John D. Cummins - CEO
Thomas H. Lee - Founder and Director of Advanced Development
Andrew N. Karanicolas - VP, Engineering
Victoria L. Barklow - VP, Finance
David Friedman - Senior Director, Sales and Marketing
John D. Cummins is a seasoned semiconductor executive with more than 20 years experience in management roles at start-ups and large multi-nationals. Prior to joining ZeroG, John spent six years at Agere Systems/Lucent Microelectronics, where he was most recently Vice President responsible for the Greater China region. In that role, John ran a $500 million business focused on wireless and wireline telecom infrastructure, cellular baseband, and datacom products. Before his time in China, John built and managed a team dedicated to strategic accounts in North America as Director of Strategic Accounts. John joined Lucent in 2000 through the $450 million acquisition of Agere Incorporated, a pioneering network processor start-up, where he was instrumental in securing several early tier 1 OEM design wins as Director of Sales. Earlier in his career, John held various management positions at Sun Microsystems Microelectronics Division and Cypress Semiconductor. John has a BSEE from California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He is an active member of YPO.
Thomas H. Lee is concurrently a tenured Stanford University professor, successful entrepreneur, and highly respected engineer. He holds S.B., S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and began his career in industry as a circuit designer at Analog Devices building high-speed clock recovery devices. He joined Rambus in 1992 to develop high-speed analog circuitry for CMOS RAMs. Prof. Lee also contributed to the clock and PLL circuitry on several microprocessors, notably the K6, K7 and K8, at Advanced Micro Devices, as well as the StrongARM and Alpha CPUs at Digital Equipment Corporation.
In 1994, Prof. Lee joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Stanford University, where his research focuses on gigahertz communication circuits, both wireline and wireless. He is the author of the widely used textbooks The Design of CMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (Cambridge University Press, 1998; second edition, 2004), and Planar Microwave Engineering (Cambridge Press, 2005), as well as four other books on RF circuit design, and is the recipient of a coveted Packard Foundation Fellowship.
Prof. Lee has won the ISSCC Best Paper Award twice — an award considered to be among the most prestigious in semiconductor circuit design — as well as several other conference Best Paper awards. He has been a IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of two separate IEEE societies, is a member of the Solid-State Circuits Society AdCom, and has been granted forty-two U.S. patents.
Prof. Lee co-founded Matrix Semiconductor in 1998, and was instrumental in the design of the first 3-D Memory chip. Matrix was acquired by SanDisk in January of 2006.
Andrew N. Karanicolas, Ph.D., Vice President, Engineering, is responsible for all of the Company's product research and development programs. Dr. Karanicolas has more than 20 years of expertise designing high-performance integrated circuits and systems for communications, medical, industrial and consumer markets.
Prior to joining ZeroG, he was the Design Director at True Circuits where he was responsible for the design and development of PLL and DLL IP for precision clock generation and memory interface applications in CMOS technologies. Previously, he held key management and technical positions at Maxim Integrated Products, Level One Communications, which was acquired by Intel in 1999, and AT&T Bell Laboratories where he designed products for cellular, cordless, ethernet, medical ultrasound and industrial acquisition applications in bipolar, BiCMOS and CMOS technologies. He has also served as an independent consultant to the semiconductor industry.
Dr. Karanicolas received his Ph.D., S.M. and S.B. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has ten publications and eight patents issued. Since 2004, Dr. Karanicolas has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits.
As Vice President and Corporate Controller for ZeroG Wireless, Ms. Barklow is responsible for managing and directing all aspects of accounting, finance, human resources, general legal, and administration. With over twenty years of professional experience, Ms. Barklow brings a broad range of accounting and management experience to ZeroG Wireless and is instrumental in shaping the internal and external financial systems, policies, procedures and reporting practices.
Prior to joining ZeroG Wireless in 2006, Ms. Barklow served 8 years as Vice President and Corporate Controller for Matrix Semiconductor, where she managed and directed accounting and finance issues for the company through rapid and remarkable growth. Prior to her career at Matrix Semiconductor, Ms. Barklow was Corporate Controller for Palm Computing for seven years from start up phase to industry leader. She maintained her role through Palm's acquisition by US Robotics and later, 3Com Corporation. Prior to her career at Palm Computing, Ms. Barklow was Corporate Controller at DB Software and Link, a subsidiary of Wyse Technologies.
Ms. Barklow holds a Bachelors degree from San Jose State University and an MBA from Golden Gate University.
David Friedman is Senior Director, Sales and Marketing for ZeroG Wireless. In this role, Mr. Friedman is responsible for product definition, corporate partnerships, and business development for ZeroG products, as well as all corporate marketing activities. Mr. Friedman holds over ten years of semiconductor experience and is lead or co-inventor of four US patents.
Prior to joining ZeroG, Mr. Friedman spent six years at Matrix Semiconductor, serving initially as product marketing manager and eventually overseeing the company's European sales activities and broader goals to penetrate the handset and mobile operator market. In this role, he developed relationships with leaders in the mobile and wireless ecosystem, spanning content owners, mobile operators, handset OEM's and leading OS providers throughout Europe, North America and Asia.
Mr. Friedman joined Matrix after three years at Intel, where he held various roles in marketing and finance. Prior to his career at Intel, he spent four years in investment banking in New York City with Chase Bank.
Mr. Friedman holds a Bachelors degree from Colgate University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.