Board of Directors

Davin Lee

Chief Executive Officer

Davin Lee has over 15 years of broad semiconductor experience and has successfully scaled several major businesses. Mr. Lee was the vice president and general manager of Intersil’s Consumer Power Products group, which markets high-performance power solutions for the consumer electronics market. Previously, Mr. Lee was vice president and general manager of the Industrial and Communications Products group and served two years as vice president of Intersil’s General Purpose Power Products group. He joined Intersil after the acquisition of Xicor, Inc., where he served as vice president of marketing. Mr. Lee came to Xicor from Altera Corporation, where he was strategic business manager. Prior to Altera, he spent seven years at National Semiconductor working in various sales and engineering roles. Mr. Lee holds a BSEE degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Dan A. Artusi

Dan A. Artusi has more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor and communications industries. He most recently served as president, CEO and board member of Conexant Systems, a communications solutions semiconductor company. Previously, he was chairman and CEO of Coldwatt, a provider of power supplies for the communications and computing industries. He also served as president, CEO and director of Silicon Laboratories, a leading developer of mixed signal integrated circuits. He spent more than 20 years in various senior management roles at Motorola Semiconductor. His accomplishments at Motorola include pioneering work to bring to market new RF technologies, such as LDMOS power devices that today are an industry standard. Mr. Artusi currently serves as a board member of Lantiq, Atheros Communications, Energy Micro AS, and Qspeed Semiconductor. Mr. Artusi attended the Instituto Tecnologico in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Anthony J. Ley

Anthony J. Ley served as Harmonic’s president and chief executive officer from November 1988 to May 2006 and as chairman of the Board of Directors from 1995 until June 2008. Following his retirement as president and chief executive officer of Harmonic, Mr. Ley was chief executive officer of CollabRx, Inc., a privately-held biotech services company from December 2007 to December 2008. From 1963 to 1987, Mr. Ley was employed at Schlumberger Limited, both in Europe and the U.S., holding various senior business management and research and development positions, most recently as vice president, Research and Engineering at Fairchild Semiconductor/Schlumberger in Palo Alto. Mr. Ley holds an M.A. in Mechanical Sciences from the University of Cambridge, an S.M.E.E. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is named as an inventor on 29 patents, is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Doug Mackenzie

Doug Mackenzie joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1989, and became a Partner in 1992. Since joining KPCB, Doug has focused his investment activities in the software sector, including enterprise applications, entertainment and educational software, and internet applications, tools and services. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Marimba (public) and E.piphany (public), as well as the following private companies: Instant802 Networks, WeddingChannel (formerly Della.com) and Omniva Policy Systems (formerly Disappearing Inc.). Previously, Doug had been either a Director of, or actively involved with KPCB’s investments in: Pivotal Corporation (public), HomeGrocer.com (public, acquired by Webvan), Gigabeat (acquired by Napster), Accept.com (acquired by Amazon.com), Collabra Software (acquired by Netscape), Crystal Dynamics (acquired by Eidos), Diamond Lane Communications (acquired by Nokia), Edmark (public, acquired by IBM), Individual (public), On Technology (public), Preview Travel (public), Shiva (public) and Visio Corporation (public, acquired by Microsoft). He has also led KPCB’s investments in Kibu, Zagat’s, UPromise, iVillage (public), MMC Networks (public), and Intraware (public). In addition, he serves as co-Chairman of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund, as a Board member of Pacific Community Ventures and the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, as a Trustee of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation (USSTF), and he is on the faculty at the Stanford School of Engineering. Doug holds a Bachelor’s in Economics and a Master’s in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard.

John Oxaal

At Sevin Rosen Funds, John focuses in areas of imaging, computing, photonics, and RF communications. Before joining Sevin Rosen in 1999, John co-founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Volumetrics Medical Imaging and was on the founding team of the Digital Signal Processing Division of Analog Devices. John holds several patents in the field of real-time volumetric ultrasound imaging. In addition to continuing to serve on Volumetrics board, John serves on the boards of Ethertronics, Luminescent, Luxtera, Tellicent, and Scintera.

