Board of Directors

K.C. Murphy - President and CEO, co-founder

K.C. is a semiconductor veteran with more than 25 years of experience, including a previous semiconductor startup and time spent with some of the industry's best known companies: AMD, Cadence and Broadcom. Prior to NextIO, K.C. was an Executive Officer of Broadcom and the VP/GM of Broadcom's RF and Advanced Mixed Signal Group. K.C. joined Broadcom through Broadcom's acquisition of Pivotal Technologies, a successful semiconductor startup company in Pasadena, CA, where he was President and CEO. Before Pivotal, K.C. was Executive Vice President, Strategic Business Group and Corporate Strategy, at Cadence Design Systems. K.C. joined Cadence after many years at AMD where his last position was Vice President, Corporate Strategy and PC Systems.

George Ugras - Adams Capital Management

George joined Adams Capital Management in 1999 as a General Partner, after spending a year as an investment professional at Apax Partners, a private equity firm in New York. Prior to joining Apax Partners, George spent four years as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York, working closely with clients in the telecommunications and media industries, on strategic and operational issues. George makes investments in and works with portfolio companies in the telecommunications, networking, and semiconductor industries.

Wayne Cantwell - Crescendo Ventures

Wayne joined Crescendo Ventures in early 2003 after spending nearly 20 years in the semiconductor and SIP industries. Immediately prior to Crescendo, Wayne served as President and CEO of inSilicon Corporation where he led the company through an IPO and several successful acquisitions. Before assuming the role of CEO at inSilicon, Wayne was responsible for overseeing Phoenix Technologies' worldwide field operations where he grew the organization to over 400 people and $125 million in globally distributed business. Wayne has extensive international experience, having run operations in Japan, Taiwan, and Europe but has spent most of the last seven years based in the Bay Area. Prior to his role with Phoenix Technologies, Wayne held various sales and engineering positions with Intel Corporation and NEC Corporation. At Crescendo, Wayne is focused on working with companies in the semiconductor, SIP and technical software arenas as well as providing operational experience and support to Crescendo's portfolio companies.

Rick Marz - LSI Logic

Rick is responsible for the development and coordination of LSI Logic's global customer, channel, product and technology strategies in the company's target markets, including Communications, Consumer and Storage Components. Previously, Marz was LSI Logic's executive vice president of ASIC Technology, overseeing the company's ASIC design methodology, technology marketing and global design center resources. Earlier, Marz served as LSI Logic's executive vice president of Geographic Markets, managing the company 's worldwide sales, distribution, ASIC design and Mint Technology activities. Prior to joining LSI Logic in 1995, he was vice president of Sales and Marketing for the Americas for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Marz received his bachelor of science degree in Industrial Management from Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1966.

Chris Pettey - CTO, co-founder

Chris has more than 15 years of experience delivering high-performance I/O silicon for PC's and Servers. Prior to NextIO, Chris was co-founder, CTO and a member of the Board of Directors of Banderacom, a semiconductor startup focused on InfiniBand. Before co-founding Banderacom, Chris was a chip architect and designer for Jato Technologies, a startup semiconductor company that delivered Gigabit Ethernet. Chris joined Jato after several years at Compaq (now part of HP) where he worked in several engineering capacities developing silicon and standards for server I/O. Chris began his career with NCR.