Telegent Systems represents a breakthrough opportunity for handset makers, carriers, and broadcasters.
Board of Directors
Feng Deng
Founding Managing Director, Northern Light Venture Capital
Feng co-founded Northern Light Venture Capital in 2005, a China focused fund. He has more than 15 years of technical and managerial experience in the computer, communication and data networking industries. In 1997, Deng co-founded NetScreen Technologies, and served as the Vice President of Engineering, Chief Strategy Officer and Board member. NetScreen went public on NASDAQ in 2001 and was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004 for $4 billion. From 2004 to 2005, Deng served as Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Juniper Networks. Prior to founding NetScreen, Deng served at Intel in a variety of roles.
Deng was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2002 and the Innovator of the Year award in 2003. Deng holds a MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California, a MS degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, and a MBA from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He also holds five U.S. patents in computer system architecture and IC design. Deng serves as the Chairman of the Tsinghua Executive Entrepreneur Club (TEEC), serves on the Board of Directors of Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA), and is a board member of the Tsinghua University Foundation.
Dr. Paul R. Gray
During his 28-year tenure with the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Paul Gray has held numerous administrative posts, including Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory, Vice Chairman of the EECS Department for Computer Resources, Dean of the College of Engineering and Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Gray holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Reed E. Hundt
Reed E. Hundt served four years as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), from 1993 to 1997. Prior to his position as Chairman of the FCC, Hundt was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Latham & Watkins, a national and international law firm. Hundt is a part-time advisor to McKinsey & Company, Co-Chairman of The Forum on Communications and Society at The Aspen Institute, and serves on the boards of numerous public and private companies. He is a special advisor to Blackstone Group, a New York-based private equity firm, is a member of the advisory committee at the Yale School of Management, and has authored You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics (Yale University Press, 2000) and In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship (Yale University Press, 2006). Hundt is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College, and is also a graduate of Yale Law School where he was a member of the executive board of the Yale Law Journal.
Scott Sandell
General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Scott Sandell focuses on investments in information technology and alternative energy, and is responsible for NEA’s activities in China. Present board memberships include Agami Systems, Bloom Energy, Cassatt, Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP), Dexterra, DreamFactory, HelioVolt, SolFocus, Spreadtrum Communications (NASDAQ: SPRD), SugarCRM, Tableau Software, Telegent Systems and Teneros. He also serves as Co-Chairman of the board of the Software Development Forum. He has sponsored investments in 3ware (acquired by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation), Amplitude Software (acquired by Critical Path), Fineground Networks (acquired by Cisco), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks, (NASDAQ: JNPR), NetIQ (NASDAQ: NTIQ), Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and WebEx (NASDAQ: WEBX). Sandell started his career at the Boston Consulting Group and later joined C-ATS Software as the company's first salesman.
Sandell founded and ran the European Subsidiary before attending Stanford Business School. During and after business school, Sandell was a Product Manager at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows 95. Sandell holds an MBA from Stanford and an AB in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College.
Brooke Seawell
Venture Partner, New Enterprise Associates
With seven IPOs in his career as an officer and a director, Brooke Seawell brings more than 25 years of experience in technology finance and operations to Telegent's board. He has served as Executive Vice President at NetDynamics, an application server software company acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998; as Senior Vice President - finance and operations & CFO at Synopsys, an electronic design automation software company which he took public in 1992; and as Vice President - finance and production & CFO of Weitek, a fabless semiconductor company which he took public in 1988.
Recognized by Upside Magazine as one of the top 15 high-tech CFOs in 1990, Seawell has subsequently served as Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures and is currently a Venture Partner at NEA. Seawell sits on the boards of three public companies - NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), Informatica (Nasdaq: INFA), Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU) - and several private companies. Seawell received his MBA and BA from Stanford University.
Samuel Sheng
Chief Technical Officer, Co-Founder, Telegent Systems
Samuel Sheng co-founded Telegent in 2004 and is responsible for developing and expanding Telegent's core technology platforms. A world-renowned expert in CMOS RF and DSP development, Sheng has extensive experience in architecting and designing leading-edge CMOS RF and DSP chips for silicon tuners, ADSL transceivers, magnetic recording and DVD RF/servo technologies. He has a proven track record of sampling first silicon for all the chips developed under his leadership. Prior to co-founding Telegent Systems, Sheng was at LSI Logic and responsible for architecting and implementing a series of silicon RF tuners for video-band applications, targeted for cable modems, analog/digital video over cable, and voice over IP as well as highly integrated DVD front-end technologies. Before LSI Logic, Sheng co-led the ADSL front-end (AFE) development effort at Datapath Systems, Inc.
Sheng was awarded Inventor of the Year at LSI Logic in 2002 and 2003 and was named the 2002 Distinguished Engineer at LSI Logic. He has authored numerous papers and publications on various topics such as low-power CMOS RF wireless systems and low-power CMOS digital design. Sheng has been awarded seven patents in the areas of RF tuner and DSL modem design. Sheng holds a BA degree in applied mathematics and BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ford Tamer
Chief Executive Office, Telegent Systems
Ford Tamer joined Telegent in June 2010 as chief executive officer, responsible for leading the company's strategic vision. Tamer brings to Telegent more than twenty years of experience building successful technology businesses. Prior to joining Telegent, Tamer was partner at Khosla Ventures, where he expanded the firm's cleantech efficiency practice. Prior to Khosla, he served as senior vice president and general manager of Broadcom's Infrastructure Networking Group, which he grew to $1.2 billion in revenue in five years. Prior to Broadcom, Tamer was CEO and co-founder of Agere, a networking semiconductor company that was acquired by Lucent before being spun out as Agere Systems, where he served as vice president. Tamer has also led marketing and international operations for Dazel Corporation, acquired by Hewlett-Packard, and co-founded MegaKnowledge, acquired by IntelliCorp.
Tamer holds an MS and PhD in engineering from MIT.
Lip-Bu Tan
President and CEO, Cadence
Lip-Bu Tan is President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. He has been a member of the Cadence Board of Directors since 2004 and servers as a member of the Finance and Technology Committees of the Board. Tan also serves as chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm he founded in 1987. Prior to founding Walden, he was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy. Tan holds an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MBA from the University of San Francisco, and a BS from Nanyang University in Singapore. He serves on the Board of Directors of both the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC) and the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA).
Weijie Yun
Executive Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, Telegent Systems
Weijie Yun co-founded Telegent in 2004 and has a proven track record of bringing products from conceptual stage to market. Prior to Telegent, Yun led marketing and product management at Berkana Wireless, Inc., which was acquired by Qualcomm. He also served as the founding president & CEO of AIP Networks and was a founder and director of SiTek, Inc., a spin-off resulting from his work developed at BEI Technologies' Microengineering Technology Center.
Yun was awarded 2008 Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. Yun holds MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Giuseppe Zocco
Partner, Index Ventures
Giuseppe Zocco co-founded Index Ventures in 1996 and is a Partner. His areas of investment focus currently include components, communication and wireless infrastructure and devices. He serves as a Director of several public and private companies including Conexant (NASDAQ: CNXT), Telegent Systems, Artimi, VirtualLogix and Certess. Previously, Zocco spent five years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in several European offices. During his career at McKinsey, Zocco advised several major corporations on a number of strategic and organizational matters including European entry strategies, strategic positioning, marketing and new product introductions. Zocco holds a BA in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, an IEP from London Business School and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.