Michael Canning, Chief Executive Officer
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Dr. Canning has more than four decades of experience in the Semiconductor Industry, the last 25 years in Executive Management positions and the last 10 as CEO of Public and Private Companies. Most recently, he was President & CEO of SiRF Technology, where he managed a successful IPO in 2004 and grew the company rapidly to a $400M revenue run rate. Prior to that, he was President & CEO of Stream Machine, a digital video recording startup which was acquired by Cirrus Logic Inc. Prior to Stream Machine he spent 12 years at Cirrus Logic, starting as a member of the founding executive team and leaving after the company had reached more than $1B in revenue. As Executive VP Operations, he was responsible for pioneering a new concept called “Fabless” Manufacturing, which is now standard practice in the industry. As President of the Mass Storage Division, he created a profitable $300-400M business providing storage chips for magnetic and optical storage applications. He has also served as President of Teledyne Semiconductor and in Engineering and R&D positions at Signetics/Philips, Commodore/MOS Technology, Intersil and Texas Instruments. Dr. Canning holds an MBA from the University of Santa Clara, a Ph.D. (EE) from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and a BSc(EE) from the University of Durham.
Haris Basit, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
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Haris Basit has extensive experience bringing early technology from the drawing board to product introduction, working with nascent technologies as diverse as ultra-bright LED's and heterojunction bipolar transistors. Mr. Basit joined the Company in March 2004 as its Chief Operating Officer. From 1999 to 2004 Mr. Basit was VP, Business Development for OEA™ International, a leading edge circuit design and EDA software company. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Basit was West Coast Regional Manager for Bell Labs'™ Design Automation (sold to Cadence® Design Systems), where he was responsible for sales, marketing and customer support. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Basit was a department manager at Rockwell®, where he oversaw multiple groups of engineers responsible for circuit design, EDA, IT and procuring and managing large government contracts. He started his professional career in 1986 as part of an R&D group at IBM® in the area of advanced high performance electronics.
Steve Beccue, Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer
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Steve Beccue worked for Rockwell Science Center in optoelectronics from 1984 to 1989. He founded and ran Practical Sciences, Inc. from 1989 to 1999 when he sold it to Semtech where he became Engineering Director for OC48 SONET physical layer devices. Mr. Beccue has a wide range of patents in areas from medical devices to opto-electronic sensors. A long professional history in the ADC area includes work on numerous ADCs and related components at frequencies up to 30 GHz for NASA, the military and other extremely demanding applications. In commercial silicon, Mr. Beccue has designed high performance ADCs for National Semiconductor's Gigabit Ethernet products and also Semtech's SONET products. His most recent ADC design, before joining Multigig, is believed to be the fastest commercially available ADC on the market.
Nicholas Stoll, Director of Finance and Administration
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Nicholas Stoll has over 20 years of experience in finance and administration in Europe and the USA. He was founder and Chief Administrative Officer for a multi-product distribution company headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. He was also the country manager for Spain for an electronic musical instrument company headquartered in Paris. Upon returning to the US, he became the Operations Manager for a gourmet foods distributing company before joining Multigig in 2004.
Mr. Stoll has two Bachelor of Arts degrees from UC Davis. He also pursued graduate work at the University of Maryland in Economics and then later earned a Masters of Science degree in Business Management from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
Craig Young, Vice President, Manufacturing Operations and Quality
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Craig Young has thirty years experience in semiconductor manufacturing, both with subcontract operations and internal operations. Previous companies include Sensor Platforms, AMI Semiconductor, Harris Semiconductor, GE Microelectronics Center, and Fairchild Semiconductor. Mr. Young has extensive experience in the manufacturing start up of new products at subcontractors; including managing and executing all aspects from vendor identification and selection, through process flow identification and documentation, as well as, product qualification and production ramp to high volume. He is also experienced with implementation of, and qualification to, a variety of quality systems including ISO 9001, AEC-Q100, and QML.
Bill Martin, Architect, Wireless Products
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Bill Martin has worked in the Public Safety Radio business since 1974. Mr. Martin has held development responsibility of VHF, UHF, & 700-900 MHz radio architectures for both data and public safety communications products. He also held responsibility for development of Multi-band synthesizer architectures and was the architect and co-developer of Ansoft's Multi-accumulator Fractional-N modeling and simulation software enabling accurate sideband noise analysis in minutes instead of hours. Mr. Martin has authored several IEEE papers and co-authored the paper "a 50 mW Bandpass Sigma-Delta ADC with 333 kHz BW and 90 dB DR" that won the ISSCC "Lewis Winner Award" for best paper in 2002. This same continuous time sigma-delta digital backend subsystem is the heart of robust analog and digital receiver architectures used by several leading public safety "life-on-the-line" radio manufacturers today. Mr. Martin was the architect at Motorola responsible for development of this chipset.
James Li, Director of Asia Pacific Sales
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James Li comes to Multigig from Integrated Device Technology (IDT), where he was a Senior Marketer of timing products for Networking and Communication applications, responsible for supporting and driving revenue growth in the Asia Pacific region. He has over 16 years of working experience in the Semiconductor industry as a system design engineer, ASIC design engineer, FAE, and Sales and Marketing Manager at Fujikura, Vitesse, and IDT (ICS). Mr. Li has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Beijing University, China and an M.S., Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Shizuoka University, Japan.
Akyra Pagoulatos, Vice President of Worldwide Sales
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Akyra Pagoulatos, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, brings more than 15 years of experience in sales and business development in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Multigig, Akyra was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development at SpectraLinear and Analogix Semiconductor, both mixed signal companies addressing the computer and consumer markets with frequency synthesizing, HDMI and DisplayPort products. During his tenure at each company, Akyra helped establish and scale their worldwide sales infrastructure and helped secure funding. In a similar position at Zoran™, as vice president of world-wide sales and general manager of the IP business unit, he established a leading position across Zoran’s consumer semiconductors solutions. He served as Vice President and General Manager for a number of consumer and PC business units with royal Philips Electronics and Sony Corporation. While at Philips he helped construct and managed a joined venture with a large multinational based in Japan. Akyra holds a B.S. degree from New York Institute of Technology.
