Board
 
Dr. Joseph Perl, Executive Chairman
Dr. Joseph M. Perl is the Executive Chairman and Board Member of Mobilygen. In 1990 Dr. Perl joined DSP Communications, Inc. (NYSE: DSPC), a leading provider of chipsets for the wireless personal communications market. Dr. Perl held senior technical and managerial positions at DSPC, including President and CEO until 1999, shortly before Intel Corporation acquired the company for close to $1.6 billion. Since 1999, Dr. Perl served as an Advisor to Intel until joining Mobilygen in 2001. Prior to DSPC, Dr. Perl's career combined academic appointments with Tel Aviv University, Florida State University and University of Nebraska, with industry positions at Tadiran Electronics, Ltd. and Elbit Computers, Ltd. Throughout his career, Dr. Perl worked in the areas of Wireless Communications, Digital Signal Processing and Semiconductors. Dr. Perl received his B.Sc. degree from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Colorado State University, all in Electronic Engineering. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE since 1987 and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences since 1993.
 

Russ Siegelman, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
At Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Russell invests in software, electronic commerce, Web services, media and telecommunications. He is currently on the board of: Tradec, Vertical Networks and Vividence. Russell also leads other KPCB investments in: NewView, SS8, Veraz Networks and WildBlue Communications. Russell was involved in AdKnowledge, which was sold to CMG Inc. in November 1999; iExchange.com that became part of Placemark Investments in October 2000; Greenlight.com, which merged with CarsDirect.com in January 2001; pogo.com, which was sold to Electronic Arts in March 2001; and Resonate, which was acquired by Gores Technology Group in March 2003. Russell is also on the board of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, an independent public charity, as well as the non-profit organization Sustainable Conservation. Russell joined KPCB after seven years at Microsoft. At Microsoft he helped launch LAN Manager, Microsoft's first network operating system, then was the marketing manager in charge of Windows for Workgroups, a small-business networking version of Windows. For the first half of 1993, Russell worked directly for Bill Gates during which time he researched the online market and recommended an entry strategy for that market. This led to the formation the Microsoft Network (MSN), Microsoft's online service. Russell became the first employee of this division and became its General Manager and then Vice President through April of 1996. Under his direction, MSN was developed and launched and reached over 1 million paying members. Russell was also responsible for the formation of the Slate project, Microsoft's World Wide Web political and arts commentary. He recruited the editor, Michael Kinsley, and was the business manager in charge of Slate until he left Microsoft in July 1996. Before Microsoft, Russell was a software engineer who wrote artificial intelligence applications for the financial services industry at Applied Expert Systems, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup, and was also an engineering consultant. He earned his SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Physics in 1984 and a MBA from Harvard University where he was a Baker Scholar in 1989.
 

Jeff Brody, Founding Partner Redpoint Ventures
Jeff Brody is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to founding Redpoint, Jeff was a general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital, a firm he joined in 1994. Jeff has led investments in a number of infrastructure software companies such as GetThere (GTHR), Concur Technologies (CNQR), Onebox (acquired by OpenWave), ePeople, Metreo, and Danger, Inc., as well as internet companies including Web TV (acquired by Microsoft), NextCard (NXCD), and mySimon (acquired by CNET). Prior to joining Brentwood, Jeff spent six years with Comdisco Venture Leasing. Before Jeff joined Comdisco, he as an Associate at Crosspoint Venture Partners and co-founded a mobile telecommunications company. Jeff also worked as a field engineer for Schlumberger Ltd. in Europe and Africa. Jeff received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
 

Brian G. Melton, Senior Vice President Lehman Brothers
Brian Melton is a general partner of Lehman Brothers Venture Partners.(LBVP). He currently focuses on investments in semiconductors, electronics and energy, and he has experience in software and enterprise infrastructure. Brian serves as a Board member or observer at Active-Semiconductor, Fortémedia, Mobilygen and Valere Power. Previously, he was involved with venture investments in Composite Software, E2O Communications (acquired by JDS Uniphase), Evant (acquired by Manhattan Associates), Infoblox, Mark Logic, Oblix (acquired by Oracle), PentaSafe Security Technologies (acquired by NetIQ) and Primarion. Prior to joining LBVP, Brian was a member of Lehman Brothers' private equity investment fund, where he worked in the firm's Hong Kong and New York offices. Brian received an MBA from Stanford University and a BS from Wake Forest University.
 

Elias Antoun, Genesis President and CEO
Elias Antoun is the President and CEO of Genesis Microchip, and Board Member of Mobilygen. Prior to joining Genesis Microchip in November 2004, Mr. Antoun served as the President and CEO of Pixim, Inc., an imaging solution provider for the video surveillance market, between March 2004 and November 2004. From February 2000 to August 2003, Mr. Antoun served as the President and CEO of MediaQ, Inc., a mobile handheld graphics IC company acquired by NVIDIA Corporation in August 2003. From January 1991 to February 2000, Mr. Antoun held a variety of positions with LSI Logic Corporation, most recently serving as Executive Vice President of the Consumer Products Division from 1998 until his departure in January 2000. Mr. Antoun has served as a Director of HPL Technologies, Inc. since August 2000 and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of HPL Technologies, Inc. since July 2002.

 

 

Chris Day, President and CEO
Chris Day is the President and CEO of Mobilygen. Chris has over 22 years of experience in the semiconductor industry with the last twelve in digital video. Prior to Mobilygen, Chris was General Manager of Media Processing at Philips Semiconductor (now NXP), where he successfully led Philips Trimedia DSP efforts into security, PMP, video-over-IP, automotive, and display markets. Before Philips, Chris was Senior Marketing Director for C-Cube Microsystems, the market leader in MPEG video compression. Chris also held senior sales and marketing positions at AuraVision, Motorola, and Hitachi (UK). Chris has a BSc in Computer and Microprocessor Systems from Essex University, UK, and an MBA from Santa Clara University in California.

 

 

 
Sorin Cismas, CTO and Founder

Sorin Cismas is the CTO and founder of Mobilygen.  Sorin has extensive experience in digital video, computer architecture, and video compression. Prior to founding Mobilygen, Sorin was the Chief Scientist at Zoran Corporation, after the acquisition in 1996 of CompCore Multimedia, where he was the CTO and co-founder.  CompCore produced market leading MPEG video IP cores and DVD software, and was acquired because of its dominant position in the SoftDVD market, positive cash flow, and MPEG expertise. At the time of the merger, the founders and the employees owned 95% of the company.
Before CompCore, Sorin was Senior Design Engineer at LSI Logic and the lead architect/designer of the video unit in Sony PlayStation.  His design exceeded Sony's performance requirements and used only a third of the die size estimated by LSI Logic when the deal was negotiated.  For the next few years, LSI Logic revenues from this chip reached more than $200M per year, leading to a more than 10x run-up in LSI stock price.

Sorin has a BSEE and MSEE from the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute.  Prior to coming to the U.S., Sorin was a research engineer at the Romanian Institute for Computer Technology where he developed parallel architectures for image processing.  Math remains to this day one of his hobbies.

 
   
 

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