About: Board of Directors - Management Team

Board of Directors

Dr. Christer Svensson
Chairman, co-founder

Dr. Svensson is professor of Electronic Devices and managing director of Stringent research center at Linköping University. He has 36 years of experience in high speed and low power electronics research. He is IEEE fellow and member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciencies. He founded several companies, among them Switchcore AB (publ.) of which he is board director.

Dr. Dake Liu
CTO, co-founder

Dr. Dake Liu is professor of Computer Engineering at Linköping University. He has 16 years of experiences in research and teaching in universities plus 6 years R&D experiences in Swedish industries. He was CTO and co-founder of Freehand DSP AB Sweden 1999-2002 and then served as CSO (Chief Scientific Officer) of VIA Technologies Sweden. Earlier he was senior staff in Ericsson Microelectronics and Ericsson UAB.

Roeland Boonstoppel

Roeland Boonstoppel has 20 years of hands-on international technology investment, non-executive director, operational and advisory experience.
He has 13 years of transatlantic venture capital and angel investment experience. He worked for reputable venture capital firms like Crescendo Ventures, Kennet Venture Partners and Atlas Ventures. Roeland has a Master's degree in Economics and Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Pekka Valjus

Pekka Valjus has 30 years experience in Consumer and Mobile Telecom Businesses. He has had different R&D positions at Nokia, both at Nokia Consumer Electronics and Mobile Terminal Business. At Consumer Electronics his last position was the Head of R&D sites in Salo (Finland) and Motala (Sweden). At Terminal Business he had positions like the Head of Salo R&D Site; Senior Vice President, Product Programs and as latest Senior VP, Terminal Platform Technology for Smart Phones. In 2005 he left Nokia to assist small technology start-ups. Pekka has a M.Sc. Technology degree from the University of Oulu, Finland.

Tim Unger

Tim Unger brings twenty years of executive management and operating experience in a wide variety of leading-edge technology markets. Tim has successfully scaled a number of Silicon Valley start-ups while accelerating the launch of their dynamic businesses, ultimately leading to compelling liquidity events for company stakeholders. Among Tim's most recent successes is TROPIAN, Inc. The Fabless semiconductor start-up provided multimode radio solutions addressing cellular & emerging 3G standards and has been folded through acquisition into the Panasonic wireless family. Tim currently serves on the board of Cydelity (just acquired by Digital Envoy) and advises 24Access and Skybox Security.

Alain Fanet

Alain Fanet is Board Director and co-founder of Arteris. Previously Alain was CTO and CEO former of ARTERIS. Prior to ARTERIS, Alain was Senior VP and General Manager of HSI Business Unit within Globespan, an ADSL semiconductor company. During his time there he managed the development of a complex DSL network processor family. Prior to Globespan, Alain was President, COO and co-founder of T.sqware Inc, a network processor company. While growing the company and expanding the Engineering team from 17 to 75 engineers Alain then merged T.sqware with Globespan in 2000. Prior to founding T.sqware he was Director of the Network Division at Matra Semiconductor, a French subsidiary of the Temic group.

 


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