John LeMoncheck
President and Chief Executive Officer

A seasoned electronics executive, LeMoncheck hails from Silicon Image where he was Vice President of the company's Consumer Electronics and PC/Display business. In that role, LeMoncheck was responsible for all product, market and business strategy development and execution and led the company’s efforts to promote worldwide adoption of HDMI. Prior to Silicon Image, LeMoncheck was vice president of software and systems engineering for TeraLogic (purchased by Zoran), directing all platform and software implementations for TeraLogic's digital television solutions. He also ran the customer support and professional service organizations, including the development of key design wins at a number of top-tier consumer electronics manufacturers. Prior to joining TeraLogic, LeMoncheck was a member of the founding team at Arithmos, Inc (purchased by ST Microelectronics). where he was vice president of engineering and developed Arithmos' line of display processors targeted at the flat panel market. In the past, LeMoncheck also directed The LEGO Company's West Coast design center, which was focused on high-tech toys, including the successful MINDSTORMS product line. Earlier in his career, LeMoncheck held staff engineering and design engineering positions at Synaptics, Inc. and NCR Corporation, respectively. LeMoncheck is an active member of the Society for Information Display, having helped form the group's Electronic Device subcommittee. LeMoncheck attended U.C. San Diego and spent several years researching VLSI for imaging and pattern recognition applications during his graduate studies at Caltech.

Chinh Doan
Vice President, RF & Analog Design, Co-Founder

Chinh Doan led the research and development effort at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) from 1999 until the founding of SiBEAM in December 2004, exploring the limits of standard digital bulk-CMOS technology for use at frequencies above 20GHz, focusing on 60GHz. In February 2005, Doan was awarded the Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at ISSCC 2004 for co-developing a modeling approach for devices up to 65 GHz and for demonstrating the world’s first CMOS amplifiers beyond 30GHz. Prior to his work at the BWRC, Doan worked as an engineer for Teradyne in their Analog Design Group and at Agilent Technologies as a Microwave Design Engineer. Doan received a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Sohrab Emami
Chief Architect, Co-Founder

Bringing 10 years of startup and wireless R&D leadership, Sohrab Emami focused 5 years of research and development at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) on the design and modeling of 60 GHz CMOS transceiver circuits for high data rate wireless applications, prior to co-founding SiBEAM. Along with Doan, Emami was awarded the Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at ISSCC 2004 for co-developing a modeling approach for devices up to 65 GHz and for demonstrating the world's first CMOS amplifiers beyond 30 GHz. For breakthrough work on wireless systems, Emami was also awarded the Hitachi-UC Berkeley Management of Technology Fellowship in 2003. Prior to his work at the BWRC, Emami was co-founder of another startup company, KARA-Systems, Inc. where he was responsible for development of control systems and instrumentation utilized in industrial markets. Emami received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

Dr. Jeffrey M. Gilbert
Chief Technical Officer

Bringing almost two decades of experience in wireless communications, networking, real-time image and signal processing, and integrated circuit design, Dr. Jeffrey M. Gilbert is responsible for SiBEAM's overall technical vision and core technology research and development. Prior to joining SiBEAM, Dr. Gilbert was the director of algorithms and architecture at Atheros Communications, a developer of wireless semiconductors. During his five year tenure at Atheros, Jeff led the development of Atheros' 802.11n, 802.11g, eXtended Range (XR), and Smart Antenna technologies, and managed the department responsible for the digital signal processing algorithms and various MAC & software algorithms. Prior to joining Atheros, Dr. Gilbert was the director of engineering at the Teratech Corporation, a start-up developing highly portable PC-based medical ultrasound imagers. Dr. Gilbert received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley, M.Phil. in Computer Speech and Language Processing from Cambridge University, and B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard College.

