Kurt Busch
Kurt Busch is the chief executive officer of Syntiant Corp. He has extensive experience in product development, having driven the successful launch of new products, ranging from SaaS and semiconductors for telecom and broadcast video to consumer electronics and data center systems. Prior to Syntiant, he was president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors at Lantronix (NASDAQ: LTRX), a global provider of secure data access and management solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) and information technology (IT).
He also served as a senior vice president and general manager of high performance analog business unit at Mindspeed Technologies, acquired by MACOM. Prior responsibilities include technical sales and marketing roles at Analog Devices, Intel, Digital Equipment Corporation and two start-ups. Mr. Busch is an engineering hall of fame inductee of the University of California at Irvine, where he earned Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and biological science. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University.
Dr. Jeremy Holleman
Jeremy Holleman, Ph.D. is the chief scientist of Syntiant Corp. He is an expert on ultra-low power integrated circuits and directs the Integrated Silicon Systems Laboratory at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, where he is an associate professor. Dr. Holleman received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington where he studied micro-power integrated circuits for neural interfaces. Previously, Dr. Holleman was an analog design engineer at National Semiconductor where he designed and implemented a DAC to be used in precision amplifiers. He also served as a software systems engineer for Data I/O Corporation.
Dr. Holleman has served as the Session Chair for the IEEE Midwest and International Symposiums on Circuits and Systems. He is also the co-author of the book Ultra Low-Power Integrated Circuit Design for Wireless Neural Interfaces, in addition to co-authoring articles on ultra-low power and analog deep machine learning published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Express Briefs and IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Most recently, Dr. Holleman directed the “Near-Zero Integrated Analog Classifier” project as a result of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Pieter Vorenkamp
Pieter Vorenkamp is chief operating officer at Syntiant Corp. He brings decades of operations and engineering experience to the company, with a career that includes nearly 20 years of leadership roles at Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO). Most recently, Mr. Vorenkamp was senior vice president and general manager of the IP Group at Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ: CDNS).
While at Broadcom, Mr. Vorenkamp was senior vice president of operations engineering where his responsibilities spanned world-wide manufacturing technology and support of all hardware programs from inception through engineering samples into high-volume production. Prior to his operations role, Mr. Vorenkamp was VP & chief architect-central engineering developing core IP for use throughout Broadcom. Mr. Vorenkamp received the equivalent of a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente in The Netherlands. He is the named inventor of more than 125-issued U.S and European patents.
Dr. Stephen Bailey
Stephen Bailey, Ph.D. is chief technology officer at Syntiant Corp. His influence and expertise are global in scope, having served as Broadcom Switch’s chief technologist for over a decade. Dr. Bailey’s achievements include creating Broadcom’s most advanced switching platform, driving 6x business growth and creating a China solution team to transform component- to platform-level engagement.
Dr. Bailey was CTO of Sandburst, acquired by Broadcom in 2006, Chief Scientist at OverX and Genroco, and hardware and software engineer working on storage, network and computing at Digital Equipment Corporation. He earned his BS EE from Carnegie Mellon, and Ph.D. CS from the University of Chicago.
Paul Henderson
Paul Henderson is the chief financial officer of Syntiant Corp. He has an extensive background in accounting, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, technical accounting and SEC reporting, including stints in ‘Big 4’ public accounting as well as public and private technology companies.
Prior to joining Syntiant, Paul worked with several early-stage technology companies in a chief financial officer capacity. His previous experience also includes various roles in finance and accounting with Conexant Systems (acquired by Synaptics), Hyperion Solutions (acquired by Oracle) and Marvell Technology Group. Paul began his professional career with Arthur Andersen in Silicon Valley and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Europe, working with both public and private technology companies. Paul earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and holds an active CPA license in the State of California.
Mallik P. Moturi
Mallik P. Moturi is chief business officer at Syntiant Corp. He has more than two decades of semiconductor industry experience, working with diverse applications, such as neural network processors, digital signal processing, multimedia, networking, systems on chips and FPGAs.
Mr. Moturi has held senior roles, such as vice president, general manager and managing director at various companies, including Qualcomm, Xilinx, Conexant, Hughes/DirecTV and Bell Labs. Mr. Moturi has also been instrumental in the development and introduction of many industry innovations, including the first multi-core DSPs, the first HDTV chipset, and the first commercial implementation of low-density parity-check codes for satellite broadcasting, neural network processing in mobile devices, and high-performance FPGA-based computing solutions.
Mr. Moturi received a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Syracuse University, and pursued his Ph.D. in electrical and communications engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Jonathan Su
Jonathan Su is the VP of Software at Syntiant. Prior to Syntiant, Jonathan was the co-founder and CEO of Pilot AI, the world leader in computer vision solutions targetted towards compute constrained computational platforms. He received his PhD from Stanford CS, where he focused on computational math and high performance computing. Prior to Pilot AI, Jonathan founded Phisix Fashion Labs, which specialized in high fidelity clothing simulation, which was acquired by eBay in 2014. Prior to Phisix, he also held positions at Intel Labs and Microsoft Research Asia.
Robert Saman
Robert Saman is vice president and general counsel of Syntiant Corp. He brings to the company over 25 years of legal, corporate and international experience at top-tier global law firms and public, pre-IPO and private technology companies. Mr. Saman has extensive experience in corporate and board governance; business development and international expansion; compliance and risk management; intellectual property; public/private M&A; securities laws; and equity and debt venture financings.
Prior to joining Syntiant, Mr. Saman served as general counsel and head of human resources at Levyx Inc. Previously, he served as the chief legal officer and secretary at sTec. Prior to sTec, he held senior leadership roles within the legal departments of Gateway computers and Eclipsys Corporation.
Mr. Saman began his legal career at a top Silicon Valley law firm (Cooley). Prior to law school, he had a complementary seven-year business career that included consultancy/auditing at Ernst & Young. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, and is an inactive Certified Public Accountant.