- Forrest Williams
Forrest Williams is an American politician from California, currently serving on the San José City Council, representing District 2. Councilmember Williams has worked for IBM Corporation for over 35 years as a Senior Engineering Manager. He holds the following degrees: BSEE, MSEE, and DEECS; and is a veteran of the United States Army Signal Corps. Forrest and his wife, Dorothy, have been married for over 39 years and have two adult children.
- Joe Ossanna
Joseph F. Ossanna (December 10 1928 - November 28 1977), received his BSEE from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, in 1952. He was since a member of the Technical Staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. He was actively engaged in the software design of Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), a general purpose programming system used at Bell. He also authored the first version of troff for Unix.
- Jack E. Bresenham
Jack E. Bresenham is a professor of computer science. He retired from 27 years of service at IBM as a Senior Technical Staff Member in 1987. He taught for 10 years at Winthrop University and has five patents. He has three children: Janet, Linda, and David. Bresenham's line algorithm, developed in 1962, is his most well-known innovation. It determines which points on a 2-dimensional raster should be plotted in order to form a straight line between two given points, …
- Bruce Tracy
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- Perry R. Cook
Perry R. Cook attended the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music from 1973 to 1977, studying voice and electronic music. He worked as a sound engineer and designer from 1976 - 1981. He received the BA in music 1985, and the BS in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from UMKC. He received a Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1990.
- Patrick E. Crago
Patrick E. Crago is the department chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering . He received the B.S.E.E. from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1967, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University , in 1970 and 1973 respectively, followed by post-doctoral studies in neuromuscular physiology at Johns Hopkins University . He returned to Case as a Senior Research Associate in 1976, and joined the BME faculty in 1982.
- Rod Canion
Rod Canion has been a leading figure in the technology industry since co-founding Compaq Computer Corporation in 1982 and serving as its Chief Executive Officer through a decade of unprecedented growth. During his tenure as CEO, Compaq set records for the largest first-year sales in the history of American business and reached the Fortune 500 and the $1 billion revenue mark faster than any other company in history.
- Amos Ben-Meir
Amos Ben-Meir Semiconductor Industry Consultant Amos has over 20 years of experience with semiconductor and systems companies in design engineering and management roles. Amos is a consultant for TeleSoft on Semiconductors. Amos serves on the technology advisory boards of Aarohi Communications, Jasper Design Automation and Sycon Design. Previous advisory board positions included VxTel, which was acquired by Intel.
- Robert Lefort
Robert LeFort Robert LeFort was appointed as CEO of Ember in April 2006. Most recently, he was the President of Infineon Technologies North America Corp. in June 2002, with responsibility for all headquarters business activity and key customers.
- Don McMillan
Fun, that's what it's all about. You only live once, might as well enjoy it.
- Ray Stata
- Ali Adibi
- Larry Fromm
LARRY SNOW Larry Snow is the president of Snow Solutions Training & Consulting company and has been developing and teaching ESD courses since 1986. Larry retired from Lucent Technologies in North Andover, Massachusetts in July of 2001. His last assignment at Lucent was in the Learning & Performance Center as Senior Training Specialist and Manager for the Manufacturing, Quality, Diversity and EH&S Curriculums.
- Reza Raji
Reza Raji Founder, Chairman, President & Chief Operating Officer Reza founded iControl Networks in 2003 and led its early growth and success including the recent launch of the iControl Home Security 2.0 solution. Prior to iControl, Reza was the Director of Business Development at Echelon Corporation, a leading control and automation company with over 40 million smart devices deployed globally.
- Ronald Angner
Ronald Angner , Principal and Senior Vice President -Operations
- Dan Cronin
Dan Cronin currently serves as Vice President, Worldwide Design (WWD) for Freescale Semiconductor's Networking & Computing Systems Group. Dan was promoted to this role in November 2006. Dan's career at Motorola and Freescale began in 1994 when he joined the Motorola Paging group in Boynton Beach, Florida, to work on the MCORE microcontroller and Hawk DSP programs.
- Ronald E. Barr
Ronald E. Barr is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught since 1978. He previously taught at Texas A&M University. He received both his BS (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering) degrees from Marquette University in 1969 and 1975, respectively. He spent two years in military service at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
- Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
- Dave Bernhardt
Dave has extensive experience in the areas of sales, information technology, and management. Starting his career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force his management skills and expertise enabled him to specialize in turning around troubled organizations and earned him recognition as Best in the Air Force as well as many outstanding unit awards. Following his Air Force career, Dave entered the field of Information Technology working for several high-tech companies.
- Dane Collins
Dane Collins Dane Collins has many years of industry experience, having managed both development and operations groups at EEsof, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, and High Level Design Systems (HLD). He earned his BSEE in 1983 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and began his career as a microwave circuit designer at General Dynamics.
- Christian Bernadotte
CHRISTIAN BERNADOTTE Mr. Bernadotte represented McKinsey & Company in Europe and the United States from 1979 to 1986, assisting clients in operating performance improvement, reduction of costs, and development of new products and markets. Clients included major corporations in the manufacturing, aerospace and public sectors.
