Board of Directors

Mr. Raza has served as founder, chairman, CEO, COO, and board member for companies such as RMI, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), NexGen, Matrix Semiconductors, AMI Semiconductor, Mellanox Technologies, Inc., eASIC, and TRG. As President and Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Mr. Raza was responsible for laying the foundation of AMD's processor roadmap and was instrumental in bringing the AMD-K6 and Athlon family of processors to market.

Mr. Gupta is Founder & Managing Partner of TeleSoft Partners, a venture capital firm focused on high-tech start-ups. For over 20 years Mr. Gupta has worked in technology venture capital, consulting and design engineering positions. At TeleSoft, Mr. Gupta manages capital commitments of $625+ million, and over the last decade has overseen the investment in and building of 61+ private companies, resulting in 32+ acquisitions with a cash acquisition price or market value equivalent of $18 billion. In addition to serving on Validity's board, Mr. Gupta serves on the board of Calient, Education.com, Knowledge Adventure, LiteScape, LogLogic, and Nexant.

Mr. Stark is co-founder and general partner of Crosslink Capital, an investment firm involved in early, seed-stage to private/public market venture capital financing. Mr. Stark oversees all of Crosslink's public and private investment activities and leads the firm's core technology/semiconductor venture initiative. Mr. Stark has led Crosslink's venture capital investments in companies such as: CBT Systems, Dick's Sporting Goods, Magma Designs, On-Display, Solopower and Tivo. In addition to serving on Validity's board, Mr. Stark serves on the boards of Blue Arc, Nanonexus, Revera, Silicon Blue, and Virage Logic.

Mr. Chandran is a principal at Panorama Capital and focuses on technology investments. In addition to serving on Validity’s board, he also serves on the boards of Neoconix, CHiL Semiconductor and Tagsys RFID and on the Advisory Board of Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Santa Clara University. Previously, Mr.Chandran was involved with the firm’s investments in Reflectivity (acquired by TI), Valere Power (acquired by Eltek) and Portalplayer (acquired by Nvidia). Prior to his venture capital career, from 1995 to 2000, Mr. Chandran held various engineering, business development, and management roles at Applied Materials, Inc.

Mr. Alvarez is President and Chief Executive Officer of Leadis, a leading analog and mixed-signal semiconductor company and serves on its board of directors. Prior to Leadis, Mr. Alvarez held the positions of Senior Vice President, Memory and Imaging Products Division and Senior Vice President, Research and Development at Cypress Semiconductor. During his tenure at Cypress, Mr. Alvarez led the successful growth of its SRAM business to leading supplier status, expanded its imaging business via acquisitions, and effectively incubated its specialty DRAM initiative. Mr. Alvarez is also a board member of ChipMOS, where he has served since 2005.

Mr. Baxter has over 30 years of global semiconductor experience in Consumer, Telecom, and Automotive markets. Prior to joining Validity, he was at SiRF Technology as Senior Vice President. Prior to joining SiRF, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Centrality Communications, where he led the company through the acquisition by SiRF in August 2007.

Mr. Baxter has also served as Chief Executive Officer at Xanoptix / Xan3D Technologies, as Senior Vice President and Member of Office of the President at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, and as Vice President and General Manager of several Divisions in Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector (now known as Freescale) based in Europe, the United States and Asia during a 16-year career.

Prior to joining Validity, Mr. Kirby served as General Manager and Senior Vice President at Synaptics, Inc., the world's leading supplier of innovative human interface devices for the PC, PC Peripheral, and Music Player markets. At Synaptics, Mr. Kirby led revenue and profit growth initiatives, resulting in market share leadership and a successful IPO. Mr. Kirby had served over 28 years at National Semiconductor Corporation in a variety of senior positions, including: Managing Director, Co-General Manager of the LAN Division, Vice President of the Technology and Strategic Planning Group, and Vice President of the Design Technology and Support Groups.