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Dr. Bob Brodersen, Chairman, Co-Founder
As a leading scholar and successful wireless entrepreneur, Dr. Bob Brodersen serves as chairman of the board of directors for SiBEAM. Prior to joining SiBEAM, Dr. Brodersen was a founder and served as a technical advisor to Atheros Communications. In addition, Dr. Brodersen was instrumental in founding and leading, as co-director, the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, which is a research effort involving 10 companies, 60+ students and 6 faculty involved in all aspects of the design of highly integrated CMOS wireless systems. Since 1976, Dr. Brodersen has served on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is the John Whinnery Chair professor and co-scientific director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was co-recipient of the IEEE Morris K. Liebmann Award for Outstanding Emerging Technology. Among many other awards and honors, Professor Brodersen was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund, Sweden. Dr. Brodersen received his Ph.D. from MIT, his M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his B.S. in Mathematics and Electronics Engineering from the California State Polytechnic College in Pomona, California.
Dr. Forest Baskett, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Dr. Forest Baskett has served as a SiBEAM director since December 2004. Dr. Baskett has been a partner with New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm, since 1999. From 1986 to 1999 Dr. Baskett was with Silicon Graphics, Inc., a computing, visualization and storage company, where he served as senior vice president of research and development and chief technology officer. Dr. Baskett holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Rice University and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Adam Grosser, Partner, Foundation Capital
Adam Grosser has served as a SiBEAM director since May 2005. Adam Grosser is general partner at Foundation Capital, where he emphasizes investments on telecommunications and data communications. Prior to joining Foundation Capital, Adam was president of Excite@Home's Subscriber Networks division, where his responsibilities included residential and commercial broadband sales and marketing, customer care, integrated engineering, network and product operations. He was also founder, president and CEO of Catapult Entertainment, which he steered through its sale to Mpath Interactive, and subsequent IPO. Adam serves on the board of directors of several prominent communications companies.
Dr. Arati Prabhakar, General Partner, US Venture Partners
Arati Prabhakar joined U.S. Venture Partners in 2001 after 15 years of working with world-class engineers and scientists across many fields to brew new technologies. At USVP, her focus is fabless semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing opportunities. She serves on the boards of Arradiance, Kilopass, Kleer, Leadis Technology (NASDAQ: LDIS), Lightspeed Logic, Pivotal Systems, and SiBeam.
Arati was a program manager and then director of the Microelectronics Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1986 to 1993. At DARPA, she supported R&D in company and university labs in semiconductor manufacturing, imaging, optoelectronics and nanoelectronics. In 1993, President Clinton appointed Arati Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she led the 3,000 person staff until 1997. Arati then joined Raychem as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. She was subsequently Vice President and then President of Interval Research Corporation. Arati began her career as a Congressional fellow at the Office of Technology Assessment.
Arati serves on advisory committees for Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, and UC Santa Barbara. She is a member of the Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) board of the National Research Council. Arati received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. She received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology. Arati is a Fellow of the IEEE.
John LeMoncheck, President and Chief Executive Officer
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