John Marshall
Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Co-Founder
President, WirelessHD, LLC

Bringing ten years leadership of startup and Fortune 500 business operations, Marshall is responsible for SiBEAM's product and market vision and manages marketing, business development and sales. Since SiBEAM’s inception, Marshall also led the formation of the  WirelessHD™ special interest group focusing on A/V networking and currently serves as the president of WirelessHD, LLC. Prior to joining SiBEAM, Marshall served as vice president of marketing and business development at 2Wire, Inc., a leading broadband services platform developer, supporting its growth from first product to market leadership on over $150M in worldwide revenue. Prior to 2Wire, Marshall co-founded 3Com's Wireless & Home Networking Division, capturing market leadership for its first product line in its first year. At 3Com prior, Marshall led emerging market development in ICE markets (information, communications, entertainment) from $40M to $400M revenue. Prior to 3Com, Marshall worked for a marketing consultancy advising technology companies on market entry strategy, segmentation, pricing, and competitive analysis. In addition to his work at SiBEAM, Marshall has served on the advisory board of Ruckus Wireless, as president of the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA), the board of USC's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) and the Association for Interactive Media (AIM). Marshall holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

George Palmer
Vice President of Operations

Mr. Palmer brings over 30 years of semiconductor operations, development and product management experience. Most recently, Mr. Palmer worked as Vice President of Operations at PortalPlayer, Inc., most notable for providing music player chip controllers for Apple's iPod products and recently acquired by NVIDIA. Prior to that, Mr. Palmer was Vice President of Operations and Manufacturing at wireless company Bermai, Inc., and earlier at Quantum3D, Inc., as VP of Operations and Product Management. Before working with startup companies, Mr. Palmer worked 23 years at National Semiconductor and Fairchild Semiconductor managing operations, development and marketing for high volume product lines including PC Products, Ethernet Systems, Digital Video and Microprocessors. Mr. Palmer received his degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Albert Scalise
Vice President, Systems and Software Engineering

Mr. Scalise joined SiBEAM with over 22 years of experience in IC Design, system and software development and product management. Scalise came from Silicon Image where he was Director of the IC Design Engineering team developing HDMI devices for consumer electronics products and is one of the inventors of HDMI. Scalise came to Silicon Image through an acquisition of DVDO where he was a Principal Engineer architecting and designing digital video processing ASICs. He spent ten years at Apple Computer as a Lead Design Engineer where he was nominated for the prestigious CEO Technical Award for research and development in recognition of his groundbreaking work on the Power Macintosh. He holds nine U.S. patents and has a B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the California State Polytechnic University Pomona.

Dr. C. Bernard Shung
Vice President, IC Engineering, Co-Founder

Bringing 20 years of academic and industrial experience in digital communications and networking, Dr. Shung is responsible for high-speed DSP circuits implementation, digital MAC/SoC development and IC integration in the SiBEAM engineering team. Prior to co-founding SiBEAM, he was a Director of Engineering at Broadcom working on highly integrated Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet network switching products. He joined Allayer Communications and led the engineering effort that resulted in Broadcom acquisition in 2000. He was with the faculty of the Dept of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, from 1990 to 1997 where he conducted research on VLSI design for ATM switching and wireless baseband communications. From 1991 to 1994 he was the Chairman of the department, and in 1997, he was promoted to a full Professor. From 1994 to 1995, he took a sabbatical leave from NCTU to visit Qualcomm Inc. From 1988 to 1990, he was with IBM Almaden Research Center where he worked on IC designs for PRML read channels and pattern recognition. Dr. Shung received a NCTU Outstanding Teaching Award in 1994, and he was with the ISSCC program committee from 1999 to 2004, and a guest editor of IEEE Communications Magazine from 2003 to 2004. Dr. Shung received his BSEE from National Taiwan University, and MS and Ph.D. degree in EECS from University of California, Berkeley.

David Yao
Vice President of Sales, Asia-Pacific Region

Yao has extensive high-tech semiconductor sales and product management expertise. He joins SiBEAM from Silicon Image, where he was Vice President of Field Sales for the Asia Pacific and North America regions. His experience in leading worldwide sales initiatives, identifying and developing new growth opportunities, and strong track record in achieving sales results will be invaluable for SiBEAM's success. As Vice President for Sales, Yao is responsible for all sales activity in the Asia Pacific region which includes the opening of new sales offices in Asia and the growth and management of the Asia Pacific sales team and SiBEAM distributors.

Prior to joining Silicon Image, Yao was the director of sales in Japan for Trident Microsystems where he managed all OEM sales activities for major clients including Sony, NEC and IBM. Before Trident, Yao served as product marketing manager for the Graphics Chipset Division at Intel Corp. where he led product road-map developments and formulated product strategies for its mobile products. Yao holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University and speaks fluent Mandarin and English.