Management Team
Michael Canning
Chief Executive Officer
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
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
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.
Michael Seifert
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Seifert brings over 30 years of financial experience to Multigig including 15 years as CFO in both private and public companies. He has served as Multigig's CFO since May 2011. Before Multigig, Mr. Seifert was CFO at top-tier VC private companies including deCarta from 2008 to 2011 and Xceive from 2006 to 2008. Before Xceive, Mr. Seifert was CFO at Virage Logic (acquired by Synopsys, NASD: SNPS) and earlier at Southwall Technologies Inc.'s (NASD: SWTX). Prior to joining Southwall, Mr. Seifert was CFO of Sitesmith, Inc. and was instrumental in its IPO filing and sale to Metromedia Fiber Networks for $1.4 Billion in October 2000. Mr. Seifert held other senior financial management positions in the high-technology industry, including CFO of SmartDB Corporation, CFO of Wayfarer Communications (sold to Vantive, now Oracle, NASD: ORCL), Vice-president of Finance at Compression Labs, Inc., (sold to VTEL Corporation, NASD: FORG) and corporate controller at PMC-Sierra (NASD: PMCS). Mr. Seifert also spent 10 years at Ernst & Young, where he became a senior manager and principal in the firm's San Jose, California office. Since 1991, he has led private and public equity, debt and merger transactions totaling approximately $1.6 billion. Mr. Seifert is a magna cum laude graduate of Santa Clara University with a B.S. degree in Commerce with a major in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive). Mr. Seifert also serves on the boards of directors of AWR Corporation and Wait-on-Me.
Craig Young
Vice President, Manufacturing Operations and Quality
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.