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Federico Faggin is a well-known technologist and Silicon Valley visionary, and was one of the original designers of the first commercial microprocessor at Intel.

In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Obama. He was the co-founder, president and CEO of Synaptics as well as president and CEO of Foveon from 2003 to 2008.

Perham is a successful entrepreneur with more than 30 years of executive leadership and semiconductor industry experience. Perham retired from Integrated Device Technology in 2000 and served as chairman of the board of NetLogic Microsystems prior to its acquisition by Broadcom in 2012.

From 1991 to 2000, Perham served as CEO of Integrated Device Technology (IDT). Perham has helped incubate several companies under the IDT umbrella, including Galileo Technology (acquired by Marvell Technology), Quantum Effect Devices (acquired by PMC-Sierra), Monolithic System Technology (now MoSys, Inc.), Clear-Logic and Centaur Technology.

Rosati specializes in corporate law and technology companies, and is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

He is an ex officio member of the firm's board of directors and currently serves as the managing partner of WS Investments, which has invested in a number of successful emerging companies. Rosati was an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where he taught new venture finance for 16 years.

Peaxy CEO and President Manuel Terranova is a technology veteran with a proven track record of bringing emerging technologies to market. He has a broad range of business and technical leadership experience in oil and gas, subsea equipment, software application development, pipeline inspection robotics, telemetry systems and IT infrastructure.

Before co-founding Peaxy, Terranova was at General Electric’s Drilling and Production business, where he led a $5.2 billion portfolio as a Senior Vice President. He managed the company’s commercial and regional resources worldwide, including the creation of a $200 million subsea equipment joint venture in sub-Saharan Africa. During his 13 years at GE, he led a number of successful software development efforts, including a GIS software business, remote pipeline monitoring and SupportCentral, a knowledge-based portal that grew to become the company’s second most used application worldwide. Terranova served as CIO of GE’s Oil & Gas division from 2002 to 2006. In that role he led efforts to migrate the entire business from legacy applications to ERP and a contemporary application stack.

In 2010—as head of GE’s subsea portfolio—he led a series of successful product launches, including a remotely enabled subsea control system that set industry records for market-share gains in a single year.
Since 2013 Terranova has been actively engaged as a committee member with the National Academies of Science and the National Transportation Board. His involvement has helped advance the safety of offshore oil and gas operations.

Luciano Dalle Ore is a seasoned storage veteran who held executive positions in industry-leading companies such as Quantum/Snap, Z-Force/Attune, Lumenare and SMApper. He was one of the core members of the team that developed the original iSCSl standard. He has taken responsibility for major enterprise-level products, and focuses on hands-on product development and management. Luciano is a published scholar and technology consultant and holds an MSEE from Stanford University.

Jim McGlothlin spent eight years at GE as a General Manager in the pipeline inspection and Aero Energy businesses. After his tenure at GE he ran Wood Group Power Solutions’ EPC business. He has spent his entire career in the power generation and oil & gas industries, including new project development, rotating equipment experience and operations.

Gary Leonard spent 34 years at GE and led its $3 billion Distributed Power Gas Turbine business from 2013 to 2016. He brings deep expertise in research, engineering, product management and development, and power plant design. Leonard led a global team of 400 engineers focused on developing GE’s next generation of aircraft engines, gas turbines, diesel engines, wind turbines and solar/geothermal thermal products. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.