Management

Ramana Jampala, President and CEO. Ramana has 17 years of work experience in the technology sector, ranging from design engineering to venture investing in technology start-ups. Most recently, Ramana was a general partner with SAS Investors, a technology focused Venture Capital fund. Prior to that, he worked with Viant as a strategy lead in San Francisco to implement digital initiatives of Fortune 500 companies and high-technology start-ups. Ramana began his career at Rockwell Automation (Allen-Bradley) in the Control and Communications Group, working as a systems design engineer for seven years. He has also served as a board member of HydroGlobe (acquired by Graver Technologies) and Reactive Nanotechnologies. Currently, Ramana is a member of the board of directors of CebaTech, Velox Semiconductor, and Lightspeed Audio. Ramana holds an MBA from London Business School and graduated with distinction with a BS in Electronics Engineering from Pune University, India.

Joe Rash, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing. Joe has over 20 years of experience with developing and bringing to market complex semiconductor and software products that address the needs of the data communications and enterprise storage market segments. Most recently, Joe was the Senior Business Development Manager for Qimonda Corporation’s Networking and Storage Memory product line where he helped launch a new product line focused on meeting the specific needs of the networking and storage industries. Joe began his career at IBM Corporation where he developed ASICs and firmware for communication co-processor adapter cards and ATM switches and routers. He has held the position of Design Manager at Nortel Networks and Director of Engineering at Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. Joe is the co-author of seven chip design and data networking patents and serves on the Industry Advisory Board of North Carolina State University's College of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Joe holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida.

Chad Spackman, CTO and Co-founder. Chad is a veteran in the ASIC/ semiconductor industry who has 15 years of semiconductor design. Achievements include over a dozen analog designs for various foundries, six large-scale communications ASIC designs in the communications sector, and, most recently, design of a complete TCP/IP TOE engine that was licensed to a major semiconductor company. He is also the co-author of five patents in the semiconductor field. Spackman began his career as senior engineer with Fischer & Porter; led ASIC design for Connectware, Inc.; and served as co-founder and president of Sandgate Technologies. Chad holds a Bachelor of Physics, and Bachelor and Masters Degrees in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State University, respectively.

Adrian Port, Co-founder and Chief Technologist, Networking and Communications. Adrian has over 20 years of experience in R&D, encompassing software development as well as complex communication ASICs in the ATM and Ethernet industries and related board- and box-level products. Adrian led the development effort that completed the TCP/IP TOE engine licensed to a major semiconductor company, mentioned above. He spent 14 years with Fischer & Porter in areas including ASIC development and fast packet switching systems; directed ATM ASIC development for Connectware, Inc.; and served as co-founder and president of Sandgate Technologies. Adrian holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Monash University (Australia), and an MBA in Finance from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, in both cases graduating with distinction. He is also the co-author, with Chad Spackman, of five patents in the semiconductor field.