Faraj Aalaei
Centillium communications
CEO & Co-Founder

Faraj Aalaei is Chief Executive Officer and one of co-founders of Centillium communications. Aalaei has more than 19 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to co-founding Centillium, Mr. Aalaei was the Director of Access Products at Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of fiber-optic transmission and broadband switching platforms, from October 1993 to March 1997. Mr. Aalaei also designed advanced telecommunications products at AT&T Bell Laboratories, a telecommunications company, from May 1985 to October 1993. Mr. Aalaei received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an M.B.A. from the University of New Hampshire.

Prakash C. Agarwal
NeoMagic
President & CEO

As a co-founder, he has been President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of NeoMagic since its inception in 1993. Mr. Agarwal has over 20 years of engineering, marketing, and general management experience in the semiconductor industry, including having served as Vice President and General Manager of Cirrus Logic 's Portable Product Division. Mr. Agarwal holds a BS and a MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois. Under his leadership, NeoMagic went public in March 1997, became one of the fastest growing semiconductor companies, and led the industry in providing multimedia accelerators to notebook PC makers with over 60% market share. In June of 1998, Mr. Agarwal was awarded the 1998 Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" for excellence and extraordinary success in innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to his business and his community. He is also a member of the board of Directors of Zeevo, also a fabless semiconductor company.

Reza Ahy
Aperto
President & CEO

Prior to founding Aperto Networks, Dr. Ahy held executive and technical senior management positions with Harris Corporation, Varian Research Center and RadioLAN, focused on businesses and products in broadband wireless & high-speed optical communications systems. Dr.

Ahy earned his BSEE and MSEE from the University of California, San Diego and his Ph.D.EE from Stanford University.

Anoosheh Ansari
Telecom Technologies Inc.
Founder

Anousheh Ansari once dreamed of being an astronaut while growing up in her native Tehran, Iran. Today the 34-year-old Anoosheh is the Vice President and General Manager of the IntelligentIP division of Sonus Networks, formed in January 2001 through Sonus' acquisition of ÒTelecom Technologies Inc.Ó, the company that Anoosheh founded and turned into a force in the telecommunication industry. Immediately prior to founding Telecom Technologies, Anoosheh provided consulting services to the major telecommunications service providers and vendors in the areas of frame relay and ATM switch testing and evaluation.

Her early career employment included positions with MCI Telecommunications Corporation and Communication Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) in various engineering capacities working on architectural design for SS7 and ISDN networks. Anoosheh was the recipient of Working Woman Magazine's National and Regional Entrepreneurial Excellence award for General Excellence and Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year¨ Award, Southwest Region, for the Technology and Communications category. She has authored numerous technical papers and holds two patents for her work on automated operator services and wireless service node. She was a U.S. delegate at ITU SG VII, SG XI and SG XVII, and a representative at American National Standard Institute technical subcommittees.

She holds a master's of science degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University and a bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from George Mason University. She is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu, IEEE and NSPE.

Boris Auerbuch
Terawave Communications
CTO \Co-founder
and Former CTO of Premisys Communications .


Mr. Auerbuch was co-founder, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer of Premisys Communications from 1990 to 1999.

Previous to Premisys, Mr. Auerbuch was Vice President of Engineering of Telco Systems Network Access Corporation.

Harry H. Davoody
ST Assembly Test Services Ltd. ("STATS") - (Nasdaq: STTS)
Former CEO

Harry H. Davoody joined STATS as Chief Executive Officer in January 2002. Previous to joining STATS, he was the Vice-President/General Manager of Digital Audio Video Products Group, a start-up division of Texas Instruments, responsible for digital consumer and multimedia mixed-signal audio/video/imaging products. He has also served as Vice-President/General Manager of the Mixed-Signal DSP Solutions Division, a major element of Texas Instruments' overall mixed-signal business. Davoody graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington, Texas in 1979. He earned a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University in 1982 and a Master's of Business Administration from the University of Dallas in 1987.

Harry Davoody is now on to his next opportunity in High-tech industry as a high profile executive with an impressive background.

Ashok Dhawan
Lucent Technologies
President, Broadband Access Group

Ashok is President of Broadband Access Division at Lucent. As President of this division, he is responsible for DSLAM, DLC and CPE product lines including Stinger, Anymedia and Cellpipe. Ashok started the DSL business for Ascend in 1996 . After Ascend was acquired by Lucent, he continued to manage the broadband access business and was able to gain leadership position in this market segment. His entrepreneurial style of management demands ultra high productivity from technical and marketing professionals

Previously, Ashok has held VP of Marketing, Engineering and General Management positions at Amdahl, Micom, Emulex, Rockwell and Retix. In each of these companies, he was responsible for developing new networking/communication businesses. He has been at the leading edge of networking technology and business developments for the last twenty five years

He holds B.Tech from IIT Kanpur, India and MSEE degree from University of Washington. He has authored several articles and papers in technical and trade magazines.

Mory Ejabat
Zhone Technologies, Inc
Chairman & CEO

Mory Ejabat is chairman and CEO of Zhone Technologies, Inc. Zhone is a newly formed company pioneering the development of next-generation communications equipment to enable carriers and service providers to cost effectively offer high-bandwidth services independently of the existing local loop communications infrastructure.

Before Zhone, Mr. Ejabat was president and CEO of Ascend Communications, Inc., which was sold to Lucent Technologies in 1999 for $24 billion. Ascend was the leader in wide area network (WAN) solutions for providers and users of the Public Network. Mr. Ejabat joined Ascend in 1990 as vice president of operations, assuming increasingly strategic roles within the company during his career there. He served as president, COO, and director of Ascend before its IPO in 1995. Under Mr. Ejabat's leadership, Ascend's annual sales grew from $40 million to nearly $2.3 billion in just over five years, with an increase in personnel from less than 100 to more than 3,000 full-time employees by the end of 1998. Ascend's business success was achieved both through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, the most notable being the $3.7 billion purchase of Cascade Communications in 1997 and of Stratus Computer Corporation in 1998.

Earlier, Mr. Ejabat was vice president for wide area communications products at Micom Systems, Inc., where he had total P&L responsibility for the WAN product line. Mr. Ejabat received his BSIE and his MS in systems engineering from California State University at Northridge, and he holds an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Kamran Elahian
Global Catalyst Partners
Venture Capitalist, Managing Principal

Kamran Elahian is a veteran entrepreneur with over 27 years of experience in the high-tech industry. He is currently Chairman of Global Catalyst Partners, a global venture capital fund for investments in communication product companies, which he co-founded in 1999. He also serves as Chairman of ten other companies.
Kamran co-founded ten companies: CAE Systems ('81) a software company; acquired by Tektronix for $75M, Cirrus Logic ('84) a fabless semiconductor company; IPO at $150M valuation, Momenta ('89) a pen-based computer company; failed within 3 years, NeoMagic ('93) a mobile multimedia IC company; IPO at $300M valuation, PlanetWeb ('96) a communication software company for Internet appliances, Centillium Communications ('97) a telecommunication IC company; IPO at $700M valuation, Actelis Networks ('99) a broadband telecommunications systems company, Informative ('99) a customer feedback solutions software company, Entopia ('99) a knowledge management software company, and Greenfield Networks ('01) a telecommunication IC company.
Kamran also founded Schools Online ('96) a non-profit pubic charity organization with the goal to bring the Internet to every school in the world, and co-founded Global Catalyst Foundation ('00).

Farr Farhan
Movaz Networks
Chief Development Officer

Before joining Movaz, Fariborz ("Farr") Farhan was Director/Vice President of Engineering at Scientific Atlanta. While there, he invented digital return for the cable industry, and was responsible for over fifteen patent applications in less than eighteen months. His design and architecture track record covers telecom and datacom systems, ASICs, hardware/software, protocols, O-E/E-O. Moreover, Farr has a long list of successful product deliveries, and has created and delivered several product concepts. Before joining Scientific-Atlanta, Farr formed an integration/design verification organization for Pulsecom. Before that he spent over 6 years at Nortel Networks in the area of Transmission Systems. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and has published several papers in technical conferences and journals. Farr holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from GA Tech with significant Post-Grad work.

