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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Donald L. Lucas, Venture capitalist since 1960

Mr. Lucas received his B.A. degree from Stanford University in 1951 and his M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1953. After serving two years as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Mr. Lucas worked in the Corporate Finance Department of Smith, Barney and Co. in New York from 1955-1959.

In 1960, Mr. Lucas became an associate of Draper, Gaither & Anderson. Subsequently, he was both a general and limited partner. Draper, Gaither & Andersons holdings were quite profitably distributed to the general and limited partners at the end of 1966.

Since 1967, Mr. Lucas has been actively engaged in venture capital activities as a private individual. He has been a director of Oracle since March 1980 and currently serves as Chairman of the Executive Committee. He is a director of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and Chairman of the Board of DexCom, Inc., 51job and Spansion, Inc. Mr. Lucas also serves as a director of several privately held companies.

 

Ray Bingham, Managing Director, General Atlantic LLC

Mr. Ray Bingham is a highly respected senior executive with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, global trade and venture capital spanning the high tech, chemical engineering, and hospitality real estate development industries.

He is currently a Managing Director of General Atlantic LLC, a global private equity firm and most recently has served in executive management roles at Cadence Design Systems, the world's leading electronics design automation (EDA) software company. From 1993 to 2005, he served in executive management roles at Cadence and was named executive chairman in May 2004 after serving as president and chief executive officer since May 1999.

Prior to joining Cadence in 1993, Mr. Bingham was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Red Lion Hotels Inc. for eight years where he was responsible for corporate business development. He also held senior management roles with the Marriott Corporation, Agrico Overseas Investment Company and N-ReN International.

Mr. Bingham earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from Weber State University and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. He serves as a Director of ST Microelectronics, Oracle Corporation, KLA Tencor Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and Flextronics International where he is also Chairman of the Board.

 

Jim Hogan, Private Investor

Mr. Jim Hogan has worked in the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry for more than 30 years gaining experience as a senior executive in electronic design automation, semiconductor intellectual property, semiconductor equipment, and fabrication companies.

Mr. Hogan was a general partner at Telos Venture Partners and senior vice president of business development at Artisan Components Inc., now part of ARM Holdings PLC. He held senior engineering, marketing and operational management positions at Cadence Design Systems, Inc., National Semiconductor Corporation and Phillips Semiconductor. At Cadence, he was an Executive Fellow, President of Cadence Japan, Corporate Vice President of Marketing, and Corporate Vice President for Field Operations. At National Semiconductor and Philips, he established device physics laboratories globally. He was also Chief Operating Officer of Smart Machines, Inc., a semiconductor equipment automation company.

Mr. Hogan holds a B.A degree in mathematics, a B.S. degree in computer science and an M.B.A all from San Jose State University. He serves on the Board of Advisors at San Jose State's School of Engineering, and on the board of directors of Clear Shape Technologies, CiraNova, Ponte Solutions and Xpedion Design Systems.

 

Larry Yoshida, Founder, Premier Technologies

Mr. Larry Yoshida has had a distinguished career in the Japanese semiconductor and electronics industry that spans four decades and includes many business and technology accomplishments.

Mr. Yoshida spent almost two decades at Tokyo Electron, Inc. (TEL), where he invented the worlds first fully automated water prober in 1976 and held numerous senior-level positions including president and CEO. He retired TEL in 1986 and founded Innotech Corporation, leading the company through a public offering in 1991 as president and CEO. He spent 18 years at the Innotech, retiring as Chairman in 2004 but still serves as a corporate advisor. Following Innotech, Mr. Yoshida founded Premier Technologies, Inc. with Koichi Suzuki. The companys mission is to introduce high-tech ventures and their technology offerings into Japan.

Mr. Yoshida has a degree in Power Electricity from Osaka Prefecture University. He serves as a director of Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment, Inc. (AMEC), and is chairman of the board of Premier Technologies, Inc.

 

Scott Becker, President & CEO, Tela Innovations

Mr. Becker has more than 24 years of semiconductor industry experience, holds more than 30 semiconductor related patents and serves on four technical advisory boards. He was a founder of Artisan Components, a semiconductor IP company that was acquired by ARM Holdings in December, 2004 for approximately $1 billion. Prior to Artisan, Mr. Becker was at Mentor Graphics as Circuit Design Manager, through its acquisition of Silicon Compilers Systems Corporation, where he held various circuit design engineer positions.

Mr. Becker has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Sidense Corporation, a Canadian company in the one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP space.

 

Dhrumhil Gandhi, Chief Operating Officer, Tela Innovations

Mr. Gandhi has more 26 years of experience developing memories, standard cells, I/O cells, and EDA tools and holds seven semiconductor related patents. He came to Tela after serving as Senior Vice President of Product Technology and Vice President of Engineering at Artisan Components. After Artisan was acquired by Arm Holdings Incorporated, he served as Vice President of Technical Business Development at ARM Holdings.

Prior to Artisan Components, Mr. Gandhi was Senior Manager for Advanced ASIC Design Systems for Mentor Graphics. He joined Mentor Graphics as Senior Manager of 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.

Mr. Gandhi has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology.