Paul Nahi - President, Chief Executive Officer
Paul Nahi has over 20 years experience in both entrepreneurial and multinational high technology companies. Most recently, Paul was the CEO of Crimson Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in large scale SONET ICs for the telecommunications industry, with customers in Russia, India and the United States. Prior to Crimson, Paul was the CEO and co-founder of Accelerant Networks, a semiconductor company that designed and developed intelligent multi-gigabit transceivers. Accelerant was acquired by Synopsis, Inc. Prior to Accelerant, Paul served as General Manager of the Communications and Media Divisions for NEC Electronics,. Before NEC, Paul was the Senior Director for Diamond Multimedia where, as an early member of the executive team, he helped grow Diamond from a small, privately held enterprise to a publicly traded company with offices worldwide and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Paul has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
Raghu Belur - Co-founder, Vice President of Marketing
Raghu Belur has 15 years of experience in engineering and engineering management. He started his career at the Indian Institute of Science where he worked on a team developing an alternative energy gasification system. He was an early engineer at Cerent where he was responsible for the development of the optical 2.5Gig interface for the Cerent-454 ADM. Cerent was subsequently acquired by Cisco for $7 Billion. At Cisco, Raghu was managing the team developing the 10Gig interface products for the ONS-15454. He co-founded Enphase Energy Inc. with Mr. Fornage in March of 2006. Raghu has a MSEE from Texas A&M University.
Robert Schwartz - Managing Director, Third Point Ventures. President, RF Associates North, Inc.
Robert Schwartz is Managing Director of Third Point Ventures, the Sunnyvale, CA based Venture Capital arm of Third Point LLC which is a registered investment adviser based in New York, with approximately $6 billion of assets under management. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors at EnPhase Energy, he is currently a Board member of Solar Notion, LitePoint, Liga Systems, Sequoia Communications, Inapac Technology, and Technocom Wireless.
Since 1984, Mr. Schwartz has been the President and majority shareholder of RF Associates North, Inc., a leading technical manufacturer's representative firm in Northern California. Mr. Schwartz holds two undergraduate Engineering degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Brian Hamel - Co-founder, President, CEO, Nanochronous Logic
Brian's background includes 17 years experience in both the semiconductor and EDA industry. It includes an in-depth knowledge of all facets of silicon development. He also has many years of sales/business development experience with many multinational organizations, generating millions in revenue.
His most recent role included developing the business plan and launching Cadence's Corporate Venture Capital practice. His experience includes analyzing and advising startups on business formation, raising institutional as well as corporate capital and taking products to market. He has held multiple board observer seats and built a multinational investment portfolio of 19 leading edge semiconductor and system startups.