Feyzi Fatehi
Endeavors Technology
Senior Vice President
Worldwide Field Operations

As Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Endeavors Technology, Feyzi Fatehi is responsible for all the field operations including Sales and Marketing, Strategic Alliances, industry representation, and building the firm's business relationships with System Integrators, VARs and OEMs. Prior to joining Endeavors - a Peer-to-Peer Secure Enterprise Web Services and Collaboration Software provider, he was vice-president of business development at Jamcracker, Inc., - a silicon valley based provider of web-enabled workspace for IT and business applications- where he was responsible for all technology and business alliances as well as all sales and go-to-market channel partnerships. Fatehi's earlier career was with Hewlett-Packard, where he assumed positions of increasing responsibilities during his fourteen-year period with the company including serving as the first Worldwide VAR Channel manager for HP's multibillion-dollar enterprise server business, and later as Director of Strategic Alliances, Channels and Enterprise e-Services and Solutions for Asia Pacific with over $1 billion business responsibility for computing, storage, consulting and services business.

Fatehi has been published on various IT, and business topics, including authoring a Partnerships and Alliances section for the recently published "Service Provider Strategy" by Prentice Hall and contributing to a case study on Global Alliances Strategies with Harvard Business School published in 2000. He has delivered multiple keynote speeches at industry events, including at ASP Channels Conference in San Francisco, European Service Provider Summit in Rome and Marketing Telecoms to Corporate Customers in London. He founded HP Alumni Association in February 2000, which has grown to over a thousand membership with broad representation across high-tech industry, and serves as the Chairman of the International Business Development Network (www.IBDNetwork.com), a Silicon Valley based network of high-tech Sales, Marketing and Business Development executives.

Fatehi holds a BS in engineering (University of Texas), an MS in computer science (Southwest Texas State University), and an MBA in business-to-business and international marketing management (Santa Clara University).

Aaron Gershenberg
Managing Director
Venture Capital Group

Aaron Gershenberg is a Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank's Sand Hill Venture Capital Group. He is responsible for equity investments and venture fund management as well as managing relationships with the Bank's venture capital firm clients. Mr. Gershenberg is a Managing Director and Board Member of SVB Strategic Investors Fund, a $136 million Fund of Funds. He is an Investment Manager for Silicon Valley BancVentures, a $56 million direct equity Limited Partnership that co-invests alongside top-tier venture funds in early stage technology companies. He is also a member of the Bank's Investment Committee. Prior to joining the Bank, in 1999, Mr. Gershenberg was the managing director of the Northern California region for FIRSTCORP, a venture leasing company. With FIRSTCORP, he successfully established the Northern California regional office and developed strong relationships with venture capital firms and service providers. Mr. Gershenberg has also served as a senior consultant for Deloitte & Touche and as vice president of investment banking for Union Bank of California. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Wesleyan University, and a master's degree in public policy and finance from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Farzad Ghazvinian
Teledesic Network
CTO & Senior Vice President

Farzad Ghazvinian has overall responsibility for the technical definition, development and deployment of the Teledesic Network, including the satellite constellation, control segment and user equipment. Prior to joining Teledesic, Ghazvinian was vice president of the communications systems group at LinCom Corporation, where he developed the commercial business division and supported several NASA satellite communication systems. Ghazvinian graduated with honors in electrical engineering from the Imperial College of London, holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles and received a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. He joined the company in February 1995.

Ross Haghighat
Triton Systems
Founder, Chairman and CEO

Mr. Haghighat is founder and Chairman of the Board of Triton Systems, Inc., a leading edge nanotechnology portfolio company in Boston, Massachusetts. Triton Systems incubates disruptive product solutions in the fields of life science and engineering, nanoelectronics and advanced composite technologies. Triton boasts a number of breakthrough products which include high barrier nanocomposites for consumer applications, protective coatings for plastic substrates, flexible electronics, and advanced aerospace composite structures.

