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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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Fari Assaderaghi, Vice President of Engineering Fariborz (Fari) Assaderaghi received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from SDSU, graduating Summa Cum Laude and University Valedictorian in 1989. After an internship with AT&T Bell Labs, he attended UC Berkeley where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1992 and 1994, respectively. After graduation, Dr. Assaderaghi joined HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA. From 1995 to 2001 he was with IBM TJ Watson Research Center in New York where he co-developed the first commercial version of CMOS SOI for VLSI. The technology became the workhorse for IBM’s high-end microprocessors and was used in Apple’s processors, as well as Sony Playstation-3 Cell Processor. He was the technology director for Silicon Wave Inc., a San Diego based company developing Bluetooth products, from 2001 to 2003. Silicon Wave was later acquired by RF Micro Devices Corporation. From 2003 till 2008, he was with Rambus (Los Altos, CA), most recently as the Senior Director of Engineering. His groups were responsible for developing very high speed chip-to-chip data communication circuits, including all high-speed links for the PS3 Cell processor, TI DLP, and 16Gb/s ASIC to memory links for the Terabyte/sec initiative. Dr. Assaderaghi has contributed to two book chapters and to more than 80 technical papers. He holds 47 patents, with more than 20 pending.
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Steve Bakos, Vice President of WW Sales Steve Bakos, Vice President of WW Sales at SiTime, has over 21 years of semiconductor industry experience. Prior to SiTime, Steve spent the majority of his career selling high performance analog in various Sales and Marketing Executive and management level positions at Linear Technology, Intersil, Xicor, and National Semiconductor. He has extensive experience building and growing Sales teams and channels worldwide and has managed revenue streams in excess of $250M. Steve also has several years of startup experience with SliceX and most recently, Active Semi, where he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales. |
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Markus Lutz, CTO, Executive Vice President Initial inventor of InChipMEMS™ technology, which allows vacuum-sealed MEMS structures to be manufactured in ultra-pure wafer cavities with integrated CMOS and shipped in low-cost industry standard packages. SiTime is using this key intellectual property to bring to market the lowest cost, high performance resonators and oscillators, which are 1/8 th the size of leading-edge competitive timing devices. Mr. Lutz received his Diplom Ingenieur Elektrotechnik at the Technical University of Munich in 1992. He started his career at Robert Bosch GmbH in Reutlingen Germany, where over 4 years he invented and managed the development of Bosch's first silicon based MEMS gyroscope, now a $200M/year business. In 1999 he joined the newly founded Research and Technology Center of Bosch in Palo Alto as MEMS Program Director. Together with Aaron Partridge (CSO) and Professor Tom Kenny's (Technical Advisory Board, Board Member) team he further developed InChipMEMS™ and wrote the first business plan for commercialization of InChipMEMS™ in the timing market. Markus holds 35 patents, authored and co-authored 14 publications.
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Aaron Partridge received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1996, 1999, and 2003, respectively. From 2001 through 2004 he was Project Manager at Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center (RTC), Palo Alto, CA, where he coordinated the MEMS resonator research. In 1987, he co-founded Atomis, Inc., a manufacturer of STM, AFM, and Ballistic Emission Electron Microscopes (BEEM), were he was Chief Scientist through 1991 when Atomis was sold to Surface Interface Inc. Atomis equipment has been installed at AT&T Bell Laboratories, CERN, NIST, GM, and various universities. Dr. Partridge has authored and co-authored over 30 scientific papers and holds over 10 patents.
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Piyush Sevalia, Vice President of Marketing Piyush Sevalia, Vice President of Marketing at SiTime, has over 17 years of semiconductor industry experience. |