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| Gary Steele |
Gary has a degree in Electronics from the University of Southampton, which pioneered research into Optoelectronics & Fiberoptic communications in the UK. Following 10 years in the ASIC industry, Gary was co-founder & CEO of the UK's first Fabless chip Company, Acapella Ltd., in 1990. Acapella successfully introduced the use of mixed-signal CMOS into single-fiber communications links, and was sold to Semtech of the US.
In 1995 Gary co-founded and led Microcosm Communications Ltd., with a focus this time on mainstream dual-fiber links. Again pioneering the use of low-cost CMOS, Microcosm sold its 155Mbps, 622Mbps and 1.25Gbps chipsets to virtually every Fiberoptic Module OEM in the world. Following 2 Venture Capital rounds, in 1998 and 1999, the Company was sold to Conexant Systems Inc. of the US for approx. $200m, netting the original investors around a 20x return.
After 2 years of retirement Gary was eager to begin a new challenge, and co-founded Nanotech Semiconductor Ltd. in 2003 with several ex-Microcosm-ites. |
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| Richard Irving |
| Based in Silicon Valley, Richard co-founded Pond in 1997 and brings twenty-five years' experience in venture capital, business management, marketing and engineering in technology companies including AT&T Bell Labs, AMD, Brooktree, and Irving International. Starting as a chip designer at Bell Labs, and strategic marketing manager at AMD, Richard later managed three business units at Brooktree with full P&L responsibility both prior to and following the company's initial public offering. These grew from as small as $1M up to $90M. Richard has been involved in numerous IPOs, acquisitions, and private financings. Richard serves as Director of Transitive, picoChip, Gigle, Acco and Nanotech. Richard has a B.Sc. (1st Class Hons.) and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Manchester University. |
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| Brian Long |
Brian Long founded Parthus Technologies PLC in 1993 and served as its CEO for nine years until 2002. During that time he led the successful Initial Public Offering of the company on both the LSE and NASDAQ stock markets. In 2002 he completed the successful merger of the company with the digital signal processing division of DSP Group to form Ceva Inc the leading licensor of DSP technology in the industry. He serves as a director on the Ceva BOD and is a member of the company strategy committee.
He has more than 20years experience in the Semiconductor industry. Prior to founding Parthus he was chief design engineer with AT&T and later held corporate responsibility for mixed-signal technology developments at Digital Equipment Corporation. Brian is the named inventor on a number of US and European IC patents.
He is currently on the board of the National Microelectronics Research Centre Ireland, and is a member of the Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology. He was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year for technology in 2000. He holds an undergraduate and masters degree in Electronic Engineering from Trinity College Dublin.
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