Arete Tech Conference 2022 The Future Series

Sampath is the executive vice president and CEO of Verizon Business, a global leader in 5G technology serving 97% of Fortune 500 companies. Sampath and his team help businesses, governments and communities reimagine their employee, supply chain and end-customer experiences. With $31B+ in annual revenue (2021), Verizon Business is leading the way into a new 5G-based era of technology-led innovation for its customers.

Sampath brings to his position more than two decades of experience in digital transformation and critical network infrastructure on behalf of business customers, plus extensive knowledge of products and their role in powering enterprise growth and global security. His experience ensures that Verizon Business is the overwhelmingly preferred partner of choice for customers' digital transformation journeys.

Sampath previously served as Chief Revenue Officer for Verizon Business where he was responsible for accelerating growth and reimagining the future of the enterprise for Verizon and its global customers. Prior to that he was President of Global Enterprise at Verizon, where he led a global team focused on delivering solutions to enable enterprise customers to securely connect to the global economy and intelligently manage business operations. Earlier in his Verizon tenure, he served as Chief Product Officer, responsible for the complete product portfolio and implementing major strategic initiatives. These included two of the company's largest programs, Network Transformation and One Fiber, which served as the foundation for Verizon's progress in wireless network densification and 5G.

Before Verizon, Sampath spent almost a decade at the Boston Consulting Group, where he was a Partner and Global Sector Leader for the Telecom practice area focused on driving large scale, enterprise-wide transformations.

Corporate and charitable leadership: Sampath is passionately committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and believes in leading with kindness and integrity. He is the executive sponsor of United of Verizon, one of the company's employee resource groups, designed to bring together employees of all backgrounds to help build a diverse company culture and best serve customers.

Sampath serves as a member of the Fast Company Impact Council and is a member of the Board of Advisors for Tech United New Jersey. He also serves on the board of directors of Canadian Tire, Canada's largest chains of automotive, hardware, sports, leisure, and houseware products, with over 50,000 employees.

Personal and educational background: Sampath holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calcutta, St. Xavier's College, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Boston University. He is also a Chartered Accountant. Sampath lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children, and has a keen interest in cricket.

Dr. Siva Sivaram is President, Technology and Strategy, at Western Digital where he is responsible for the development of the corporate strategy and the technologies that fuel the company's growth.

Sivaram has more than 35 years of experience in semiconductor technologies and manufacturing. He has held executive positions at Intel, Matrix Semiconductor and at SanDisk after its acquisition of Matrix. Additionally, he was the founder and CEO of Twin Creeks Technologies, a solar panel and equipment company.

Sivaram has authored numerous technical papers and a textbook on chemical vapor deposition and holds several patents in semiconductor and solar technologies.

Sivaram serves on the board of directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and the US-India Business Council. He has been on the board of directors and advised several start-up firms and was entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosslink Capital and XSeed Capital.

He also serves on the board of Akshaya Patra, the world's largest NGO dedicated to feeding school children.

Sivaram received his Doctorate and Master's degrees in Materials Science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has been nominated to its Board of Trustees. Additionally, he is a Distinguished Alumnus of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, India, where he received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Ian Buck is vice president of Hyperscale and HPC Computing at NVIDIA.

He is responsible for the company's worldwide datacenter business, including server GPUs and the enabling NVIDIA computing software for AI and HPC used by millions of developers, researchers and scientists.

Buck joined NVIDIA in 2004 after completing his PhD in computer science from Stanford University, where he was development lead for Brook, the forerunner to generalized computing on GPUs. He is also the creator of CUDA, which has become the world’s leading platform for accelerated parallel computing.

Buck has testified before the U.S. Congress on artificial intelligence and has advised the White House on the topic.

Buck also received a BSE degree in computer science from Princeton University.

Brian C. White brings more than 30 years of experience in finance, corporate strategy, business development, and business line management to Ambarella. Prior to joining Ambarella, he was CFO at Maxim Integrated Products and Integrated Device Technology (IDT). White has also held a variety of financial and operational management positions at companies including Nvidia, Hitachi GST, and IBM. He began his career in public accounting with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. White earned a BA in Business Administration from Seattle University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He maintains credentials as both a CPA and a CFP.

Rodrigo Liang is the CEO and co-founder of SambaNova Systems. He is a business and engineering leader who recognized the fundamental shift that AI will have on the world. He and his co-founders designed a new full-stack hardware and software platform optimized for AI workflows and set the company on a mission to enable the future of AI today.

Prior to founding SambaNova, Rodrigo was the senior vice president responsible for SPARC Processor and ASIC development at Oracle. During his tenure at Oracle, he led one of the industry's largest engineering organizations in developing high-performance microprocessors and releasing 12 major SPARC processors and ASICs for enterprise servers. SPARC processor performance achieved numerous world records, and it continues to be a performance leader for enterprise applications.

Before joining Oracle via the Sun acquisition in 2010, Rodrigo was vice-president at Sun Microsystems where he worked on the development of the world's first multi-core processors, code-named Niagara.

Rodrigo holds master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Andrew is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds a BA and an MBA from Stanford.

Andrew is an experienced, senior commercial and technology leader. Over the past 25 years he has worked in a wide range of high-tech industries and has spent the last 10 years focused on the automotive sector. This has included working on multiple innovation projects from Linux based IVI platforms to connected car services.

Prior to joining Trustonic Andrew held senior leadership positions with Harman Connected Services, Symphony, Teleca and Motorola. Andrew has also held various positions on industry forums as well as being a regular industry speaker and commentator.

