Russell Johnsen

Mr. Johnsen is currently the Chairman of the Board of Mercury Computer Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY), which provides specialized, high-performance computing systems and software designed for embedded applications in aerospace and defense, telecommunications, medical imaging, semiconductor, EDA, and more. Mr. Johnsen was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sirific Wireless Limited, a provider of integrated circuits for the telecommunications market from 2007 until its acquisition by Icera in 2008. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as the CEO of the Occtane Group, a private company which developed and operated a proprietary network of interactive display terminals from 2005 to 2007. From 2003 through 2007, Mr. Johnsen was also President of Delumina, Inc., a technology investment and strategy consulting firm. From 1993 through 2002, Mr. Johnsen was with Analog Devices, Inc., a supplier of high performance analog, mixed signal, and digital signal processing integrated circuits. He served as the company's Vice President of Corporate Business Development in 2002, and as the Vice President and General Manager of the Analog Devices Communications Products Division from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that he served in various senior management capacities at National Semiconductor Corporation.

Rajeev Varshneya

Mr. Varshneya is a Venture Partner at Blade Ventures, has over 25 years of corporate experience in running technology centric businesses with senior executive roles in technology, strategy, operations, strategic investments, and general management.  Prior to joining the firm, as a part of a Fortune 100 company, he managed businesses in Europe, Asia and United States and, in his last position he was the CTO of emerging businesses in wireless/multi-media consumer electronics products. He has been a founder CEO of a product-software company in India that he ran between 1995 and 1999 and the CIO of a multi-billion business prior to that. Mr. Varshneya currently serves on the boards of MetricStream Inc. and Vigilistics Inc. He holds a BSc (Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering) from New Delhi, India and an ME (Electronics) from Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Farrokh Billimoria

Farrokh Billimoria is currently a Special Advisor for India to Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and the School of Engineering. He is also on Stanford University’s Fulbright Screening Committee for the Fulbright Scholars Program.Farrokh Billimoria was most recently at Artiman Ventures, a fund he founded, focused on US-India cross-border deals, which leverage India not just for development centers but also address the markets in India. Before Artiman, he was at the Sprout Group (CSFB Venture affiliate) as a General Partner since 1999. Prior to that he was at Hambrecht & Quist (now JP Morgan/H&Q) where he was a Wall Street Analyst covering network infrastructure.  He was actively involved in the corporate finance and venture capital initiatives at Hambrecht & Quist.  The Wall Street Journal ranked him as an All-Star Analyst for a number of years. Previously, Farrokh was a Managing Director at Bankers Trust (acquired by Deutsche Bank) for 8 years where he was the executive responsible for the global infrastructure. He has held senior managerial roles in development engineering with various networking equipment companies and service providers. Farrokh has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Computer Science.

Subhasish Mitra

Prof. Mitra is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Stanford University where he leads the Stanford Robust Systems Group. Prior to joining Stanford, Prof. Mitra was a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation. Prof. Mitra has co-authored 100+ technical papers, and has invented design and test techniques that have seen wide-spread proliferation in the semiconductor industry. His X-Compact technique for test compression is used by 50+ Intel products, and is supported by major CAD tools. His work on imperfection-immune circuits using carbon nanotubes, jointly with his students and collaborators, has been highlighted as "a significant breakthrough" by the Semiconductor Research Corporation, MIT Technology Review, EE Times, and several others.

Prof. Mitra's major honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, the highest honor bestowed by the US government on early career outstanding scientists and engineers), National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Terman Fellowship, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Donald O. Pederson Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, a Divisional Recognition Award from Intel "for a Breakthrough Soft Error Protection Technology," a Best Paper Award at the Intel Design and Test Technology Conference for his work on Built-In Soft Error Resilience, and the Intel Achievement Award, Intel's highest corporate honor, "for the development and deployment of a breakthrough test compression technology.