investor Magazine's "All-America Equity Research Team" from 1999-2003 in the semiconductor category and from 2000-2003 in the PC hardware/IT hardware categories. Mr. Niles has received five awards in the Wall Street Journal's "Best on the Street" survey, including awards for stock picking in the categories of computer peripherals, computer hardware & PCs, and semiconductors.
From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Niles was a Managing Director at Neuberger Berman, Inc., and Chief Executive Officer of Neuberger Berman Technology Management which focused on long and short equity investments in the technology sector. Before starting his Wall Street career, Mr. Niles was an engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Niles received a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from Boston University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
James Ready is the CTO of MontaVista Software. Called "arguably the one individual most responsible for establishing the embedded OS and tools market" by LinuxDevices.com and "an iconic figure within the IT industry" by SD Times, James is a recognized authority in the embedded systems and real-time software industry. The co-founder of Ready Systems, he developed the world's first commercially viable real-time operating system (RTOS) product: the VRTX real-time kernel.
Ready Systems, founded in 1980, merged with Microtec Research in 1993, went public in 1994, and was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1995. During this period, Jim served as Ready Systems' President, and as chief technical officer (CTO) at Microtec/Mentor.
Jim invented the category of embedded Linux commercialization in 1999 when he founded MontaVista Software to provide the Linux operating system to the embedded systems market, and to offer embedded-system expertise to the open source Linux community.
Jim got his BA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971 and his MA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976.
Rich joined Foundation Capital in 2004 after more than 20 years in networking and communications, amassing a combination of start-up entrepreneurial as well as large company intrapreneurial experience. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Atheros Communications, which he helped build into the leading provider of Wi-Fi wireless semiconductors; it was subsequently named "Silicon Valley's Fastest Growing Private Company" by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and PricewaterhouseCoopers for the 2001-2003 period. In 2003 Rich received Frost & Sullivan's prestigious "Wireless LAN CEO of the Year" award.
Rich currently serves on the boards of ACCO Semiconductor, Dust Networks,Transphorm and Ventiva, and was previously on the boards of Mobius Microsystems (IDT), Prematics (NaviNet), SiBEAM (Silicon Image), Azimuth Systems and Atheros Communications. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSIE from Purdue.
Claus Rohde joined BSQUARE in September 2011 through the Company's acquisition of MPC Data Ltd. At MPC, Rohde was instrumental in establishing, MPD Data Inc., the U.S. branch of MPC Data Group. Named Vice President of Engineering in 2008, Rohde established and developed MPC's U.S. business through his expertise as an embedded software specialist and excellent, personal connections with leading silicon and operating system vendors.
Rohde's embedded industry career includes experience in both hardware and software design of modern, embedded devices. Starting in 1992, he established his own company for Windows NT driver development and real-time extensions for industrial applications. With the first release of Microsoft�s Windows CE operating system, Rohde was appointed one of the first German and European system integrators for the then new embedded operating system. In 2002, Rohde merged his company with Garz & Fricke, developing the joined companies into a leading OEM and board manufacturer through partnerships with Microsoft, Renesas and Sharp. He still serves as a Garz & Fricke Associate.
Rohde is also a co-founder and associate of Trinamic Motion Control, a specialist fabless silicon vendor for stepper motor and BLDC control ICs.
He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Hamburg.
Bob Scarborough co-founded Tensoft in 1996, and is its current CEO. A recognized leader in supply chain solutions for the semiconductor industry, Tensoft specializes in software solutions for technology companies. Bob's role at the company includes strategic and overall leadership.
A software industry veteran of more than 24 years, Bob has focused on the fabless semiconductor industry since 2000. In addition to his system expertise and broad industry knowledge, Bob has designed a number of highly sophisticated software applications, including Tensoft's Fabless Semiconductor Management (FSM). He is an active member of the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA) and has published several semiconductor industry articles and whitepapers.
Before co-founding Tensoft, Bob was the Vice President for West Coast Operations of Deltek Systems (PROJ). He established Deltek's first successful field office in California, and grew the West Coast region revenue over 500% in five years. Prior to that, Bob was the CFO of a Washington, D.C. consulting organization. Bob holds a BS in Finance from the University of Maryland, and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.
Ralph Schmitt was appointed president and CEO in November 2008. During 2008 he consulted with a variety of venture capitalists, as well as acted as chief executive officer of Legend Silicon, a privately funded Chinese terrestrial digital TV semiconductor company. From 2005 thru 2007, he was chief executive officer of Sipex, an analog semiconductor company, which merged with Exar in 2007 where he was appointed chief executive officer. From 1999 to 2005 Schmitt was executive vice president of sales, marketing and business development for Cypress Semiconductor where he led sales growth to more than $1 billion and oversaw the acquisition and integration of numerous companies. Schmitt has also served on the boards at Cypress subsidiaries and other privately held semiconductor and systems companies. He began his career as a systems hardware designer and received his BSEE from Rutgers University.
Bruce Wilford is a computer networking professional with over 25 years of experience. He has worked at a number of start-up companies, where his responsibilities primarily involved system architecture and design, writing deeply embedded software and chip development. Bruce has previously been a distinguished engineer at Cisco Systems and Director of VLSI at Procket Networks. Most recently Bruce was developing LTE data-plane microcode. Bruce received his BSc from University College London.
