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Vinod was the leader of Intel's Pentium team in the early 1990s and justifiably earned the sobriquet of "Father of the Pentium" .
Subsequent to the unquestionable success of the Pentium processor line at Intel, Vinod was recruited to guide NexGen, a start up company engaged in development of an Intel Pentium compatible processor. He was responsible for the delivery of the first Pentium processor compatible product from NexGen.
In 1995 Advanced Micro Devices acquired NexGen for about US $500M. Three years later, AMD's vastly popular K6 chip, based on the NexGen technology, seriously challenged Intel's dominance of the PC microprocessor market. These two achievements made Dham a star at a global level.
Later, Vinod was the CEO of Silicon Spice, a Mountain View, California startup focusing VOIP processors. Silicon Spice was acquired by Broadcom for $1.2 billion.
Vinod is a Co-founder and Managing Member of New Path Ventures LLC.
Tushar began his career in the semiconductor industry as a design engineer at Intel Corporation in the advanced processor development group. Tushar left Intel to join VLSI Technology, Inc as their manager of Strategic Marketing.
Tushar later co-founded Arcus Technology, Inc. Tushar successfully convinced VLSI Technology (USA) to be the investor as well as the technology provider. Cypress Semiconductor acquired Arcus for its strong communication products and technology for over $20m.
Tushar founded Armedia, Inc. in February 1997 with a vision to establish Armedia as a leading provider of Digital TV solutions. Armedia was structured with the US location containing the core marketing, architecture and customer support groups. These groups were then supported by a world-class engineering team in India. Broadcom acquired Armedia in a trend setting historic price of over $100M. A first for that time, making many Indian employees a millionaire.
Tushar is a Co-founder and Managing Member of New Path Ventures LLC.
Balaji Baktha is an experienced and proven executive that has initiated numerous semiconductor businesses and driven them through to significant revenue in a variety of high profile and competitive markets. At InSilica he has led the company to wins in key segments such as mobile phones, broadband wireless, HDTV, high end networking, VOIP, & Flat panel displays with the company shipping over 6 million units in the last year. Balaji came to InSilica from Marvell Semiconductor where he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Embedded and Emerging Business Unit where he launched multiple successful product lines and became Marvell's fastest growing division bringing in $100s of millions of revenue in new markets. Prior to this, Balaji served as Vice President of Marketing for Adaptec's Storage Networking Group coming to the company through their acquisition of Platys which he co-founded. Earlier, Balaji held various executive-level marketing and business development positions at SCM Micro Systems and Shuttle Technology where he was a co-founder.
Ravi Ugale has been a Partner with Crossbow Ventures for five plus years during which time he has led and managed investments in eight privately held technology companies and has been actively involved with a total of over a dozen portfolio companies in various capacities (including but not limited to BOD & Advisory Board responsibilities) to help their overall growth. Ravi currently serves as a board director for Inceptor, Terion, Epipeline, Digital Envoy, inSilica and NovaVision. Ravi is active in the local community serving on the board of the Florida Venture Forum and is their 2005 Chairman. Additionally, Ravi is a founder and director of TiE Florida (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and serves on the board of the EDC (Enterprise Development Corporation) and is a member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization).
Prior to Crossbow Ventures, Ravi spent over 16 years in the high-tech industry as an Operator, Manager and Executive at IBM (consultant), Xerox and Siemens/Oce where he gained extensive knowledge and expertise in software development, systems analysis and design, new product marketing, national program management, Channel/OEM relationship management and new business development.
Mr. Ugale earned an Executive M.B.A. Degree with specialization in International Business and Finance from Florida Atlantic University, a MS degree in Computer Science from Marquette University and a BS degree in Engineering from Poona University. Mr. Ugale is also a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute and was a participant in the 2004 Stanford/YPO Presidents Seminar on Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance.
Mr. Brathwaite joined Flextronics with the acquisition of nChip in 1995, where he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of Operations. As a founding member of nChip, Mr. Brathwaite was responsible for all manufacturing and operational activities, including wafer fabrication, wafer test, and module assembly. Before joining nChip, Mr. Brathwaite spent six years with Intel Corporation in various engineering management positions in Technology Development and Manufacturing.
He has a B.S. in Applied Chemistry, an M.S. in Polymer Engineering, a BSc (Hons) from McMaster University Canada and an MSc from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Mr. Brathwaite has several patents and has authored more than 50 national and international publications.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors for Power Integrations, Inc., a leading supplier of high-voltage analog integrated circuits (ICs) used in power conversion; Photon Dynamics, Inc., a leading global supplier of yield management solutions for the flat panel display market; and Hughes Software Systems, an end-to-end communications solutions provider in the Telecomm Infrastructure, service provider, and business process outsourcing sectors.
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