Multigig Inc

Haris Basit

Haris Basit, Chief Executive 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.
Peter Walters

Peter Walters, Senior Vice President, Business Development

Peter Walters has extensive experience in both development and the business of bring products successfully to markets in such areas as automotive radar, CDMA hand sets, satellite com, defense, test & measurement, EDA, telecom, and data com. He joined the company in 2007. Previous positions held include CEO, VP of Engineering, VP of Business Development, and various senior management and design positions within companies such as iTerra Communications, Wavetronix, Hewlett Packard, Rockwell, and Philips. Peter Walters has been involved in multiple successful start-ups from inception to growth stages. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leeds, England, MBA, and B.A.Sc. from the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Steve Beccue

Steve Beccue, Chief Technical Officer

Steve Beccue worked for Rockwell Science Center in opto-electronics 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.
Craig Young

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. Craig 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

Bill Martin, Architect, Wireless Products

Bill Martin has worked in the Public Safety Radio business since 1974. Bill has held development responsibility of VHF, UHF, & 700-900 MHz radio architectures for both data and public safety communications products. Bill 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. Bill 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. Bill was the architect at Motorola responsible for development of this chipset.
Scott Gardner

Scott Gardner, Marketing Director, Wire Line Clock and Timing
Products

Scott Gardner has over 20 years of experience in the development and marketing of integrated circuits for Bluetooth, WLAN, VOIP, mass storage, automotive, telecom, and consumer applications. Mr. Gardner has held senior marketing and consulting positions with Integrated Circuit Systems, Inphi, Oki, and Siliconix. While at Integrated Circuit Systems, Scott was instrumental in growing the business over 5 fold in 2 years to $80M while developing over 100 new production products. Scott joined the company in 2008. Mr. Gardner has authored or co-authored multiple papers in publication including "Technology Direction for PCS,” “Echo Cancellation Technologies,” “Designing with an Optimal Hands-Free SOC” and other technical papers. Mr. Gardner graduated from California State Polytechnic University-SLO with a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Electrical Engineering.