Founded in 2001, VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (“VeriSilicon”) is a fast growing silicon solutions company providing products and services that enable customers to meet their chip design objectives, accelerate development programs and deliver market proven silicon products – on time and at lower cost.
VeriSilicon specialises in providing expert design services, market leading licensable cores and platforms, industry standard semiconductor IP and scalable ASIC turnkey services across a broad range of application markets, including multimedia, voice and wireless communications. VeriSilicon has an extensive track record of accelerating customer ASIC designs from initial specification to silicon, achieving first silicon success – on time and on spec – and taking customer silicon through to volume production, utilizing its partner network of leading wafer foundries and packaging and test companies in Asia Pacific and China. VeriSilicon’s global customer base of market leading multi-nationals to fabless start-up companies benefit from shorter development cycles, reduced cost of ownership and economies of scale provided by VeriSilicon’s value-added IP platforms, flexible engagement model, superior supply chain management and strong service culture.
With more than 180 highly skilled engineers and design centers worldwide, VeriSilicon’s customers are able to leverage a truly global design services company to support their silicon projects and meet design and cost objectives. VeriSilicon has design, operation and sales and support offices in Santa Clara, California, Dallas, Texas, Shanghai and Beijing, China, Taipei, Taiwan, Tokyo, Japan, Nice, France and Seoul, Korea.
For the third time running, VeriSilicon has been ranked among the top 50 high technology and high growth companies in China (Deloitte Technology Fast 50 China) and among the top 500 high technology and high growth companies in Asia Pacific (Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia)
Wayne Dai is the founder, Chairman, President and CEO of VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. He was the Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Celestry Technologies, Inc., which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002.
Prior to that, he was the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Ultima Interconnect Technology, Inc., one of the predecessor companies to Celestry.
He was the founding Chairman of the IEEE Multi-Chip Module Conference and the founding Chairman of IEEE Symposium on IC/Package Design Integration. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. He has published over 100 papers in technical journals and conferences and received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from the President of United States in 1990.
He was elected as one the top ten venture-backed entrepreneurs in China in 2005, and elected as one of the 2005 top ten talents of science and technology in China.
Howard Tang is Corporate Vice President of Engineering for the Mixed Signal Platform Division. He is managing the R&D team to develop the mixed signal IPs for the mixed signal platforms and the SoC system.
Howard has Over 23 years industry experience in the mixed signal IC design engineering and management. Worked in the analog IC product companies such as Maxim Integrated Products, National Semiconductor, and Motorola over 16 years, he has designed the high accuracy Sigma-delta A/D, high speed pipelined A/D, high speed DAC, low jitter Video PLL and other mixed signal IC products for the industrial and medical application.
He was the VP of Engineering with Shanghai Belling Corp, managed the R&D team to develop the mixed signal and analog ICs for the consumer and communication application.
Howard Tang received the M.S. in EE from University of Utah and the B.S. from Fudan University.
James Jiang is Corporate Vice President of Engineering, Design Services. He has over 20 years industry experience in VLSI engineering and management roles.
Prior to joining VeriSilicon, Mr. Jiang was a Senior Design Manager at Trident Multimedia Technologies (Shanghai), Ltd. and worked at Trident USA in 1998 and 2000, where he led teams to develop cell libraries as well as design tool flows/methodologies for 0.35um, 0.25um and 0.18um technologies.
Prior to Trident, he was team leader of the library development, device modeling and design tools flow at China HuaJing Electronic Group Corporation.
James Jiang received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Fudan University, China and EMBA degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
Jensen Zhang is Corporate Vice President of Engineering, embedded software. He has over 20 years industry experience in engineering and management roles.
Prior to joining VeriSilicon, Jensen was engineering Director at LSI Logic and worked at LSI and C-CUBE from 1998~2006, where he led teams to develop DVD/EVD/CVD/VCD for worldwide customers, especially for VCD/CVD, he successfully led teams to provide turnkey solutions (both software and hardware system) to multiple major China customers and mass productions over 20M sets within two years.
Prior to C-CUBE, he was the Digital R&D manager of Beijing Peony Electronic Group Corporation.
Jensen received his B.S. degree in Physics from Fudan University in 1991, China.
Prasad Kalluri is Corporate Vice President of Engineering, ZSP Products. He has over 20 years of industry experience in engineering and management roles.
Before joining VeriSilicon, Prasad was the general manager of the ZSP division at LSI Logic and prior to that was senior director of engineering responsible for all ZSP products.
Before LSI Logic, Prasad was at Motorola in the Microcontroller group in the Semiconductor Products division. Prasad has a solid track record of bringing together diverse teams and driving projects to develop and deliver successful products.
Prasad Kalluri received his MSEE degree from Texas A&M University.
Nianfeng Li is Corporate Vice President of Design Methodology.
Prior to joining VeriSilicon in April 2005, he held various management and technical lead positions at Synopsys during these 10 years with the company. At Synopsys Professional Service, he successfully led more than 20 ASIC design service projects, ranging from design spec definition to GDSII tape out and designs involving 16M gates and down to 90nm process node, for customers which included world leading semiconductor companies as well as Silicon Valley start ups. He also held technical management positions at Synopsys China and Asia Pacific, and earlier in his career was an analog design engineer.
Nianfeng Li received his MSEE degree at Academia Sinica, China and his BSEE degree at Wuhan University.
An-Ru Cheng is the Corporate Vice President of the Operations. An-Ru has worked at the semiconductor industry for more than 20 years.
