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Inphi executives have more than 100 years of functional and industry experience in their respective fields, from networking and microwave communications systems to broadband access and wireless applications. United by a common goal to provide the highest performance analog semiconductor solutions to customers, Inphi's management team is committed to helping module and system manufacturers meet today's market challenges head on.
Ford Tamer serves as our President and Chief Executive Officer. Tamer brings to Inphi over 20 years of experience building successful technology businesses, with particular expertise in the semiconductor sector. Prior to joining Inphi, Tamer served as CEO of Telegent Systems, Senior VP and General Manager of Broadcom's Infrastructure Networking Group, which he grew to $1.2 billion in revenue in five years, CEO of Agere Inc. which was acquired by Lucent Microelectronics, and VP at Agere Systems. Tamer was also a partner at Khosla Ventures, where he assisted in the growth of cleantech and IT businesses. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Sentons Inc. Tamer holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering from MIT.
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John Edmunds has served as our Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since January 2008. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Trident Microsystems, a semiconductor company, from June 2004 to January 2008. Mr. Edmunds also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Oak Technology, Inc. from January 2000 until it was acquired by Zoran Corporation in August 2003. He continued to serve as Vice President of Finance for Zoran until June 2004. Mr. Edmunds started his career as a C.P.A. with Coopers & Lybrand in San Francisco and San Jose. He holds a B.S. degree in finance and accounting from the University of California, Berkeley.
Leon Bezdikian has over 25 years of domestic and international Human Resources experience with high-tech companies. He specializes in executive coaching, management training, organizational development, talent acquisition and team building. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Human Resources at SiBEAM, where he was responsible for leading and driving the company's Human Resources organization. Prior to SiBEAM, he was the Director of Human Resources at T-RAM, and held similar roles at Virage Logic, SanDisk, and Storage Dimensions, as well as a five year management consulting practice.
Mr. Bezdikian teaches Human Resources at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Extension Program. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Davis, and has completed the coursework for a Master of Arts in Theology from Santa Clara University.
As one of Inphi's founders, Dr. Loi Nguyen has more than 20 years of experience in the development of high-speed devices and integrated circuits based on advanced gallium arsenide (GaAs) and indium phosphide (InP) technologies. He is well recognized in the high-speed III-V research community worldwide for his work in this field.
From 1984 to 1988, Dr. Nguyen worked at the Honeywell Physical Sciences Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, while writing his graduate thesis on the development of GaAs devices. His thesis contributed to the commercialization of advanced GaAs technology for applications such as direct broadcast satellite (DBS), millimeter wave radios, automotive radar, and defense. In 1992 he established a world-record cutoff frequency for high-speed transistors, for which he received the prestigious IEEE Paul Rappaport Award for Best Paper published in an Electron Devices Society journal.
Dr. Nguyen holds seven U.S. patents and is an author of more than 50 scientific publications. He has served on technical committees of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meetings, the IEEE Device Research Conference and the IEEE International Solid State Devices Meetings.
Dr. Nguyen holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.
Ron Torten, Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Ron Torten has served as our Vice President of Worldwide Sales since December 2007. Mr. Torten previously served as Chief Executive Officer of NemeriX, a semiconductor company, from January 2006 to December 2007. From January 2004 to December 2005, he served as Vice President, Worldwide Materials, at Agilent Technologies, Inc., a semiconductor company. Mr. Torten served as Vice President and General Manager for the Networking Entertainment Division at Agere Systems, Inc., a semiconductor company, from April 2000 to January 2004. He holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Davis.
Lawrence Tse has more than 25 years of integrated circuits electronics design and development, test and product engineering and technical management experience. Leveraging his experience in wireless, power management and mixed-signal technology expertise, Mr. Tse will lead the Inphi new business initiatives engineering team in executing its roadmap.
Prior to joining Inphi, Mr. Tse was the Chief Technology Officer of Intremag Systems. From 2000 – 2008, before Intremag Systems, Mr. Tse was the Vice President of Engineering for the Wireless Products, Communications and Consumer Business Group at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Mr. Tse also served as the Vice President of Engineering for Volterra Semiconductor Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of Power Management Products and previously, he held various positions at Chrontel, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of mixed-signal Visual Communication Products, including serving as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to Chrontel, Mr. Tse was with Nortel Networks, developing Optoelectronics products for SONET applications.
Mr. Tse holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University, Canada, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Paul Washkewicz has more than 25 years of experience in senior marketing and engineering positions with Intel, Hewlett Packard and General Dynamics. Most recently, he was Director of Marketing for the Edge Access Division at Intel, where he and his team managed the Layer 1 and Layer 2 silicon products for the network access markets. Mr. Washkewicz was formerly the TDMA/CDMA business unit manager for DSPC Communications, acquired by Intel in October 1999, where he played a key role in growing the TDMA/CDMA baseband chipset business.
Prior to joining Intel, Mr. Washkewicz spent eight years at Hewlett-Packard, where he held increasing positions of responsibility in marketing. As marketing manager of the Electrical Engineering division, he was responsible for developing marketing strategy, increasing revenues and managing a team of product marketing and marketing communications professionals. He also spent seven years at General Dynamics as a senior electrical engineer, where he developed microwave circuits for receivers and transmitters at 10 GHz and higher.
Mr. Washkewicz graduated from California State Polytechnic University with a B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering.
Norman Yeung joined Inphi from Sun Microsystems, where he led an organization of 200+ multi-disciplined engineers. His team's numerous accomplishments included the development of the dual-thread Millennium processor in 90nm process technology, serial transceiver designs up to 12Gb/s in 65nm and 45nm, and SERDES PHY macros for four different protocols including FBDIMM and PCI Express.
Earlier, he was the founder and CEO of Sandcraft, an embedded microprocessor company. His company acquired more than 20 patents with 25 more pending and obtained substantial funding though revenues from licensing fees and venture capital that led to a successful acquisition of the company. Mr. Yeung began his career with Hughes Aircraft, where he was responsible for the diagnostic development for the AMD-2900-based minicomputer. He also worked at Intel and Silicon Graphics, where he was responsible for R4300i MIPS embedded processor development used in the Nintendo-64 game console.
Mr. Yeung earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Mini-MBA for High Tech Companies at Stanford University.
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