Mr. Haghighat also serves as the CEO and Chairman of Elecon, Inc., a leading producer of organic semiconductors. He is responsible for setting the strategic and tactical directions of the firm. Mr. Haghighat also co-founder, and served on the Board of Directors of a photonic-based firm that was acquired by a Fortune 500 company in 1999. Earlier in his career, he managed a high technology group at a consulting firm for 7 years. Mr. Haghighat holds graduate degrees in materials science, organometallic chemistry, and in business administration.

Shahin Hedayat
Centillium Communications
President & Co-Founder

Shahin Hedayat is President and one of co-founders of Centillium communications. Mr. Hedayat served as Vice President, Engineering, Chief Technical Officer and a Director from our inception in February 1997 until January 2000, when he was named President. Mr. Hedayat has more than 15 years experience in the semiconductor industry.

From September 1985 to February 1997, Mr. Hedayat held various positions at Cirrus Logic, including Vice President of Engineering for Computer Telephony products. He was the architect of V.32bis and V.34 products, which achieved multi-million unit shipments. Mr. Hedayat holds six U.S. patents. Mr. Hedayat holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Yousef B. Javadi
Sprint Corporation
President, Sprint International

Yousef B. Javadi was named president of Sprint International in April 2001. In this position, Javadi has responsibility for guiding the build-out of Sprint's global Internet backbone throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, extending IP services to approximately 80 percent of the world's Internet market by the end of 2003.
Prior to joining Sprint, Javadi served as chief operating officer of PRIMUS Telecommunications North America, a global network provider, where he contributed to the growth of PRIMUS's annual revenue from $1 million to $1.2 billion in four years. In addition, he participated in numerous acquisitions and the expansion of the company's network facilities and construction of data centers, switching centers and ATM networks.
Before joining PRIMUS Telecommunications North America, Javadi held a variety of other positions that included vice president of business development for GE Americom, vice president of sales and marketing with Overseas Telecom Inc., director of internet marketing and director of global communications services for MCI.
Javadi earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Masters Degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Yousef Javadi is Chief Operating Officer responsible for managing PRIMUS' future growth plans. He is charged with managing the day-to-day operations, including sales and marketing, carrier services, customer service, and network provisioning. Prior to joining PRIMUS, Mr. Javadi served as Vice President of business development for GE American.
Before his experience at GE American, Mr. Javadi held an executive level position at MCI in marketing and sales support for global products and services. Prior to MCI, he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at OTI.
He received his MBA degree from Harvard Business School. He also holds a BS and MS in engineering from MIT.

Guy Kawasaki
Garage Technology Ventures
Founder/CEO

Guy Kawasaki is a founder of Garage Technology Ventures. Currently, Guy is the Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director, and Chairman of Garage. Prior to this position, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. A noted speaker and the founder of various personal computer companies, Guy was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer. He is also the author of seven books including Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. Guy holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from UCLA, as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

WILLIAM F. MACKENZIE
Centillium Communications
VP of Operations and Manufacturing

Mackenzie has more than 14 years of experience in the semiconductor and communications industries. Mackenzie spent more than eight years with LSI Logic Corporation in the United States and Canada, and four years with Motorola Semiconductors in Scotland. Prior to joining Centillium, Mackenzie was Corporate Director of Customer Quality and Reliability at LSI Logic Corporation. Mackenzie, has been with Centillium since 1998 and has built the operational infrastructure and the subcontractor manufacturing model from the ground up. With extensive experience in the design, fabrication and manufacturing of semiconductor devices, boards, and system-level products, Mackenzie understands the 'fabless' company business model and the multi-faceted challenges facing manufacturers of telecom equipment.

