Dr. Robert W. Brodersen - Founder, Chairman

Dr. Brodersen recently retired as Professor Emeritus in EECS at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the EECS faculty in 1976, teaching and researching in the area of Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI) and Speech Processing. He has numerous awards from the IEEE and other organizations, including the IEE Solid-State Circuits Society Award for "contributions to the design of integrated circuits for signal processing systems". He was also recognized as one of the top 10 contributors in the history of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference.

Dr. Brodersen was a co-founder of Atheros Communications and SiBEAM.

Dr. Tim A. Williams - Founder, Board Member

Dr. Williams began his professional career at Motorola, where he spent 14 years designing telecom, cellular, and networking integrated circuits and systems. Dr. Williams has founded and served as CTO or CEO of several startup companies over the past 18 years, three of which were successfully sold of went public. They include: Wireless Access, Picazo Communications, Atheros Communications, SiBEAM, DoceoTech, and BitRail.

Dr. Chen Chang - Founder, CEO

Dr. Chang is a leading expert in large scale VLSI design automation and computer architecture. Dr. Chang was the principal designer of the BEE, the BEE2, and BEE3 systems. Dr. Chang holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. John Wawrzynek - Founder, Chief Scientist

Dr. Wawrzynek is a professor of EECS at the University of California, Berkeley. He is head of the Berkeley Reconfigurable Architectures, Software, and Systems (Brass) group, and was a principal contributor to the BEE and RAMP projects.

Dr. Kevin Camera - Director of Engineering

Dr. Camera received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. As a graduate student, he studied under Prof. Robert W. Brodersen at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, and developed an integrated runtime debugging architecture for FPGA-based computing systems as part of his doctorate research. He currently specializes in system implementations and rapid design methodologies for programmable hardware computing systems.

Joseph Rothman - Senior VP of Marketing and Business Development

Mr. Rothman holds a master of science and a bachelor of science degrees in engineering from Columbia University and a master of business administration degree from Santa Clara University. In 1992, Mr. Rothman founded and served as chief executive officer of CARDtools Systems, one of the first electronic system level (ESL) companies. Earlier in his career, he worked at Ready Systems, Hewlett Packard and GE in product and marketing management positions. Most recently, he has held positions atProDesign as senior vice president of US Business Operations and EVE as senior vice president of Business Development.