Telegent Systems represents a breakthrough opportunity for handset makers, carriers, and broadcasters.
Management Team
Weijie Yun
Executive Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder
Weijie Yun co-founded Telegent in 2004 and has a proven track record of bringing products from conceptual stage to market.
Prior to Telegent, Yun led marketing and product management at Berkana Wireless,
Inc., which was acquired by Qualcomm. He also served as the founding president
& CEO of AIP Networks and was a founder and director of SiTek, Inc., a
spin-off resulting from his work developed at BEI Technologies'
Microengineering Technology Center.
Yun was awarded 2008 Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. Yun holds MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Samuel Sheng
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technical Officer, Co-Founder
Samuel Sheng co-founded Telegent in 2004 and is responsible for setting the company's strategic vision.
A world-renowned expert in CMOS RF and DSP development, Sheng has extensive experience in architecting
and designing leading-edge CMOS RF and DSP chips for silicon tuners, ADSL
transceivers, magnetic recording and DVD RF/servo technologies. He has a
proven track record of sampling first silicon for all the chips developed
under his leadership. Prior to co-founding Telegent Systems, Sheng was at LSI
Logic and responsible for architecting and implementing a series of silicon RF
tuners for video-band applications, targeted for cable modems, analog/digital
video over cable, and voice over IP as well as highly integrated DVD front-end
technologies. Before LSI Logic, Sheng co-led the ADSL front-end (AFE)
development effort at Datapath Systems, Inc.
Sheng was awarded Inventor of the Year at LSI Logic in 2002 and 2003 and was named the 2002 Distinguished Engineer at LSI Logic. He has authored numerous papers and publications on various topics such as low-power CMOS RF wireless systems and low-power CMOS digital design. Sheng has been awarded seven patents in the areas of RF tuner and DSL modem design. Sheng holds a BA degree in applied mathematics and BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Geoff Ribar
Chief Financial Officer
Geoff Ribar oversees Telegent's financial, legal, and general administration
operations. Ribar brings a wealth of financial expertise to Telegent, with
extensive experience in both private and public companies in the
semiconductor industry. Prior to Telegent, Ribar held the CFO position at
a number of semiconductor companies including SiRF, Matrix Semiconductor and
nVidia, and was also Vice President and Corporate Controller at Advanced
Micro Devices. During his career, Ribar has completed many M&A
transactions, prepared companies for IPO and helped companies successfully
scale during periods of rapid revenue and headcount growth.
Ribar holds a BS and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Diana Jovin
Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Business Development
Diana Jovin serves as Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Business
Development, responsible for leading the company's communications and marketing
programs and directing the company's growth and expansion into new markets.
Jovin brings more than fifteen years of leadership experience to her role with
a proven track record in enabling companies with disruptive technologies to
establish leadership positions in new market segments. Prior to Telegent, Jovin
served as CEO and co-founder of CascadeWorks, which pioneered the services
e-procurement market. She subsequently served as Vice President of Marketing &
Business Development at Elance, which acquired the company in 2002. Prior to
CascadeWorks, she served as Director of Marketing at NetDynamics, which
established and led the application server software market and was acquired by
Sun Microsystems in 1998. Jovin has also consulted with numerous private and
public technology companies on the development of go-to-market strategies,
partner programs, and positioning and messaging platforms. Jovin holds an MBA
from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA from Harvard University.
Don Stark
Vice President, Engineering
Don Stark brings more than fifteen years of executive engineering
experience to Telegent, and provides leadership to the company's global
engineering organization. Prior to Telegent, Stark was the vice president
of engineering at Aeluros, part of NetLogic Microsystems since 2007, where
he led development of 10Gigabit Ethernet transceiver chips and high speed
physical layer IP cores. Prior to Aeluros, Stark was the vice president of
the Memory, Architecture and Technology Division at Rambus, where he was
responsible for the development and design of Rambus' memory interface
products, now included in more than 500 million devices shipped in more
than 100 million systems. Stark has also been a consulting professor in
Stanford University's electrical engineering department and has received 83
US patents.
Stark holds a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a MS and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Ken Wang
Vice President of Worldwide Sales and General Manager, Telegent China
Ken Wang serves as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and General Manager of
Telegent China, responsible for Telegent's global sales strategy and customer
relationships in addition to leading the company's China operations. Prior to
Telegent, Wang served as Director of Business Management for Harmonics Inc.,
responsible for business development, sales, marketing and supply chain
management. Prior to Harmonics, Wang held a variety of business development and
product marketing positions at JDS Uniphase where he received the President
Award for his leadership role in product development. Wang also worked as a
researcher at Bell Laboratories where he invented novel technologies for
semiconductor manufacturing. Wang has authored numerous publications and holds
one patent. Wang graduated from Beijing University in China and holds a PhD in
Chemical Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from
Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, in both Finance and
Operations.
Stephen Zadig
Vice President, Operations
Stephen Zadig oversees global operations which includes all manufacturing
activities, high-volume supply chain management and infrastructure
development to support Telegent's rapid growth. Zadig comes to Telegent with
more than thirty years of experience and a proven track record in
semiconductor manufacturing operations, combined with an extensive
background in growing companies from start-up through IPO. From 1996 through
2001, he was the founding VP of Operations at Marvell Semiconductor, a
leading-edge mixed-signal processing company. Prior to Marvell, Zadig was VP
of Operations at Paradigm Technology, where he led the company through its
IPO. Zadig was also the founding VP of Operations at C-Cube Microsystems, a
company he helped lead from inception to a successful IPO. While at C-Cube
Microsystems, Zadig was a principal founder of the Fabless Semiconductor
Association, where he served as Chairman of the Forecast Committee.