People: Ikanos Communications Inc (IKAN.W)

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24 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Diosdado Banatao

 65 2012 Executive Chairman of the Board

Omid Tahernia

 52 2012 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Dennis Bencala

 57 2010 Chief Financial Officer, Vice President - Finance

Debajyoti Pal

 54 2010 Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President

Stu Krometis

 2013 Vice President - Sales

Kourosh Amiri

 2013 Vice President - Marketing

James Murphy

 58 2010 Vice President - Worldwide Human Resources

Danial Faizullabhoy

 50 2001 Independent Director

Frederick Lax

 59 2008 Independent Director

George Pavlov

 2009 Independent Director

James Smaha

 76 2010 Independent Director
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Biographies

Name Description

Diosdado Banatao

 Mr. Diosdado P. Banatao is Executive Chairman of the Board of Ikanos Communication Inc. He resigned as Interim Chief Executive Officer, President and Principal Executive Officer, effective June 11, 2012. He has served as the company's Chairman of the company's board of directors since August 2009 and has served as the company's Interim President and Chief Executive Officer since June 2011 and from April 2010 to July 2010. Mr. Banatao is the founder and has been Managing Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital (Tallwood) since July 2000. From April 2008 to June 2009, Mr. Banatao served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. (SiRF), a publicly-traded company that was acquired by CSR plc in June 2009 (SiRF). From October 2006 to August 2007, Mr. Banatao served as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Inphi Corporation. Prior to forming Tallwood, Mr. Banatao was a venture partner at the Mayfield Fund, a venture capital firm, from January 1998 to May 2000. Mr. Banatao co-founded three technology startups: S3 Graphics Ltd in 1989, Chips & Technologies, Inc. in 1985 and Mostron, Inc. in 1984. He received B.S.E.E. from the Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Omid Tahernia

 Mr. Omid Tahernia is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Ikanos Communications Inc. He has over 28 years of experience in global high technology organizations and businesses providing systems and semiconductor solutions – both in the U.S. and abroad. Most recently, Tahernia served as President and CEO of Tilera Corporation, a multicore privately held company. During his tenure at Tilera, he led the company through its market emergence and drove the company business and product strategy while growing revenue in core market segments of Networking, Security, Multimedia, and Cloud Computing. Prior to Tilera, Mr. Tahernia spent three years at Xilinx, where he was Vice President and General Manager of a newly created DSP Division and later served as Vice President and General Manager of the Processing Solutions Group consisting of DSP, Embedded Processing, and IP Divisions. Prior to Xilinx, Tahernia spent 21 years at Motorola in both the equipment and semiconductor segments. He held a variety of positions at Motorola including running a nearly $1 billion wireless chipset business in the company’s Semiconductor unit, as Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless and Mobile Systems Division. Mr. Tahernia holds more than ten U.S. patents, a B.S.E.E. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, and an M.S.E.E. from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dennis Bencala

 Mr. Dennis Bencala is Chief Financial Officer, Vice President - Finance of Ikanos Communications Inc. Prior to joining Ikanos Mr. Bencala was CFO of the Renewable Energy Test Center from October 2009 to June 2010. Mr. Bencala held successive positions at SiRF beginning with Corporate Controller in January 2000 and becoming Senior Director, Investor Relations and Business Development, in August 2007. He became acting CFO at SiRF in August 2008 and CFO from Sept 2008 until October 2009. Prior to joining SiRF Mr. Bencala served as Corporate Controller at ScanVision, Inc., a developer of image sensing semiconductor products from June 1995 to December 1999. Mr. Bencala holds a B.S. in Finance from San Diego State University.

Debajyoti Pal

 Dr. Debajyoti Pal, Ph.D., is Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President of Ikanos Communications Inc. He has served as Chief Technology Officer since August 2009. From April 2004 until August 2009. Dr. Pal was Chief Technology Officer and Executive in Residence at Tallwood Venture Capital. Prior to joining Tallwood. Dr. Pal founded Telicos Corporation in May 2002 and was President until April 2004. Dr. Pal was Vice President of Technology & Product Development of Virata/Globespan Virata from August 2000 until April 2002. In May 1998 he founded Excess Bandwidth Corporation and was Vice President of Technology and Vice President engineering until August 2000 when it was acquired by Virata. Dr. Pal received a Bachelors degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, a M.S.E.E. degree from Washington State University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Pal is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Stu Krometis

 Mr. Stu Krometis is Vice President - Sales of Ikanos Communications, Inc. With more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Krometis joins Ikanos from Cavium, where he led all sales activities in the Asia-Pacific region as vice president of APAC sales. Krometis has a track record in selling integrated SOCs for networking and consumer applications. He has managed global accounts and led sales teams in North America, Europe, and Asia. Under his management of Cavium's Global Strategic Accounts, he closed several design wins that grew the accounts' revenue by more than 50 percent over the last three years. In addition, he extended Cavium's distributor and ODM strategies in Taiwan, facilitating the development of better turnkey hardware and software solutions to reduce time-to-market for OEMs. Krometis was at Cavium for eight years and was senior director of global accounts and EMEA sales prior to his most recent position as vice president of APAC sales. Before joining Cavium, Krometis served in various sales roles at AMCC, including Cisco global account management. Krometis has a BBA from Roanoke College.

