Arthur Reidel
Chief Executive Officer
For 25 years Art Reidel has helped build and scale profitable businesses in the electronic design automation, pharmaceutical software, semiconductor, and communications industries. He was co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Pharsight Corporation (now part of Tripos International), the leader in modeling and simulation for pharmaceutical development, and he led its IPO in August 2000. Art has held executive positions with technology-based companies Sunrise Test Systems (acquired by Viewlogic Systems), where he served as its president and chief executive officer; Weitek; Interactive Training Systems, and Schlumberger Computer-Aided Systems. In addition to his management roles, Art is well connected to the investment community. Most recently, Art was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he provided management assistance to portfolio companies and was responsible for several new investments. He earlier served as a general partner at ABS Venture Limited Partnerships, where he invested in and was a director of numerous technology-based companies. Art has a BS in Mathematics from MIT.
Scott Gibson
Chief Financial Officer
Scott Gibson brings over 22 years of extensive experience in leading Finance, IT, Human Resources, and Administration for both private and public technology companies including KLA-Tencor (semiconductor capital equipment), StrataCom (networking equipment), PLX Technology (semiconductor), SOMA Networks (wireless equipment), and most recently, Luxim Corporation (plasma lighting). Scott has spent the past 18 years as a chief financial officer, played a key role in strategic management of high growth companies and successfully managed Initial Public Offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Scott received his MBA from the University of Michigan and BS in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University.
Bob Koupal
Vice President, Engineering
For over 24 years, Bob Koupal has been successfully building teams that develop high frequency radio system ICs, and driving them to high volume production. Prior to joining Scintera, Mr. Koupal was the Sr. Director of Engineering for 5 years at Micro Linear (acquired by Sirenza, RFMD) managing the development of highly integrated radio transceivers for consumer applications such as cordless phones, PHS phones, ISDB tuners and Wireless Audio, as well as developing components for use in WCDMA and GSM Wireless Base Station transmitter applications. Previously he held Director of Engineering positions at startup companies Radia Communications and Signia Technologies, developing WLAN and Bluetooth transceivers and chipsets. Prior to that, Mr. Koupal held development engineering positions at Agilent, HP and Avantek. He has several publications in major international journals and conferences, and has applied for two patents in the area of PA integration. Mr. Koupal has a MSEE degree from Santa Clara University and a BSEE from the University of California at Davis.
Rajeev Krishnamoorthy
Chief Technology Officer
Rajeev Krishnamoorthy is an entrepreneur and executive whose focus has been on innovating and commercializing new technologies in emerging and rapidly growing markets. Most recently he was founder and CEO of TZero Technologies (acquired by NDS Surgical Imaging), a fabless semiconductor company providing high-performance Ultra Wideband chipsets and digital video solutions. Prior to founding TZero, Rajeev was VP, Technology at Iospan Wireless (now part of Intel) responsible for developing the first commercial MIMO fixed-wireless systems. He began his career at Bell Labs conducting research in communications and data networking, and in the wireless LAN division of AT&T/Lucent in the Netherlands where he played a key role in the development of the earliest 802.11 and 11(b) (WiFi) products which enabled the first widely deployed wireless LAN networks. Rajeev is closely involved with the venture and academic worlds - he has been an EIR and consultant at Globespan Capital Partners and Tallwood Venture Capital, an advisor and board member of several venture-backed startups, and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Rajeev earned his PhD from Cornell and his BS from Caltech.
Roger Merel
Vice President, Product Strategy
Roger Merel has a successful background in identifying and defining new products for emerging system and network architectures across multiple markets. Most recently, he was vice president of product strategy for Luxtera where he was responsible for product definition and new business development. Previously, Roger was the director of network strategy for JDS Uniphase. In this capacity, he was involved in new product initiatives related to dispersion compensation, optical amplifiers, intelligent modules, ROADMs, DGEs, FTTH, Metro Networking, 40G components, tunable lasers, transceivers and signal processing. Earlier, he was director of engineering and principal systems architect for GTE Airfone developing the first digital mobile wireless system in North America for which he received the Leslie H. Warner Award of Technical Achievement. Roger has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois.
Kris Rausch
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Kris Rausch has a proven track record in developing new customer sales and bringing semiconductor products to market. He brings nearly 15 years of semiconductor sales, applications, and engineering experience to Scintera. He was most recently General Manager of Sales and Business Development at RFMD, a leading supplier of RF components to the handset industry, where he led worldwide sales, business development, and applications engineering efforts for all of RFMD’s cellular handset products. Prior to this, Kris held varied positions within RFMD in product-line general management, Greater China sales management, and applications engineering. Kris has a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Virginia, and holds one US Patent.
Abhijit G. Shanbhag
Founder and CTO Emeritus
Dr. Shanbhag has over 10 years experience in advanced communication systems architectures and algorithms. Previously, Dr. Shanbhag held leadership positions at QUALCOMM and Ericsson in the design of wireless base stations and the development of IS-2000 Physical Layer Standards. Previous to co-founding Scintera Networks, Dr. Shanbhag was a Group Leader at Morphics Technology (acquired by Infineon), working on reconfigurable signal processing architectures. He has several publications in major international journals and conference proceedings and holds several patents in communications systems and signal processing. Dr. Shanbhag serves on the Advisory Board of the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. Dr. Shanbhag holds a PhD from University of Southern California and a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, all in Electrical Engineering.