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open quote Telegent Systems represents a breakthrough opportunity for handset makers, carriers, and broadcasters.open quote

—Reed Hundt, Former chairman of the FCC and a member of Telegent Systems’ board of directors

Management Team

Weijie Yun
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
Weijie Yun co-founded Telegent in 2004 and is responsible for setting the company's strategic vision. Weijie is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of bringing products from conceptual stage to market. Prior to Telegent, Weijie 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.

Weijie received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley.

Samuel Sheng
Chief Technical Officer, Co-Founder
Samuel Sheng co-founded Telegent Systems in 2004. A world-renowned expert in CMOS RF and DSP development, Sam 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, Sam 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, Sam co-led the ADSL front-end (AFE) development effort at Datapath Systems, Inc.

Sam 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. He has been awarded seven patents in the areas of RF tuner and DSL modem design. Sam received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering, and his BA degree in applied mathematics, all from the University of California, Berkeley.

Geoff Ribar
Chief Financial Officer
Geoff Ribar oversees Telegent's financial, legal, and general administration operations. Geoff brings a wealth of financial expertise to Telegent, with extensive experience in both private and public companies in the semiconductor industry. Prior to Telegent, Geoff 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, Geoff has completed many M&A transactions, prepared companies for IPO and helped companies successfully scale during periods of rapid revenue and headcount growth.

Geoff holds a BS and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Diana Jovin
Vice President, Corporate Marketing
Diana Jovin is responsible for Telegent's communication strategy, campaigns and marketing programs. With more than fifteen years of marketing experience, Diana brings to Telegent a record of success in enabling companies with disruptive technologies to establish leadership positions in new market segments. Prior to Telegent, Diana was the 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, Diana was the Director of Marketing at NetDynamics, which established and led the application server software market and was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998. Diana has also consulted to numerous private and public technology companies on the development of go-to-market strategies, partner programs, and positioning and messaging platforms.

Diana 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
General Manager, Telegent China
Ken Wang manages Telegent China's operations. Prior to Telegent, Ken was the Director of Business Management for Harmonics Inc., responsible for business development, sales, marketing and supply chain management. Prior to Harmonics, Ken worked for JDS Uniphase in business development, and product marketing, where he received the President Award for his leadership role in product development. He also worked as a researcher at Bell Laboratories where he invented novel technologies for semiconductor manufacturing process. He has authored numerous publications and holds one patent.

Ken Wang holds a PhD in Chemical Physics from University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, in both finance and operations. He graduated from Beijing University in China.

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. Steve 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, Steve was VP of Operations at Paradigm Technology, where he led the company through its IPO. Steve 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, Steve was a principal founder of the Fabless Semiconductor Association, where he served as Chairman of the Forecast Committee.