Kourosh Amiri

 Mr. Kourosh Amiri has been appointed as Vice President - Marketing of Ikanos Communications, Inc. Amiri joins Ikanos from Cavium, where he led marketing and business development for its emerging media processor group, and drove the strategy for turning Cavium into a supplier of wireless display media processors in multiple market segments, including smartphones and PC accessories. Prior to joining Cavium, Amiri held senior marketing and business development roles at Freescale and several venture-backed semiconductor start-ups, addressing a wide range of networking and media processing applications. Amiri has an MSEE from Stanford University and a BSEE from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

James Murphy

 Mr. James Murphy is Vice President - Worldwide Human Resources of Ikanos Communications Inc. Prior to joining Ikanos he served as Vice President, Human Resources for North America and Asia Pacific for CSR plc from August 2009 until May 2010. From March 2006 until August 2009, Mr. Murphy was Vice President, Human Resources for SiRF. Prior to joining SiRF, Mr. Murphy was Senior Human Resources Director for North America at LSI Logic from May 1994 through March 2006. Mr. Murphy holds a B.A. from Lawrence University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Danial Faizullabhoy

 Mr. Danial Faizullabhoy is Independent Director of Ikanos Communications Inc., since July 2001. He has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of BroadLogic Network Technologies, Inc., a video-processing mixed signal semiconductor design and supply company, since July 2006. From July 1998 to July 2006, Mr. Faizullabhoy held various positions at Walden International Investment Group, a venture capital firm, including Venture Consultant, Venture Partner and Managing Director. From 1986 to 1998, Mr. Faizullabhoy held various positions at Adaptec Inc., including Applications Engineer, Product/Marketing Manager, and Vice President and General Manager of its Target and Optical peripheral solutions group. Prior to that, Mr. Faizullabhoy was a design engineer at Production Automation. He holds B.S.E.E. from Norwich University and a M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. He has been board member of BroadLogic Network Technologies, Inc., a private company, from December 1998 to present and currently a member of the Board of Trustees of Norwich University, a non-profit organization. Mr. Faizullabhoy also served on the board of directors of the following private companies: Matisse Networks, Inc. from May 2001 to April 2007, Sierra Atlantic, Inc. from July 1999 to April 2007 and Airtight Networks, Inc. from March 2004 to April 2007.

Frederick Lax

 Mr. Frederick M. Lax is Independent Director of Ikanos Communications Inc., since January 26, 2008. Since 2006, Mr. Lax has worked as an independent communications executive advisor. From February 2001 to January 2006, Mr. Lax was employed by Tekelec Inc., a developer of next-generation switching and signaling telecommunications and network performance management technology, serving initially as its Chief Operating Officer and subsequently as President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his tenure at Tekelec, Mr. Lax held a number of senior executive positions within Bell Laboratories which was part of AT&T, Inc. from June 1974 to September 1996 and Lucent Technologies from September 1996 to January 2001. He holds B.S.E.E. from the University of Notre Dame and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is board member of Tekelec Inc., a public company, from February 2003 to January 2006. Chairman of the Board at Argent Networks, Ltd., a private company, from April 2006 to February 2008.

George Pavlov

 Mr. George Pavlov is Independent Director of Ikanos Communication Inc., since August 24, 2009. Since 2002, Mr. Pavlov has been General Partner of Tallwood. Prior to joining Tallwood, Mr. Pavlov was Chief Executive Officer of eTime Capital from April 2000 to July 2001 and a General Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Mayfield, a venture capital fund, from April 1996 to April 2000. Before the Mayfield fund, Mr. Pavlov was the Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of Blum Capital Partners from May 1991 to April 1996 and he held several financial and sales management positions at NeXT Computer, Inc. from April 1987 to May 1991. He has received B.S. in Accounting from Boston College. He is board member of Alphion Corporation from May 2008 to the present, Amulaire Thermal Technology Inc. from July 2005 to the present, Chairman of the Board of Astute Networks Inc. from November 2005 to the present, Audience Inc. from December 2003 to the present, Calypto Design Systems Inc. from December 2002 to the present, Chairman of the Board of Crossing Automation Inc. from September 2005 to the present, Quintic Corporation from September 2006 to the present, and SVTC Technologies from March 2007 to the present, each a private company.

James Smaha

 Mr. James M. Smaha is Independent Director of Ikanos Communications Inc., since April 2010. Mr. Smaha’s experience includes over 30 years in the semiconductor industry, including service as President and Executive Vice President of the Semiconductor Group of National Semiconductor Corporation as well as other senior roles at National Semiconductor Corporation from March 1974 to March 1989. Upon retiring in 1989, Mr. Smaha served as an independent consultant, including with S3 Graphics Ltd. and interWAVE Communications International Ltd., a communications company. He has received B.A. in mathematics from the University of Maine. He was a board member of SiRF from October 2000 to June 2009.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Diosdado Banatao

 53,664

Omid Tahernia

 --

Dennis Bencala

 278,194

Debajyoti Pal

 289,851

Stu Krometis

 --

Kourosh Amiri

 --

James Murphy

 237,219

Danial Faizullabhoy

 --

Frederick Lax

 --

George Pavlov

 --

James Smaha

 --
As Of 31 Dec 2011

Insider Trading

Name Shares Traded Price

PAVLOV GEORGE

 9,000 $0.00

NORBY ROCKFORD DOUGLAS

 9,000 $0.00

SMAHA JAMES M

 9,000 $0.00

FAIZULLABHOY DANIAL

 9,000 $0.00

LAX FREDERICK M

 9,000 $0.00

BANATAO DIOSDADO P

 9,000 $0.00

TAHERNIA OMID

 10,000 $0.91

TAHERNIA OMID

 10,000 $0.91
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