Brom Mahbod
Oracle Corporation
VP of e-Services Platform

Bahram Mahbod is currently a Vice President at Oracle Corporation in charge of the e-Services Platform Division, responsible for transforming Oracle's family of products into the platform of choice for application development and deployment and developing standard configurations for large-scale deployment of enterprise computing infrastructure.
Prior to his current position Dr. Mahbod was the Vice President of Server Technologies at Oracle subsidiary Network Computer, Inc. (now Liberate Technologies, Inc.), where he built the server engineering organization which developed the highly scalable and reliable server infrastructure for network computing and introduced a number of novel concepts in large scale networks.

Since 1989, when he joined Oracle Corporation, Dr. Mahbod has held various senior technical and management positions at Oracle Corporation and has made substantial contributions both technically to the flagship product as well as developing joint partnerships with major financial and banking institutions for ambitious projects aimed at running operations more efficiently.

Prior to joining Oracle Dr. Mahbod was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett Packard Laboratories engaged in research for the corporation. He was a member of the team which developed IRIS, the first prototype of an object-oriented database. He was also involved in building the foundation of network management at HP Labs.

Dr. Mahbod is on the board or advisory board of a number of companies in Silicon Valley and on the East Coast, as well as seed level venture funds. He has been involved in various conferences and academic activities, and is a former member of the organizing committee of COMPCON. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California.

Michael Mansouri
Probix, Inc.
President & CEO
Former CEO of iPas

Michael Mansouri has a 20+ year success record in general management, marketing, and sales in the data communications industry. In addition to other technologies, his background includes broadband, wireless, data, Internet, and remote access security services in industries serving U.S., European and Asian markets.

Michael is the President and CEO of Probix Inc. Probix is the leading provider of Internet Content security software and services. Michael was the Chairman, President, and CEO of iPass Inc. from May 1999 to October 2001. His strategic direction and market vision was the driving force behind the tripling of iPass' network coverage and positioning of iPass as the market leader in the Global Roaming business. Michael drove the company to become the first to offer Global Broadband Roaming (GBR) service for high speed wired and wireless (802.11b) capability through its strategic relationship with Cisco and leading broadband and wireless service providers. iPass' financial performance showcases Michael's ability to dramatically expand revenues, while also driving the company to profitability. In the fall of 2001, iPass was selected by Computerworld magazine as one of the "top 100 emerging companies to watch in 2002". The annual Computerworld Top 100 Emerging Companies list recognizes iPass for the significant value it brings to corporate IT as well as for its creative thinking and ability to execute strategy in emerging markets. Michael Mansouri successfully completed two major fund raising efforts. Michael raised total of $75 million with post money valuations of $150 million and $300 million in years 1999 and 2000.

Prior to 1999, Michael Mansouri was a sought-after executive in the increasingly competitive world of data communications. He joined iPass from Teleglobe Business Solutions. Here, Michael served as the COO of Broadband Services where he developed and launched business Broadband services. Prior to joining Teleglobe, Michael was a corporate officer and VP of Enhanced Data and Internet services at Intermedia Communications/Digex (now MCI WorldCom), an integrated communications service provider. Before Intermedia Communications, Mansouri served as the Executive VP and GM for Advanced Data Services of ACSI/e.spire . While there, he directed the development of the industry's first integrated ATM/FR/Internet service, from concept to commercial launch.

Prior to ACSI, Michael held several senior level management positions over a 10-year period in different divisions of Sprint International (now France Telecom/Global One). He led efforts in global sales, marketing, and business development for Global Messaging Services, Global Value Added Network Systems, and International Multimedia Services.

Michael Mansouri holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Statistics from Utah State University, a Master's of Science degree in Operations Research from George Washington University, and has completed the MIT Sloan School of Management program in corporate strategy.

Abbas Masnavi
Cisco Systems
Principal Network Architect

Abbas Masnavi, is a Lead Network Architect at Cisco Systems. Previously, he was a strategic network planner at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

He is a frequent speaker at networking conferences such as Networkers, Gigabit Ethernet Conference, Broadband Year, IEEE and ACM.

He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Missouri-Columbia and completed his post doctoral research at California Institute of Technology Caltech) in Pasadena, CA.