Dado Banatao, Chairman of the Board

Mr. Banatao is a managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital. Prior to Tallwood he was a venture partner with the Mayfield Fund. He has served on the Board of Directors and as Chairman of several emerging companies, including Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), NewPort Communications (acquired by BRCM), and Cyras Systems (acquired by CIEN). A three-time start-up veteran, he co-founded Mostron, Chips & Technologies, and S3. Dado holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University.

Sam Nakib, Director; President & CEO

Mr. Nakib is an industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in areas of marketing and sales, business development and general management. Most recently, he was President and CEO of Berkäna Wireless, when it introduced the first fully integrated, CMOS, cellular RF tranceiver for GSM/GPRS. While at Berkäna, Mr. Nakib also oversaw development of the next generation 3.5G tranceiver, and directed the company's acquisition by Qualcomm in December 2005. Before Berkäna, Mr. Nakib served as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Tactical Marketing at Cypress Semiconductor, and was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at IC Works when it was acquired by Cypress. Prior to that, he was with Texas Instruments for 18 years in senior international sales and management positions. In addition, Mr. Nakib serves on the Board of Directors of Mobius Microsystems.He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from California State.

Forest Baskett, Director

Forest joined NEA in 1999 as a venture partner and became a general partner in 2004. Forest focuses on information technology investments. Present board memberships include Aeluros, Atheros Communications, Catalytic, Chelsio Communications, Fulcrum Microsystems, Luxtera, Nanochip, Tableau Software, Silicon Microwave Systems, SiTime Corporation and T-RAM Semiconductor. He also serves as an advisor to DataDomain, FineGround, Foveon, PolyServe, ReShape, Spreadtrum and Telegent Systems. Previous board memberships include E2O and Newisys. Forest also previously held an advisory position with SMIC. Prior to NEA, Forest was Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. He founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation from 1982 to 1986 before joining SGI. Prior to that, he was a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1971 to 1982. He also spent two years at Los Alamos National Laboratory building an operating system for the original Cray-1 computer and a year and a half at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a Principal Scientist doing VLSI research. At Stanford, he worked with Andy Bechtolsheim on the SUN workstation project, with Jim Clark on the Geometry Engine project, and with John Hennessy on the MIPS microprocessor project. Dr. Baskett received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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David Ladd, Director

David Ladd is a General Partner at Mayfield Fund. Prior to Mayfield, David founded his own company, which, through a number of mergers, became part of Octel Communications and then Lucent Technologies, where he served as a Vice President. For the 8 years prior to this, David was one of the founding engineers at Rolm Corporation. David focuses primarily on the communications and enterprise software sectors. In addition to T-RAM Semiconductor, he currently serves on Board of Directors of Banter Technologies, Boldfish, Cowave Networks, LGC Wireless, Sylantro Systems, Teja Technologies, Voxeo, WaveSplitter Technologies, and White Pajama. David holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.

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