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Nersi Nazari, President and CEO
Nersi Nazari is a veteran semiconductor professional with over 20 years of experience in design, management, business development and venture funding in the communications industry. He holds a doctorate in EE from the University of Colorado and has been awarded eight US patents.
Nersi served in R&D positions at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Seagate Technology, prior to joining GEC Plessey Semiconductor as Chief Technologist in 1994. Nersi Nazari joined Marvell Semiconductor in 1997 as the founding VP of Signal Processing Technology. At Marvell, he introduced the company’s first Trellis Coded Modulation-based read channel chip, the first SOC solution as well as the industry’s first sub-two Watt 1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet chip. These products were key to the company’s successful IPO in June 2000 and have since grown to over $1 billion in annual revenue.
Sanjay Kasturia, Co-Founder, CTO & Chairman
Sanjay Kasturia has more than 20 years of experience in the communications industry. Sanjay is currently editor-in-chief for the IEEE task force developing the Energy Efficient Ethernet standard. Before starting Teranetics, Sanjay co-founded Airgo Networks, now a part of Qualcomm, which developed wireless LAN ICs that significantly increased the range and reliability of networks using multi-antenna signal processing technology.
Sanjay has previously served as Vice President Advanced Technology at Raychem's Telecommunications, Energy and Industrial Division, focusing on telecommunications and access network electronics. Before Raychem, Sanjay was at Lucent Technologies as R&D Director for its Global Wireless Products Group and earlier as head of Wireless Technology Research for Bell Laboratories. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Sanjay is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Sridhar Begur, Vice President, Engineering
Sridhar Begur brings more than 20 years of experience in the design of complex integrated circuits and has contributed a number of successful products including multimedia processors for PCs and the industry’s first MIMO based wireless LAN (802.11 a/b/g) ASIC. Prior to Teranetics, Sridhar worked at Airgo Networks leading their WLAN ASIC development.
Before Airgo, Sridhar held senior positions at Diamond Multimedia, Media Vision, Chips and Technologies, HP and Intel where he managed a variety of IC designs. He has seven patents issued or pending. Sridhar holds a B.S. from Bangalore University and a M.S. from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, both in Electrical Engineering.
Rahul Chopra, Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer,
Vice President, Business Development & Operations
Rahul Chopra brings proven experience in developing product and marketing strategies for new products including the Total Control 1000 platform at USR/3COM, the voice over packet module for the Meridian family of products from Nortel, and OPS-INE for SONET at Bellcore. Prior to Teranetics, Rahul led Business Development at Iospan Wireless, a premier broadband wireless technology company, and was instrumental in its sale to Intel.
Rahul earlier led 3COM's entry into multi-service platforms with the Total Control family of products. Rahul also led Mergers and Acquisitions teams for the Carrier line of business at 3COM. Prior to 3COM, Rahul held senior product management and engineering positions at Nortel Networks, GTE, and Bellcore. Rahul has authored two patents and holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Clemson University.
Jon Drake, Vice President, Operations
Jon Drake brings more than 16 years of leadership experience in building supplier relationships and managing supply chains in the fabless semiconductor industry. He holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Chemistry from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Prior to Teranetics, Jon held senior operations management positions at both LSI Corporation and C-Cube Microsystems.
Most recently at LSI, he was a Senior Director in the Supply Chain Management organization. At LSI, Jon very successfully directed the supply chain execution for an MP3 Controller chip which reached over 1Mu in weekly shipments and added over $50M in annual revenue to the company. At C-Cube Microsystems, Jon built up the Supply Chain Operations organization from an early stage, through rapid business growth, to fully support high volume product manufacturing of various digital video processor products. Earlier, he held various operations management positions with ADAC Laboratories, Heraeus Lasersonics, and Solectron.
John Dring, Senior Director, Architecture and Applications
John Dring has more than 15 years of experience in bringing complex silicon based products to market by leveraging his unique knowledge and experience in silicon, signal processing, and software. John is an expert at architecting highly complicated algorithms in a cost and power efficient manner that enables widespread use of cutting edge technology. Previously at Intel, John was the key architect involved in bringing WiMAX technology to market by architecting and designing Intel’s first commercially available WiMAX silicon product.
John earlier led the development of key parts of the modem design at Iospan Wireless, helping to develop the first MIMO OFDM PHY for wireless metropolitan area access. Prior to Iospan Wireless, John held key positions at Stanford Telecom and FMC. John has authored several patents and has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
Thomas Mailhot, Senior Director, Worldwide Sales
Thomas Mailhot comes to Teranetics with more than 20 years of sales management experience with Silicon Valley semiconductor companies. Most recently, he was western regional director of MSD server sales and business development for Spansion. His previous experience includes sales management positions with SanDisk, IDT, Norcomp, and Samsung Semiconductor. He holds a BS in Economics from Santa Clara University.
Jose Tellado, Co-Founder and Vice President, Systems Engineering
Jose Tellado is an expert in broadband communication systems specializing in high performance transceiver design and implementation. Jose was editor of the PCS section of the 10GBASE-T standard. Prior to Teranetics, Jose was the Modem Architect at Intel’s Broadband Wireless Access group. As an employee-founder and Director of Technology at Iospan Wireless, Jose was the chief designer of the innovative MIMO-OFDM AirBurst™ technology at Iospan (acquired by Intel).
Earlier, while at Stanford University, Jose proposed new advanced methods for Multi-carrier Modulation (DMT/OFDM) in the areas of Peak to Average Power Ratio Reduction and Multi-user Transmit Optimization. Jose has also consulted for Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Wireless group and Globalstar in the areas of Wireless LAN and Low-Orbit Satellite cellular systems respectively. He is the author of 15 IEEE publications, 10 standards contributions and the book “Multi-carrier Modulation with Low PAR: Applications to DSL and Wireless" published by Kluwer. Jose holds MS. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.