SiPort Board of Directors
Aiman Kabakibo
CEO
Andrew R. Garman
New Venture Partners LLC, Managing Partner
Andy Garman is a founder and co-head of New Venture Partners, an early stage venture fund based in Murray Hill, NJ with a focus on corporate technology spinouts. Founded in 2001, the firm currently has about $700M under management. Andy has over twenty years experience in venture capital investment and commercialization of institutional technology. Previously he was an executive at Lucent Technologies, building ventures sourced from Bell Labs, and Xerox Corporation, developing commercial businesses from Xerox PARC. Most recently, he has served on the boards of New Venture Partners’ investments Azure Solutions (acquired by Subex), Vallent (acquired by IBM), Celiant (acquired by Andrew), Vidus (acquired by @Road), Psytechnics, and Ibiquity Digital (as an observer). He holds MBA and MS Mechanical Engineering degrees from Stanford University and an AB in Engineering and Applied Physics from Harvard College.
T. W. Kang
T. W. Kang is Managing Director of Global Synergy Associates, a management consulting firm focusing on enhancing global competence of multinational high technology firms. List of Fortune 500 clients include Philips Electronics, Daimler Benz, Siemens, IBM Corporation, Intel Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric, and the Samsung Group. From 1979-90, he held various management positions with Intel Corporation involving marketing and product planning for the worldwide market and management in Japan and Korea. His most recent position with Intel was as System Group General Manager at Intel Japan. He earned his BSEE degree from MIT, and MBA from the Harvard Business School, and is author of six books in English, Japanese, and Korean including IS KOREA THE NEXT JAPAN and GAISHI, THE FOREIGN COMPANY IN JAPAN.
Drew Lanza
Morgenthaler Ventures, General Partner
Drew Lanza joined Morgenthaler, in California, in 2000 and became a General Partner in 2001. Drew focuses on semiconductors and components, and he also works with materials and devices and large systems. He is currently a Director of Brion Technologies, Cortina Systems, Overture Networks, Ultradots Inc. and Unity Semiconductor. He also regularly attends Caspian, Wave7 Optics and Xoomsys board meetings. Drew spent 15 years in senior operating positions in the telecommunications industry starting companies in both the components and the systems sectors of that industry. He served as Senior VP of Marketing at MAYAN Networks, building aggregation systems for the metropolitan edge market. Prior to that Drew was a founder and VP of Engineering at E/O Networks where he helped to design and produce a long reach rural fiber optic telephony system. Drew started his optical telecommunications career in 1986 at Raynet, a pioneering company in the development of fiber to the home technologies. Drew's many roles at Raynet included VP of Marketing and VP of International Development. Drew was the founding CEO of Lightwave Microsystems, a leader in the design and manufacture of high volume optical integrated circuits. Drew graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with an MBA in 1987. He received his BSEE & MSEE degrees from Stanford in 1979.
Richard L. Sanquini
Chairman of the Board
Richard had a twenty-year tenure at National Semiconductor, where he managed key business units, including microprocessors and microcontrollers, served as the chief technology officer, managed business development and intellectual property protection, and was the Chairman of two joint ventures in China. Prior to National Semiconductor, he was the President and CEO of Information Storage Devices and General Manager and Director of the memory and microprocessor businesses at RCA. Richard is currently the Chairman of the Board of PortalPlayer and a member of the Board of Synaptics, Zilog and two private companies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Wisconsin.
Christopher J. Schaepe
Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Partner
Christopher J. Schaepe is a founding general partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners, an early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA. He has 14 years of venture capital experience and focuses on investments in the areas of infrastructure technologies, semiconductors and digital media. Mr. Schaepe has been responsible for investments including AMEC, Brocade, Ciena, Combinet, Galileo Technology, LightLogic, Lightspeed International, Premisys, Quantum Effect Devices, Rhythm NewMedia, Riverbed, SemEquip, SiPort, Terayon, Transmeta, Tzero and Unity. Prior to joining Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners in 1991, Mr. Schaepe served in corporate finance and capital markets roles at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Previously, he was a software engineer at IBM. Mr. Schaepe holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Stanford Business School.