Forest Baskett, Technical Advisor

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.

Mark Horowitz, Technical Advisor

Mark Horowitz is the Yahoo Founder's Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and serves on the Board of Directors at Rambus. He has been a professor at Stanford working in the the area of digital integrated circuit design since 1984 and took a leave of absense from Stanford to found Rambus, a company designing high-bandwidth memory interface technology. While at Stanford, he has led a number of processor designs and has worked in a number of other chip design areas including high-speed memory design, high-bandwidth interfaces, and fast floating-point circuits. Professor Horowitz received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Greg Papadopoulos, Technical Advisor

Greg Papadopoulos is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, where he is responsible for managing the company's technology and architecture. Before joining Sun, he was Senior Architect and Director of Product Strategy for Thinking Machines. He was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T. and was a development engineer at Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell. Dr. Papadopoulos has co-founded three companies: PictureTel (video conferencing), Ergo (high-end PCs), and Exa Corporation (computational fluid dynamics). He holds a B.A. in Systems Science from the University of California at San Diego, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T.

Jim Plummer, Technical Advisor

Jim Plummer is the Dean of the School of Engineering, the Frederick Emmons Terman Professor of Engineering, and the John M. Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he researches silicon integrated circuit devices and technology. He is a co-inventor of the basic T-RAM technology, and his primary interests are in developing physically based models for silicon structures and fabrication processes and applying these results in the design of new devices, including nanoscale structures, high-voltage devices, and devices and circuits aimed at special applications. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of International Rectifier and the Technical Advisory Board of Cypress Semiconductor. Professor Plummer received his B.S. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

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