Mark Papermaster is Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Technology and Engineering responsible for Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) technical direction and product development including microprocessor design, I/O and memory, system-on-chip (SOC) methodology, and advanced research. He led the re-design of engineering processes at AMD and the development of the award-winning "Zen" high-performance x86 CPU family, high-performance GPUs and the company's modular design approach, Infinity Architecture. He also oversees Information Technology (IT) that delivers AMD's compute infrastructure and services.

His more than 35 years of engineering experience includes significant leadership roles managing the development of a wide range of products, from microprocessors to mobile devices and high-performance servers. Before joining AMD in October 2011 as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Papermaster was the leader of Cisco's Silicon Engineering Group, Apple Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering for iPod and iPhone and held multiple IBM roles in technology and server development.

Papermaster received his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and master's degree from the University of Vermont, both in Electrical Engineering. He is a long-term member of the University of Texas Cockrell School of Engineering Advisory Board, Olin College Presidents Council, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, CTO Forum Advisory Board, IEEE Industry Advisory Board, and most recently the Global Semiconductor Alliance Board of Directors.

Nakul Duggal serves as Sr. Vice President and General Manager, Automotive for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. where he is responsible for Qualcomm's automotive strategy, automotive semiconductor and software portfolio, ecosystem development, program management and customer relationships. His responsibilities include focused development expansion into the digital cockpit, smart transportation and the connected car as well as autonomous driving, oversight over product roadmap and its execution, customer focused business development, and applications engineering. Nakul has worked in Qualcomm Automotive since 2011 and has been instrumental in building the company's automotive portfolio and global footprint.

He joined Qualcomm in 1995 as an engineer focused on the company's commercial base station and infrastructure business. Over the course of his career, he has held engineering and management positions in the development and commercialization of CDMA, UMTS and LTE technologies. He led the Open Market Handset (OMH) initiative, an industry-wide effort to expand CDMA device distribution into the open market.

Duggal holds a BSEE degree from M.S. University, India and a master's degree in business administration from the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management.

Fermi Wang, Ph.D. has served as our Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer since he co-founded Ambarella in January 2004. Prior to co-founding Ambarella, Dr. Wang was Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Afara Websystems, a developer of throughput-oriented microprocessor technology for servers, from November 2000 to July 2002, when Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc.. Before founding Afara, Dr. Wang served in various positions at C-Cube Microsystems, Inc., a digital video company, from August 1991 to August 2000, and last served as Vice President and General Manager from 1997 to 2000.

Dr. Wang holds several digitial video-related patents, including one of MPEGLA’s core MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/AVC patents. In 2016, he received the National Taiwan University Distinguished Alumni Award and is the recipient of the 2018 Thomas Egleston Medal from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University for his distinguished engineering achievements. Dr. Wang earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and an M.S. degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University. Dr. Wang is a member of the Board of Trustees at Columbia University.

Louis draws on more than 25 years of semiconductor industry strategic finance experience bridging both the industry as well as Wall Street. Prior to Ambarella, Louis was responsible for Corporate Development & Strategy at Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola) until its acquisition by NXP. At Freescale, Louis developed and executed 13 acquisitions and strategic investments. Louis previously served for a decade as a Senior Semiconductor Industry Analyst at Morgan Stanley where he cumulatively covered more than 50 publicly traded semiconductor companies and vetted several hundred private semiconductor companies yielding 17 initial public offerings (including industry leaders such as Broadcom, Cavium, and Silicon Laboratories) and other capital market transactions valued at more than $50 billion. He is widely recognized for his industry knowledge and relationships and was frequently quoted in trade magazines and news services. A Reuters study ranked him as the fifth most read analyst on Wall Street in 2001 .

Early in his career Louis was involved in the launch of several start-up semiconductor manufacturing companies in Taiwan. During this time his responsibilities included marketing, operations, and sales activity.

Louis holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Arizona and a Masters of International Management degree, with a focus on international finance, from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Jeffrey B. Shealy is our Founder & CEO. He has over 20 years' experience in RF/Wireless focused on building businesses around solid-state materials and electron device innovation. He spent 13 years at RF Micro Devices, Inc. (now Qorvo) as Vice-President and General Manager. Mr. Shealy is a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow and spent 7 years with Hughes Electronics at Hughes Research Labs (now HRL Labs) and Hughes Network Systems (now Hughes). He previously founded RF Nitro, Inc., a Gallium Nitride RF power high-tech start-up (acquired by RFMD in 2001). Mr. Shealy holds an MBA degree from Wake Forest University, Master of Science and Doctorate degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NC State University.

Raghib Hussain is President of Products and Technologies at Marvell where he oversees the company's businesses and technologies by defining overall strategy, aligning roadmaps, monitoring and prioritizing product development, leading innovation and driving growth. Raghib also has oversight of the Office of the CTO – the driving force behind Marvell's long-term technology vision and strategy transformation efforts.

Previously he served as Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of the company's Networking and Processors Group.

Prior to joining Marvell in 2018, Raghib served as the Chief Operating Officer of Cavium, a company he co-founded. Prior to Cavium, Raghib held engineering roles at both Cisco and Cadence and helped found VPNet, an enterprise security company. Raghib earned a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from NED University in Karachi, Pakistan, and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University. He holds more than 40 patents in the fields of networking and security.

Raghib was appointed to the Board of Directors for at Cirrus Logic, Inc. in 2021.