Board of Directors

Dado Banatao is a managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital in Palo Alto, California. Formerly a venture partner at Mayfield, Mr. Banatao co-founded three Silicon Valley companies: S3, Chips and Technologies, and Mostron. Mr. Banatao serves as Chairman of Inphi Corporation and Quintic Corporation and is on the board of directors of Alphion Corporation, CSR, Pixim Inc., RIO (Redfern Integrated Optics), T-RAM Semiconductor and Wilocity. He also served as Chairman and led investments in SiRF Technology, acquired by CSR; (CSR); Marvell Technology Group (MRVL); Acclaim Communications, acquired by Level One (INTC); Newport Communications, acquired by Broadcom (BRCM); Cyras Systems, acquired by Ciena (CIEN); and Stream Machine, acquired by Cirrus Logic (CRUS)

David Ladd is a Managing Director of the Mayfield Fund in Menlo Park, California.  Mr. Ladd, a successful former entrepreneur, sits on the boards of Casabi, Inphi, LGC Wireless, LV Sensors, Pixim, Pure Networks, Sylantro Systems, T-RAM, TimeBridge and WaveSplitter.  After eight years as an engineer at ROLM, he co-founded voice messaging company Opcom/VMX, which grew to a $100 million publicly held company.  In 1994, VMX merged with Octel Communications and Mr. Ladd became CTO.  After Lucent Technologies acquired Octel in 1997, Mr. Ladd joined Mayfield part-time while continuing to help Lucent form spin-out companies based on Bell Labs technology.  Mr. Ladd joined Mayfield full-time in May 1999.

Sam Srinivasan is a veteran financial executive in the semiconductor industry and currently serves the boards of SiRF Technology and Centillium Communications as director and chairman of the audit committee.  Mr. Srinivasan was Chief Financial Officer of Cirrus Logic and served as Director, Internal Audits and Corporate Controller at Intel Corporation.

Lip-Bu Tan is the chairman and founder of Walden International (www.waldenintl.com), where he focuses primarily on investments in the semiconductor, alternative energy, and digital media industries. Mr. Tan concurrently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. He has been an active venture capital investor for two decades, with more than 50 technology investments worldwide. Prior to founding Walden International, Mr. Tan was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy. During his tenure at Walden, he made investments in Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Corporation; Ambarella, Inc.; Aptina Imaging, Inc.; Beceem Communications; Inphi Corporation; Silicon Mitus; SolarEdge Technologies, Inc.; Telegent Systems; and Tilera Corporation; Premisys Communication, S3, Centillium (NASDAQ: CTLM), Endwave (NASDAQ: ENWV), Integrated Silicon Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: ISSI), Leadis Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: LDIS), Network Peripheral, and Unisem (KLSE: UNI).

Mr. Tim Semones is one of Inphi Corporation's founders and is a veteran technology entrepreneur.

Mr. Semones began his career with Hewlett Packard (now Agilent Technologies) in the area of product development for microwave instrumentation.  He subsequently spent 12 years building and leading two instrument companies, IMS and Measurement Systems, Inc.  More recently, Mr. Semones was the Director of Marketing at MindSpring Enterprises and the Director of Broadband Technology at Earthlink Network.

Prior to joining Inphi, Young K. Sohn was President of Agilent Technologies' Semiconductor Group (now known as Avago Technologies), where he led the successful turnaround of the semiconductor operation. Before that time, he served as chairman and CEO of Oak Technology, a digital media semiconductor company providing solutions for the consumer electronics markets.

Earlier, Mr. Sohn worked as co-president of Quantum Corporation, a data storage solution products manufacturer. He also worked at Intel Corporation managing the Samsung-Intel strategic partnership. While with Intel, he started the company's PC chipset business unit, which achieved #1 PC chipset market share under his leadership.

He currently is a board member for ARM Holding PLC and Cymer, Inc. In addition, Mr. Sohn was an advisor to MIT Media Lab's OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) program and was past president and chairman of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA). AAMA, formerly known as the Asian American Manufacturers Association, was founded in 1979 and is Silicon Valley's largest and most established non-profit organization dedicated to the Asia-American high-tech community.

Mr. Sohn earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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