- Bradley A. Forrest
- Kevin Efrusy
Kevin joined Accel in 2003. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP/SaaS pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as the first CEO of IronPlanet , an online marketplace for heavy equipment with current annual gross sales over $200M.
- B.S.E.E. Utah
B.S.E.E. Utah 1959
- B.S.E.E. Illinois
B.S.E.E. Illinois Institute of Technology, 1962
- Bill Elmore
In creating Foundation Capital in 1995, Bill was merely continuing his long history of building strong organizations from the inside. In addition to Venafi, Bill is currently serving on the board of directors for Onyx Software (ONXS), Wind River Systems (WIND), Atheros Communications, MarkMonitor, Packet Design, TeaLeaf Technology, Vernier Networks, Wherenet, Biz360, UxComm, SOLARFLARE Communications, SpringCM™, Quartics and Ambient Software.
- Phillip J. Salsbury
Phillip J. Salsbury , Ph.D. Dr. Phillip J. Salsbury is a veteran of the semiconductor industry with over thirty-five years of technical and management experience. Dr. Salsbury is the founder, CTO, and later president and CEO of SEEQ Technology, a non-volatile memory and Ethernet IC company (acquired in 1999 by LSI Logic).
- Joe Caruso
Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. Earlier in his career, Joe worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc . , and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation.
- Randy Englund
Randy Englund is co-author of Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: the Quest to Manage Project Management (Jossey-Bass, 1997). He learned most of his lessons as a project manager at Hewlett-Packard and General Electric. He now provides coaching to management and teams about their project management culture. Contact him at englundr@pacbell.net . Building the Successful Project
- Jeff Schlageter
JEFF SCHLAGETER , is the President of Project Acceleration, and a Consulting Partner with Quality Rapid Product Development. Jeff also is an instructor of Program Management at UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Extension, and a co-instructor at UC Berkeley Extension, and Stanford University Continuing Studies.
- Greg Erman
Greg Erman , president and CEO of MarketSoft Corporation, a provider of enterprise marketing solutions, has raised $70M in VC funding and built his company to help organizations connect marketing activity with sales results. Previously, Erman founded and served as president and CEO of Waypoint Software Corporation, a B2B e-commerce company, which he later sold to Open Market, Inc. Erman earned BSEE and MBA degrees from Rutgers University and serves on several boards of directors.
- Brian Fortenbery
Brian Fortenbery has been with EPRI Solutions for 10 years and currently serves as an engineering manager. Mr. Fortenbery manages power quality and system compatibility projects for the EPRI Solutions, Inc. as well as managing the application projects group for EPRI Solutions. He is responsible for field demonstrations of emerging technologies such as flywheel -based UPSs, fuel cells for power quality mitigation, and ultracapacitor ride-through systems.
- Nevin Panjwani
I am down to earth, a midwestern guy at heart, but with worldly dreams and aspirations. I'm in LA because I'm a musician, model/actor trying to make it like everyone else here in the industry (check out my website: www.nevin.cc).; I am creative with a very imaginitive sense of humor and I like to joke around a lot, but I can be serious when I need to. I am well traveled, mostly through Europe, but also in South America.
- Hassan Ahmed
Hassan Ahmed , Ph.D., chief executive officer and chairman As chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman, Hassan Ahmed is responsible for the strategic direction and management of the company. Prior to joining Sonus Networks as president and CEO in 1998, Dr. Ahmed was executive vice president and general manager of Ascend Communications’ Core Systems Division, which grew under his direction to a $1 billion business.
- Jordan Selburn
Jordan Selburn ( Logic NVM 2007 Panel Moderator ) Principal Analyst, Semiconductor Design iSuppli Corporation
- Yoav Wechsler
Yoav Wechsler , with over 24 years of R&D management experience leads the Engineering organization at Atrica Inc. Mr Wechsler comes to Atrica from Corrigent Systems where he held the position of VP Research and Development for five years. He has also held senior level R&D positions at One Path Networks, ADC Teledata Telecommunications and Scitex. Mr. Wechsler received BSEE & MSEE of Electronic Engineer from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology both with Cum Laude.
- Joseph Borges
An abnormal physic dreamer with an odd point of view and a strange sense of humor and a variety of interesting sexual fetishes.
- Javed Patel
Mr. Patel joined Sierra Monolithics as President and CEO in October, 2006. Most recently he was with Quake Technologies, a 10Gb Ethernet semiconductor company, which was acquired by AMCC. Prior to Quake Technologies, he spent several years in senior management positions at ANADIGICS, Tropian, and WJ Communications addressing wireless handset and infrastructure markets, as well as optical communication and CATV markets.
- Chris
good times.
- John M. Cioffi
John Cioffi , Stanford University John M. Cioffi has been on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University since 1986 and was appointed to the Hitachi America Professorship in 2002. John was the recipient of the 2006 Marconi Award recognizing his seminal contributions to communication technology. John’s research interests focus on high-performance digital transmission; specifically modem design, signal processing, and coding.