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United States

San Francisco, California, Us

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Miami, Fl, Us

Business advisor to multiple companies in Commercial IoT, Enterprise Data Center, IPTV Service Provider segment, Digital Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, and Semiconductor

Start-up in high-speed communication and next generation of intelligence-based interconnect.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Managed the transition and integration of Ikanos Communications into Qualcomm.

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Led the turnaround of Ikanos (NASDAQ: IKAN), a technology leader in end-to-end 1Gbps Broadband solutions. Focused on business strategy and new products, leadership and culture shift, engineering execution, and customer acquisition. • Expanded the TAM for Ikanos business by 50% through WAN-agnostic products for Home Gateways. This led to new business outside of Telcos with service providers such as Cablevision, Charter, and Vodafone.• Introduced first Ikanos Software products for Diagnostics and Analytics to help Service providers minimize truck-rolls (reducing OpEx), improve customer experience, increase ARPU through new services.• Established strategic partnership with Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), the leader in fiber-copper access equipment. ALU also took a large equity stake in Ikanos.• Strengthened balance sheet through cash management, a secondary offering, a private placement equity raise, and short-term debt.• Led the process for M&A, which resulted with Qualcomm acquiring the company in September 2015.

San Jose, California, Us

• Led Tilera, a leading multicore processor company, through its market emergence in 2007.• While navigating through an unprecedented economic environment, built a strong global business, compelling hardware and software product roadmap, and a strong balance sheet.• Following the launch of its second-generation processor family TILEPro, Tilera was recognized by the semiconductor industry and awarded the GSA Start-Up to Watch in 2008.• Raised over $75M of capital during the 2008-2010 time frames. Brought new financial and strategic investors into the company including, Tandberg, NTT Finance, Quanta Computer, Broadcom, Cisco, Samsung, Artis Capital, Westsummit Capital, and Comerica Bank.• Established Tilera as a global player with offices in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and China including opening an R&D center in Beijing in 2010. • Drove the company business and product strategy while acquiring a significant number of design-wins in core market segments of Networking, Security, Multimedia, and Cloud Computing. A large global sales network and ecosystem of partners were put in place in support of the business. Tilera revenue grew from zero to near profitability during this four-year period.• Two generations of multicore processors were envisioned, developed, and introduced. The 64-bit processor family, TILE-Gx™, spanning from 16 to 100 cores, was taken to market in 2011. Tilera’s strong brand and leadership products were well received and followed by the industry, investment community, and the press.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Newly formed business Group represented the company strategic direction towards software programmable platform with reconfigurable FPGA extensions. Position reported into the Xilinx CEO and accounted for about 25% of the company revenue.• Completed the integration of three global Xilinx Divisions: DSP, IP, Embedded Processing. The Group had locations in the U.S., Europe, India, AsiaPac, and Japan.• Formulated the business and product strategy for the Group. Licensing of the ARM™ core and product development led to the ultimate market introduction of the Xilinx ZYNQ™ Processing Platform, Zynq™-7000 SoC.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• A new business thrust for the company to leverage the core FPGA technology for use in Digital Signal Processing. The business unit included product development, marketing and specialist sales force with locations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.• Comprehensive business plan was put in place to significantly enhance the programmability of the end platform solution and thus broadening the Xilinx TAM through growing the user base to system and software developers. Drove the product roadmap that included Virtex4-SX and Virtex5-SX at the high end, and a low-cost Spartan-DSP introduced in early 2007. Theses products were positioned in the target markets of Wireless Base Stations, Medical Imaging, Defense applications, and video processing in Broadcast and Surveillance segments. The Xilinx DSP revenue in this period doubled.• Drove the investment and later acquisition of AccelChip, the leading provider of MATLAB® synthesis software tools for building DSP systems. Key partnerships were also put in place with Texas Instruments, MathWorks, Mentor Graphics, and Synplicity. • Established renewed and strong Xilinx presence in China, which resulted in significant design wins with top Wireless OEMs.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Responsible for global Strategy and Business Development for over a $1.5B dollar Wireless Chipset business, one of three businesses within Motorola Semiconductor. The focus of this role and the organization included, Strategic Marketing, Technology Strategy, Market Communications, Developer Relations, Partnerships & Acquisitions, Business Development and Carrier Relationships.• Completed the acquisition of XtremeSpectrum, a leading provider of Ultrawideband chipset in 2003. Took leadership responsibility for this emerging business, its integration within Motorola Semiconductor, and drove the industry standardization effort worldwide.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Responsible for nearly a $1B Wireless Chipset business. This included full P&L, product and market development responsibilities. The business included a team of over 800 people worldwide. Product portfolio comprised of Baseband Processors for all mobile wireless standards, Application Processors, Software and Tools, and Reference Platforms. Grew the Division revenues by 50% over the four-year period.• Laid out and executed the controversial strategy for licensing of the ARM® CPU for the DragonBall processors. This led to a Sector wide licensing of the ARM core and consummated the launch of a new series of processors, i.MX Applications Processors.• Led the definition, development, and launch of the first integrated 3G baseband and applications processor, MXC 3G Multicore Processor. This product later received the Microprocessor Report Analysts' Choice Award in 2005.• Developed market leadership strategies in emerging and non-traditional wireless embedded applications in local area connectivity, personal digital assistants (PDA’s), and location technology (GPS). Formulated and executed acquisition strategy of Digianswer, a leader in Bluetooth chipset, and IP licensing and partnership with SiRF for GPS.• Drove leadership 0.18 and 0.13 micron low-power CMOS Process and Memory Technology Roadmaps and Motorola’s first implementation of 300mm product strategy for the Wireless business. Established the foundry partnership for CMOS technologies with TSMC and UMC leading to Motorola Semiconductor Asset-Light strategy.• Member of the Board of Advisors of the StarCore Lucent-Motorola Joint Venture.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Responsible for making FLEX™ and ReFLEX™ Chipset Solutions available to the merchant market as a way of licensing these Motorola wireless technologies and to enable application development on wireless networks. Managed IC design, hardware and software development teams and worked with Semiconductor partners like Texas Instruments, Motorola Semiconductor, and Phillips Semiconductor among others to deliver chipsets to market. Key attributes of position were P&L responsibility, formulating vision, establishing partnerships, frequent communication with industry analysts and the press.• Increased profits from chipset sales by 20X.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Responsible for development of platform chipsets for Motorola Paging’s worldwide business. This was a new and unique approach to core technology development within Motorola Paging. Built the organization ground up, formulated the vision and strategy and delivered the first chipset in less than two years.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Responsible for numeric, low-end and mid-tier alpha paging products for the international markets including Japan, China, Singapore, Korea, etc. Managed a team of electrical, mechanical and software engineers and lead product development from definition to manufacturing. Position required Operational Product Management including production, cost reduction, and customer quality.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Responsible for numeric and alpha paging products development for the Japan market. Customers included NTT DoComo and the Japan NCC’s (New Common Carriers). Position required Operational Product Management including production, cost reduction, and customer quality.• Introduced the most successful paging product in Japan beating to market all five competitors leading to number one market share.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Digital IC design - Advanced Paging Platforms• Analog IC Design - Digital voice storage for a Private Paging Product• RF Engineer - Paging Products for the Japan market

Msee, Electrical Engineering

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

High School Diploma, Mathematics