Ali Tasdighi Far: 25+ Years of Data-Converter/Analog & Mixed-Mode IC Design experience in Silicon Valley:

    • Ai Linear:  CEO/CTO/Founder
    • TelCom (acquired by Microchip):  Vice President of Analog IC Design
    • Media Vision Technology (acquired by Aureal, and Creative Labs):  Director of Mixed-Mode IC Design
    • Micro Power Systems (acquired by Exar MaxLinear):  Manager of Analog IC Design & Strategic Marketing
    • Precision Monolithics Inc (acquired by Analog Devices):  Design Engineer Data-Converter ICs
    • Plantronics: Audio IC Design Engineer
    • Additional 10+ years of Wall-Street technology investment banking experience:
        • Prudential Securities: Vice President & Analog IC Analyst
        • Galleon Partners: peak assets of $7 billion. Senior technology Analyst, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager, ran a $50 and $100 million funds
        • Spherix: Founder & General Managing Partner, Raised & ran a $220+ million technology fund
  • 40+ patents  (including patents pending) and published 14 peer-reviewed IEEE papers in Analog ICs
  • BSEE&CS at UC Berkeley; MSEE & MBA & Juris Doctor in Law & MA Psychology at Santa Clara University; MA Philosophy at SFSU

Mark P. Guidotti – Juris Doctor: Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Ai Linear. 40+ years of law, patent prosecution, Automatic Test Equipment (ATE), hardware, software, and information technology (IT) experience:

  • Semiconductors:
    • Ai Linear: COO
    • Teradyne: ATE instrumentation consultant
    • Microtone: Co-founder, ATE interface products
    • Attain: Co-founder, ATE system Director of Engineering & Manufacturing (acquired by Teradyne)
    • LTX: Applications Engineer, Semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment
    • Intel: Semiconductor Test Engineer, telephony products
  • Legal & Finance:
    • Silicon Edge Law Group: Patent Attorney and Litigator
    • Spherix Capital: CTO/COO $220 million fund
  • Information Technology:
    • IBA: Vice President of IT $250MM company w/30 sites worldwide
    • SteriGenics: IT/operations consultant
  • Broadcasting:
    • KKCY-FM Radio: Founder, owner, operator
  • Juris Doctor Santa Clara University School of Law; BSEE Manhattan College (NY)
  • Admissions & Registrations: USPTO, State Bar of CA, US District Court NDCA, DC Bar (retired), US Court of Appeals For the Federal Circuit; US Supreme Court, Registered Professional Engineer

Peter Allworth: Fellow Scientist of Ai Linear. Peter has 40+ years of engineering, operation, and executive expertise in software, hardware, systems, and integrated circuit design (analog and digital) at companies including:

  • Engauged: Co-founder, energy monitoring platform on AWS
  • Firmus Technologies: Senior Developer, AI Infrastructure
  • Ecoult: Principal Engineer, Battery Energy Storage Systems
  • Memjet: Senior Systems Engineer, Print Imaging Specialist
  • Altium(acquired by Renesas Group): Consultant, FPGA CAD
  • Radiata Communications(acquired by Cisco): Senior Hardware Engineer, mixed signal IC design for WiFi
  • Comperex:Real-time Firmware Developer, RAID disk controller
  • Micro-Power-Systems:(acquired by MaxLinear/Exar): Analog IC Design, implantable pacemakers
  • Information Concepts: CAD system for polymer bank notes

5 patents

BSc and BEng (Honors): University of Sydney

John Edwards: Ai DSP Advisor of Ai Linear. Over 30+ Years of Digital Signal Processing and Machine Learning experience:

    • Sigma Numerix: DSP and AI Consultant, owner/director
    • XMOS:  Senior Field Applications Engineer
    • Picochip Designs  (acquired by Mindspeed):  Senior Field Applications Engineer 
    • Loughborough Sound Images/Blue Wave Systems (Motorola):  Field Applications Team Manager 
    • University of Oxford: Adjunct Professor – DSP for Industrial Summer Engineering Programs (15+ years)
    • Experienced developer of Voice User Interfaces, including Amazon Alexa and Google Home
    • Engineering Credentials: Chartered Engineer, Member IET, Member IEEE
  • 20+ IEEE and Industry papers, and invited talks (2 keynote presentations) 
  • BEng (Honors) at University of Bradford

Michael C. Shebanow – PhD: Ai GPU/CPU Advisor of Ai Linear. 40+ years of experience in high performance CPU, GPU, and software.  Architect of Hal’s out-of-order computing, Nvidia’s CUDA GPU, and Cadence’s Tensilica  with experience at:

    • Cadence Design Systems (Tensilica): Vice President of R&D (configurable embedded CPUs and AI inference IC)
    • Samsung (SAIT and SSI): Vice President of R&D (GPU development)
    • NVIDIA: Principal Engineer (GPU development – G80, Fermi, Kepler, CPU development – Denver, NV Research)
    • AMD: Director (CPU development)
    • HAL Computer Systems: Vice President and General Manager (CPU development – HAL R1, Denali)
    • Cyrix: Senior Manager (CPU development – M1, M3)
    • Motorola SPS: Senior Engineer (CPU development – 68050, M120)
  • 47+ patents, 17 peer reviewed IEEE papers, and invited talks (4 keynote presentations); IEEE Fellow
  • BSEE and PhD Computer Science at UC Berkeley

Brian Gardner: Business Development & Customer Acquisition Advisor of Ai Linear.

43 years’ experience in Sales, Marketing, and Business Development in IP and Semiconductors at companies including:

  • True Circuits: VP Business Development (Mixed-Signal IP)
  • Canaan: General Manager. ASICs & SoC.
  • Cadence: Senior Director: CAD/CAE IP
  • Austin Interface (acquired by Apple): Managing Partner. Semiconductor IP
  • Denali Software: VP & GM.  IP Development
  • QLogic: Assitsance GM: storage networking chips
  • OmegaBand: VP Marketing. Ethernet InfiniBand Adaptor
  • Interactive Silicon: VP Marketing, Sales, Business Development. Compression chip (in memory DIMM)
  • Motorola: VP and General Manager. Mixed-Signal ASICs with embedded CPU

BSEE: Louisiana State University

Daniel W. Loyer: Financial Compliance & Audit Advisor of Ai Linear. 49 years’ experience in Sales, Marketing, and Financial Management in the Aerospace Market at companies including:

  • Intech: Sales and Marketing Manager
  • Teledyne Semiconductor: VP Sales and Marketing. Defense Technology.
  • MVM Technologies: Founder. Universal inkjet technology.
  • MedSensors: Medical electronics
  • Cermetek Microelectronics: CFO. USDA water management

BSEE (Case Institute of Technology) , MBA Finance (Santa Clara University)

US Marine Corps Captain: ECMO, Legal/Investigations