Board of Directors

Dave Holt is an experienced senior-level executive who has been involved in the management of both established and start-up companies for more than 26 years. At Lightspeed Logic, Mr. Holt has successfully transitioned the company to an IP business model. He was the founding member of two pioneering organizations advancing system architectures, and has broad experience in both semiconductors and software.

Prior to joining Lightspeed Logic, Mr. Holt was vice president and general manager of ATI Research Silicon Valley, Inc. which in 1998 acquired Chromatic Research, Inc. where he was co-founder and president. Prior to Chromatic, Mr. Holt held various executive management and engineering positions at SHOgraphics, Convex Computer Corporation, and MOSTEK Corporation. Mr. Holt earned a BSEE from the University of Missouri and an Executive MBA from Southern Methodist University. Dave is an active volunteer with the Boy Scouts and as a referee for youth soccer organizations.

Arati Prabhakar joined U.S. Venture Partners in 2001 after 15 years of working with world-class engineers and scientists across many fields to brew new technologies. At USVP, her focus is fabless semiconductor and semiconductor infrastructure opportunities. She serves on the boards of Arradiance, Kilopass, Kleer, Leadis Technology (NASDAQ: LDIS), Lightspeed Logic, Pivotal Systems, and SiBeam.

Arati was a program manager and then director of the Microelectronics Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1986 to 1993. At DARPA, she supported R&D in company and university labs in semiconductor manufacturing, imaging, optoelectronics and nanoelectronics. In 1993, President Clinton appointed Arati Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she led the 3,000 person staff until 1997. Arati then joined Raychem as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. She was subsequently Vice President and then President of Interval Research Corporation. Arati began her career as a Congressional fellow at the Office of Technology Assessment.

Arati serves on advisory committees for Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, and UC Santa Barbara. She is a Fellow of the IEEE. Arati received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. She received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology.

Bill Unger has been a partner at Mayfield Fund since 1984. Bill was an early investor in such industry leaders as Sandisk (SNDK), Silicon Architects (acquired by Synopsys [SNPS]), Calico Commerce (CLIC, acquired by Peoplesoft/Oracle), nChip (acquired by Flextronics [FLEX]), Newport Communications (acquired by Broadcom [BRCM]), Simplex Solutions and Verplex Design Systems (both acquired by Cadence [CDN]) and Excess Bandwidth Corporation (acquired by Globespan). Today, he serves on the boards of Lightspeed Logic, Bandspeed, and Papilia and is on the advisory boards of several other privately held companies.

Bill has always dedicated time to philanthropic activities. Currently he serves as a board member of CARE USA, YouthNoise, and The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and is on the advisory boards of the Dean of Engineering of The University of California at Berkeley, the Dean of Engineering of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Environmental Entrepreneurs, the Global Philanthropy Forum, and the Entrepreneurs Foundation.

Bill Jennings is the Vice President of Engineering in the Internet Systems Business Unit for Cisco Systems' Internet Switching and Solutions Group. Jennings is responsible for the engineering of Cisco's high-performance switching platform, the Catalyst 6500, which has been recognized throughout the industry with several awards for its Layer 2-7 product leadership.

During his Cisco career, Jennings has been awarded eleven networking related patents. These patents include inventions for network computer architectures, network hardware forwarding, and network system design.

Prior to joining Cisco in 1994, Jennings was the first engineer hired by Coral Networks in Westborough, MA. During his five-year tenure at Coral, he was the principal engineer in the development of high-performance backbone routers and switches. Prior to Coral, Jennings held positions at Quadram Corp. in Norcross, GA and Edsun Laboratories in Waltham, MA.

Charlie Huang is a 14-year veteran of the electronic design automation industry who has experience as a technologist, manager, entrepreneur, CEO, and senior executive. Mr. Huang was a General Partner at Telos Venture Partners in 2004 and 2005, after serving as Corporate Vice President of Integrated Circuit Solutions Business Development at Cadence Design Systems. He held a variety of responsibilities at Cadence including product line management, product marketing and strategy, business development, mergers & acquisitions, and foundry relationships.

Before joining Cadence, he co-founded CadMOS Design Technology, a company that provided solutions to signal integrity problems in ultra deep sub-micron processes. As CEO of CadMOS, Mr. Huang raised venture capital from a variety of investors and managed the company through its successful acquisition by Cadence in 2001. Prior to CadMOS, he was VP of R&D at EPIC Design Technology, a start up that pioneered static timing analysis, fastmos, and RC extraction technologies for IC designs. He was responsible for the development of EPIC's flagship products, PowerMill and PathMill tools. Subsequent to EPIC Design's successful IPO in 1996, it was acquired by Synopsys and Charlie was named Vice President of R&D in the EPICTechnology Group.

Charlie holds Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and an MSEE and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a U.S. patent on piecewise linear event driven simulation.

David Dury is co-founder of the Mentor Capital Group, LLC, an advisory and investment firm specializing in “mentoring” the CEOs of start-up technology companies. Prior to starting MCG in 2000, Dave was Chief Financial Officer of Aspect Development, Inc. from 1995 through their IPO in 1996 and the sale of the company in June of 2000.

Dave is veteran of over 25 years in management of growth companies in Silicon Valley.  He began at Intel in 1979, progressing through several financial and operating management positions. After Intel he has held the positions of CFO, and President and Chief Operating Officer at several private and public technology companies including Priam Corporation, Boole & Babbage, and Aspect Development.

Dave also serves on the Board of Directors of Intevac, Inc (IVAC) and Conformia Software. He holds a BA from Duke University and an MBA from Cornell University.