Andy Rappaport

Andy joined August Capital in 1996 and brings technology and market experience in such areas as open-source software, broadband communications, semiconductors, and computer systems. He has more than 15 years of experience as a founder, investor, and/or director of venture-backed start-ups, and has served on more than 30 public and private company boards.Prior to joining August Capital, Andy was involved in the formation and success of more than a dozen venture capital-backed start-ups, including Actel, MMC Networks, Silicon Architects (acquired by Synopsys), Transmeta, and Viewlogic.In addition, Andy was president of The Technology Research Group (TRG), a Boston-based strategy consulting firm he founded in 1984. Through TRG, he provided business-strategy counsel to senior executives at many of the largest electronics companies around the world, including Alcatel, AT&T, EDS, IBM, and Intel.Before starting TRG, Andy was Senior Editor of EDN Magazine; a research physicist with Panametrics, Inc.; and founder and president of his own consumer-electronics company. He was also a founder of the Massachusetts Center for Technology Growth, a private economic-development organization; and a director of the Massachusetts Microelectronics Center. Andy is an often-cited authority on changing technologies and markets and has written and lectured extensively on the evolving structures of semiconductor, computer, and telecommunications industries. He wrote “The Computerless Computer Company,” which won the McKinsey award for Article of the Year in the Harvard Business Review. Andy attended Princeton University and holds a U.S. patent.

Arthur Reidel

For 25 years Art Reidel has helped build and scale profitable businesses in the electronic design automation, pharmaceutical software, semiconductor, and communications industries. He was most recently chief executive officer of Scintera from Feb. 2006 to Jan. 2011 where he successfully transitioned the company into the wireless infrastructure market and delivered groundbreaking new semiconductor RF products. Art continues to serve on the Scintera Board of Directors. Prior to Scintera, he was co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Pharsight Corporation (now part of Tripos International), the leader in modeling and simulation for pharmaceutical development, and he led its IPO in August 2000. Art has held executive positions with technology-based companies Sunrise Test Systems (acquired by Viewlogic Systems), where he served as its president and chief executive officer; Weitek; Interactive Training Systems, and Schlumberger Computer-Aided Systems. In addition to his management roles, Art is well connected to the investment community. Most recently, Art was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he provided management assistance to portfolio companies and was responsible for several new investments. He earlier served as a general partner at ABS Venture Limited Partnerships, where he invested in and was a director of numerous technology-based companies. Art has a BS in Mathematics from MIT.

Elton B. Sherwin

Elton Sherwin is a Senior Managing Director of Ridgewood Capital and founded the Ridgewood Capital Palo Alto office in 1999. Prior to joining Ridgewood, Mr. Sherwin established the West Coast office of Motorola Ventures. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sherwin spent twenty years at IBM and Motorola where the products he developed won numerous awards. The U.S. patent Office has granted him eight patents. Mr. Sherwin is currently working on his second book, Addicted to Energy—How to Save our Economy and Our Climate. His first book, The Silicon Valley Way, is used by entrepreneurs and university programs around the world. Mr. Sherwin received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Abhijit G. Shanbhag

Founder and CTO Emeritus

Dr. Shanbhag has over 10 years experience in advanced communication systems architectures and algorithms. Previously, Dr. Shanbhag held leadership positions at QUALCOMM and Ericsson in the design of wireless base stations and the development of IS-2000 Physical Layer Standards. Previous to co-founding Scintera Networks, Dr. Shanbhag was a Group Leader at Morphics Technology (acquired by Infineon), working on reconfigurable signal processing architectures. He has several publications in major international journals and conference proceedings and holds several patents in communications systems and signal processing. Dr. Shanbhag serves on the Advisory Board of the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. Dr. Shanbhag holds a PhD from University of Southern California and a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, all in Electrical Engineering.