Prior to joining VeriSilicon, he established Taiwan logistic operation for NetLogic Microsystems, an US based fabless company. He successfully ramped up production revenue from 10 millions in 2003 to more than 140 million in 2008.
Prior to joining NetLogic, he held varies management positions in product engineering and special projects at Faraday Technologies, a Taiwan based design service company, similar to VeriSilicon.
Before that, he worked for Altera and resided in TSMC for new process development and production ramp up.
Prior to that, he worked for Galvantech and Altima Communications in charge of production planning and control and supply chain management. In the beginning of his career, he worked in Reliability Engineering and Failure Analysis for Quality Semiconductor and National Semiconductor respectively.
Mr.
Sheng Wu is the Corporate Vice President of Purchasing. He has worked at the electronics industry for more than 20 years.
Prior to joining VeriSilicon, he established purchasing and logistic operation for HHIC, a leading fabless company base China. He successfully ramp the production from 10 million units shipment in 2007 to more than 400 million in 2012.
Prior to joining HHIC, he held varies management positions in Asia procurement and operation at Apple Computer. Before that, he worked for Fluke, built up new Asia procurement team to support global equipment manufacture.
Prior to that, he worked for Kodak China, in charge of strategic purchasing and supply chain.
In the beginning of his career, he worked as SQA engineer and localization leader for HP-VeriFone.
He was elected as Fellow of CFLP(China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing) in 2009, and was re-elected consecutively in 2012.
Mr.
Clark Jernigan joined Austin Ventures in 2001, and focuses on hardware, clean tech, and technology services investing.
Previously, he spent four years with Cirrus Logic as Vice President and General Manager of the Communications Products Division and Vice President of New Business Development.
Before joining Cirrus Logic, he spent 12 years in product development engineering at AMD, and one year as a Sell-Side Research Analyst at Alex Brown, covering electronics manufacturing services.
Clark holds an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University.
He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Busby Foundation, which supports central Texas ALS sufferers and their families, and is an advisory board member of SURGE, SXSW Eco, and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship.
Soo Boon has over 30 years of global experience in finance and venture capital investing and brings this valuable expertise to each and every investment. She founded iGlobe Partners in 1999, in which the funds sponsor is the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore, the pre-eminent statutory board responsible for enhancing Singapore’s global economic and business position. iGlobe Partners also started iGlobe Treasury Fund (NZ$31 million fund) in 2003 as a joint venture with the New Zealand Government.
From 1988 to 1999, Soo Boon held executive management positions with Vertex Management Inc., (Vertex), the venture capital arm of Singapore Technologies, managing three funds during her tenure. She established the US operation of Vertex and headed the Silicon Valley office for 9 years, where she was instrumental in the early days of technology transfer for over 100 engineers in Silicon Valley for Chartered Semiconductor and Chartered Microwave.
Ben Yu is a Managing Director at Sierra Ventures. His investment focus includes semiconductors, communications components and systems.
Prior to joining Sierra Ventures he worked at 3Com, where he held a number of engineering and project management positions.
He served as a Board Director of SyChip (acquired by MuRata), Paracer (acquired by Stratos Lightwave) and Micropower (acquired by Weston Presidio). His active investments include AuthenTec, VeriSilicon, Applied Microstructures, Valere Power, Verari and SemEquip. He also serves as a special committee member to Gobi Partners in Shanghai.
Mr. Yu holds a BSEE from the University of Western Australia and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
Datong has more than 20 years of investment and operations experience in the technology and semiconductor industry.
Prior to WestSummit, Datong was a Venture Partner at Northern Light Venture Capital, a leading technology VC fund, where he led investments in the semiconductor industry.
Datong was the Co-Founder and CTO of Spreadtrum Communications (NASDAQ: SPRD), a leading fabless semiconductor company that develops baseband and RF processor solutions for the wireless communications market.
Prior to Spreadtrum, Datong was the Co-Founder and Senior VP for Omnivision (NASDAQ: OVTI), a leading developer of CMOS imaging sensor.
Datong received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and then served as post-doctoral researcher in University of Illinois and Stanford University in USA.
He also worked in National Semiconductor as a senior staff engineer. He holds over 34 U.S. and European patents.
Lisa Lo has extensive experience in direct investment in technology related projects in both Taiwan and North America. At CID, she is responsible for building their China portfolio.
In her earlier career, Lisa joined China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) for 6 years. Serving in both the Direct Investment Department and Overseas Business Department, she was involved in numerous projects which covered PC, semiconductor, communication and material industries in both Taiwan and the United States.
In 1998, she was sent to help setting up CDIB Venture Management (USA) in Silicon Valley, California. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of CDIB and manages USD150 million to invest in North America technology projects. During 1998 through 2003, Lisa was responsible for portfolio building and fund raising process as well as serving on the board of several portfolio companies.
Marco Landi is an independent board director. He has vast experience in the semiconductor industry.
From 1994 to 1997, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Apple Computer, Inc., where he was accountable for the implementation of Apple’s worldwide business plans.
Before that, Marco spent 25 years with Texas Instruments. He was responsible for the national and international marketing and management as President and General Manager of TI Europe. Marco was also President of TI Asia, from 1991 to 1993, during which, the TI Asia more than doubled its net revenues.
From 1998 to 2000, Marco was the President of BMC EMEA, responsible for the entire business, customer satisfaction and quality orientation of the company.
He is now the Chairman of the supervisory board of DiBcom, a leader in mobile DVB-T and DVB-H solution.