Dave Corbin Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Orizon partners help startup leaders step back from their daily hurdles to plan for what lies over the horizon. The intense focus on near term survival often obscures how current decisions align - or not align - with long term success. Our experience as startup leaders with a successful history of funding, growing, and successfully exiting companies helps us sharpen your startup’s vision to clearly define the path over the horizon. Orizon has distilled this experience into a business method that connects near term decisions to the founders’ long term vision. We partner with the founder/CEO to define a tangible definition of the future and create a path that includes funding strategies, sales approach, partnering, and resource planning

San Mateo California

San Francisco Bay Area

Consulting services for developing companies. Development of funding strategies, technology evaluation, product definition and sales pitches. Also provide due diligence services for startup companies and venture capital funds.

Developed and implemented a product and business strategy that re-positioned the company for sale. Successfully merged NanoGram with Teijin Limited of Japan. NanoGram continues to develop and sell nano-particle Silicon Ink products to the Solar and Display industries

Re-started and re- focused a unique microprocessor company aimed at real time video processing for HDTV. Extensive rebuild of business strategy, funding, customer acquisition, and key custom compilers and applications software.

Built the team, funding, technology and business strategy for a unique computer cooling technology licensed from Stanford.

Provided start-up management to scale from first employee to 20 researchers and engineers. Built a team to transition nano particle ink research from university to industrial development.

Managed the transition of Silicon Light Machines' team and business to Cypress Semiconductor

Managed MEMs technology and business development from early stage funding through the sale of the company to Cypress Semiconductor. Conceived and implemented a high profile international license to SONY. Developed and led a strong team with expertise in MEMS, Lasers, Displays, Printing and Optics.

Expanded the technology licensing and product marketing to new areas of printers and video games after the merger of MIPS and SGI.

Developed, sold and supported technology licensing business of microprocessor IP. Created extensive international marketing and technology partnership networks for growth in hardware and software licensing. Managed complex international relationships.

Product and test engineering group management. Extensive cross functional team leadership. Technology and manufacturing offshore transfers.

Bs, Ms Ee, Semiconductors

Stanford Executive Institute, General Management