Charles Chi
Charles joined Greylock in 2000. His area of focus is systems, semi-conductors and related software for communications, computing and storage for the enterprise, service provider and consumer markets. Before Greylock Charles held executive positions in the communications sector that spanned both service providers and equipment suppliers. He joined Greylock from CIENA Corporation where he was vice president of marketing. Previously Charles had co-founded and led marketing at Lightera Networks, Inc., a market defining optical core switching company acquired by CIENA. Before Lightera he held marketing, sales engineering and engineering roles at Cisco, StrataCom, AT&T Canada and Bell Canada. During his tenure he developed and launched a number of new products and services based on new technologies. Charles represents Greylock on the boards of Espial, Quorum Systems, Siliquent Technologies and SiTime. Charles' previous investments include Sanera Systems (acquired by McDATA). He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1988 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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Joe Horowitz
Joe Horowitz has been a general partner of JAFCO Ventures since its formation in 2003, bringing to JAFCO 25 years of experience working with early stage companies as a venture capitalist, advisor and entrepreneur. At JAFCO the companies Joe has been actively involved with include Avnera, Calypto, Cortina, Devicescape, FireEye, Infinera (INFN), Marketlive, Meebo, Mimosa, Oodle, Proofpoint and RedSeal. Joe’s venture capital experience prior to joining JAFCO includes a 10-year tenure at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) from 1982 to 1992 and three years with Exxon Enterprises. At USVP, the first deal that he worked on was the seed financing of Sun Microsystems. Joe also spent several years managing his own venture advisory firm and was Chairman & CEO of Geocast Network Systems, a broadband infrastructure company backed by Mayfield, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Institutional Venture Partners. Joe received his MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. As an undergraduate he studied engineering and applied sciences and then earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics at Columbia University.
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Thomas Kenny
Thomas W. Kenny (M'90) received the B.S. degree in physics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1983 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987 and 1989, respectively. He has worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where his research focused on the development of electron-tunneling high-resolution microsensors. In 1994, he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and directs MEMS-based research in a variety of areas including resonators, wafer-scale packaging, cantilever beam force sensors, microfluidics, and novel fabrication techniques for micromechanical structures. Dr. Kenny is a founder of Cooligy, Inc., a microfluidics chip cooling components manufacturer. Dr. Kenny has authored and co-authored over 200 scientific papers and holds 40 patents.
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Gerhard Schneider
In 2005, Dr. Gerhard Schneider was appointed Vice President of the Research and Technology Center North America of the Robert Bosch Corporation.  Research topics include micro-system technologies, software engineering, wireless technologies, human-machine-interfaces, and others. He received his Dipl.-Ing. in Materials Science from the University of Stuttgart and his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck-Institut  für Metallforschung, Stuttgart .  After working 1.5 years at the Physics department of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.  In 1989, Dr. Schneider joined the Robert Bosch GmbH working in materials research. In 1996, Dr. Schneider returned to academia as Professor at the University for Applied Sciences in Aalen .  He was promoted to Vice President of the university in 1999.  In 2001, he rejoined Robert Bosch GmbH as Department Head of Materials Research focusing on advanced materials for actuators and sensors
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Brooke Seawell
Brooke joined New Enterprise Associates in 2005 as a Venture Partner, focusing on software and semiconductor investments. He brings with him 25-plus years experience in technology finance and operations. Brooke was most recently a Venture Partner with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of NetDynamics, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998. From 1991 to 1997, Brooke was Senior Vice President–finance and operations and CFO of Synopsys, an electronic design automation software company which he took public in 1992. During his tenure at Synopsys, revenue grew from $20 million to $500 million. From 1983-1991 Brooke served as Vice President, finance and production and CFO at Weitek, which he took public in 1988. Previously, he co-founded and was CFO of Southwall Technologies. In 1990, Brooke was recognized by Upside Magazine as one of the top 15 high-tech CFOs. He currently serves on the board of two public companies (NVIDIA and Informatica) and a variety of private companies. Brooke received his MBA and BA from Stanford University.
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Rajesh Vashist, CEO
Rajesh Vashist, chief executive officer at SiTime, has over 22 years of experience in the Semiconductor industry. Prior to SiTime, Vashist served as CEO and chairman of the board at Ikanos Communications (NASDAQ: IKAN). Mr. Vashist grew Ikanos from a small start up to a highly competitive and successful publicly traded company. Ikanos is a leading global provider of high performance silicon and software for interactive broadband. Prior to Ikanos, Vashist was general manager at Adaptec. Prior to Adaptec, Vashist held positions at Vitelic Semiconductor and Samsung Semiconductor. Vashist holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from REC Rourkela in India and an M.B.A. from Marquette University in Wisconsin.
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