MANAGEMENT TEAM
Scott Becker: President & CEO

Scott Becker
Scott spent 13 years as co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, and board member of Artisan Components, a semiconductor IP company that was acquired by ARM Holdings, Incorporated in December, 2004 for approximately $1 billion. Prior to founding Artisan Components, Scott joined Mentor Graphics as Circuit Design Manager, through its acquisition of Silicon Compilers Systems Corporation. He also held various circuit design engineer positions at Silicon Compilers Systems and Signetics Corporations. Scott has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Dhrumil Gandhi: Chief Operating Officer

Dhrumil Gandhi
Prior to Artisan Components, Dhrumil was Senior Manager for Advanced ASIC Design Systems for Mentor Graphics. He joined Mentor Graphics as Senior Manager of the Library Group, which was a result of an acquisition of Silicon Compilers Systems Corporation. He also held various management and technical positions at Silicon Compilers Systems and Intel Corporation. Dhrumil has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology.
Peter Calverley: Chief Financial Officer

Peter Calverley
For the past 10 years he has focused on financial management for pre-IPO and early-stage companies, most recently running his own private consulting practice and previously serving as COO for FamilyPass, Inc.
Before joining FamilyPass, Peter was CFO of CoWare, Inc. He was instrumental in leading several rounds of equity financing from a combination of venture capital and corporate sources, in securing low cost venture debt lines, leading the negotiation and integration of two significant acquisitions and taking a significant role in negotiating several multi-year customer agreements.
Earlier in his career, Peter held executive business finance positions with several larger technology companies including Cadence Design Systems, UB Networks (originally Ungermann-Bass), ROLM Systems and Nortel. He holds an MBA in Finance from St. Marys College of California and a BA in Commerce/Social Science from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
Neal Carney: Vice President of Marketing & Business Development

Neal Carney
Neal received his B.S. degree in Physics and his M.B.A from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Mike Smayling: Senior Vice President, Product Technology

Mike Smayling
Prior to joining Tela, he was the CTO of the Maydan Technology Center at Applied Materials where he developed advanced processes for sub-45nm technology nodes. Before moving to Silicon Valley with Applied, he was a TI Fellow at Texas Instruments responsible for DRAM, Flash, and mixed-signal technology development and productization. He holds over 150 U.S. patents, and has more than 50 publications/presentations covering DFM, MOS devices, processes, Flash memory, LDMOS transistors, photolithography, and lasers. He was a lecturer at Rice University for over 10 years while at TI.
He received a BS degree from the University of Minnesota, and MS and PhD degrees from Rice University, all in electrical engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and represented TI and Applied at SRC.
Rajiv Bhateja: Vice President, Power Optimization Products

Rajiv Bhateja
Liz Stewart: Vice President, General Counsel

Liz Stewart
Liz Stewart has spent her career representing technology companies in Silicon Valley. In her role as Vice President, General Counsel, she is responsible for overseeing all legal matters of Tela including intellectual property, licensing, commercial transactions and management of outside counsel.
Prior to joining Tela, she held in-house positions including Assistant General Counsel of Artisan Components and a position with NEC Electronics, Inc. She also represented public and private technology companies for a number of years with her own firm. Previously, she was a member of the Technology Transactions Group of Cooley Godward LLP and practiced intellectual property litigation with Skjerven Morrill LLP.
She holds a J.D. from University of Georgia School of Law and a B.A. from Emory University.

