Silicon Image

Since joining Silicon Image in 1999, he has served in a number of capacities, most recently as president of the storage division, and earlier as chief operating officer and executive vice president of marketing and business development. Tirado hails from Sun Microsystems, where he served as vice president of marketing for the Thin Client Products Group, with responsibility for driving the marketing and sales development efforts required to establish Sun's thin client product family and associated server software in the marketplace. During his 13-year tenure at Sun, Tirado held senior positions in both sales and marketing, including director of product marketing for Volume Desktops, general manager of Sun Mexico, regional manager of sales for Latin America and product line manager for SPARCstation Desktop Products. Tirado received a master's degree in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley, a masters of social work degree in community organization management and planning from Boston University and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Lopez is responsible for overseeing the company's legal affairs, including corporate governance and compliance, securities laws and intellectual property matters, strategic partnerships, litigation as well as licensing and mergers and acquisitions activity. Lopez joins Silicon Image from the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, where he advised public and private emerging growth, medical device and technology companies in a wide variety of substantive areas, with an emphasis on board and corporate governance matters, securities regulatory and disclosure matters, financings and strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, purchases and sales of assets, licensing, joint ventures and distribution arrangements. Prior to rejoining Morrison & Foerster in 2005, Lopez was general counsel and senior vice president, human resources at Terayon Communication Systems, a publicly-held manufacturer of broadband access equipment. During his tenure at Terayon, Lopez also served as acting chief financial officer with additional responsibility for finance, corporate marketing, investor relations and the IT organization. Lopez also held senior management and general counsel positions at ReSound Corporation and Nellcor Puritan Bennett, Inc., two publicly-held, medical device companies. Previously, Lopez was with the law firms Morrison & Foerster and McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen. Lopez earned his B.A. in Economics from Columbia University and a J.D. from the Harvard Law School.

Harold Covert Chief Financial Officer Covert brings to Silicon Image more than 30 years of financial management experience at technology and telecommunications companies. From 2005 to 2007, Covert served as CFO for Openwave Systems Inc. and as a board member and chairman of their audit committee from 2003 to 2005. Covert has previously served as the CFO of Adobe Systems Inc., Silicon Graphics, Extreme Networks Inc. and Fortinet Inc. Earlier in his career, he held financial management positions with industry-leading companies including Northern Telecom Inc., ISC Systems Corp. and Brush Wellman Inc. Covert received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Lake Erie College and an MBA from Cleveland State University. Covert is a Certified Public Accountant and has served in the United States Army.

Before his promotion to CTO in August 2003, Northcutt oversaw the company's Systems Architecture Group. Prior to joining Silicon Image in early 2002, Dr. Northcutt held the title of distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he led a Sun Labs research group that created a number of products, including the Sun Ray, Java Media APIs, Sun Media Center and SunTuner. While at Sun, Dr. Northcutt twice received the President's Award for his technical contributions, and ended his 12-year tenure as chief technologist of Sun's Internet Desktop and Servers Group. Previously, he was a member of the research faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, where he led the research project that developed the Alpha real-time operating system and multiprocessor test bed. Dr. Northcutt holds 12 patents, is the author of a book on real-time distributed operating systems, and has authored over 40 articles and technical reports on time-critical computing, distributed systems, multimedia and thin clients. Dr. Northcutt received a master's degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in computer and electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Noland Granberry VP Finance, Corporate Controller & CAO In his role as chief accounting officer and corporate controller, reporting to the chief financial officer, Noland Granberry is responsible for leading and managing worldwide accounting and financial reporting, and for monitoring internal controls over financial reporting. Granberry joined Silicon Image from Xilinx, Inc., a manufacturer of programmable logic solutions, where he served as the Director of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance. At Xilinx, he established and managed a highly successful compliance program. Prior to his time at Xilinx, Granberry served as senior director of finance at SanDisk Corporation, a supplier of flash-based data storage products. While at SanDisk, he managed the worldwide accounting and financial reporting activities including monitoring internal controls over financial reporting. He was heavily involved in a secondary public offering which netted $522 million dollars for the company. Granberry also held positions as the corporate controller at IKOS Systems, Inc. and as a senior audit manager at Ernst & Young. His background in the financial and technology industry stretches over 20 years and includes experience in auditing, SOX compliance, accounting, tax filing and financial forecasting. Granberry earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration with a focus on accounting from Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan.

As Chief Operating Officer at Silicon Image, Dal Santo is responsible for directing the company's engineering, operations, marketing, sales and business development functions. Dal Santo joined Silicon Image from AMD, where he served as vice president and general manager responsible for the full multifunctional management of its Handheld Products Division. Prior to AMD, Dal Santo worked for more than a decade at Motorola. As vice president of GSM technology development for Motorola, he was responsible for designing the core engine for next-generation cellular phones and managed a team of more than 500 people located around the world. Dal Santo received his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Purdue University and the Illinois Institute of Technology, respectively.

Zimmerman comes to Silicon Image from Texas Instruments, where he established and built the highly-successful DLP TV business. Zimmerman amassed a wealth of experience in 23 years at Texas Instruments. As general manager of the DLP TV business, he grew revenues from zero in 2002 to several hundred million dollars in 2005. Zimmerman took the helm of DLP TV after successfully starting the DLP Home Theater business and building a market share of more than 50 percent. His prior roles held at Texas Instruments include general manger of the DLP Large Venue business and manager of engineering. Dale forged his career at Texas Instruments through a variety of roles in R&D, product development, program management and business development.

Pak brings to Silicon Image over 20 years of semiconductor management and design expertise with an emphasis on high-speed digital design and CAD methodology. He was also the principal founder of TransWarp Networks, and earlier was a co-founder and vice president of engineering at SandCraft, where he was instrumental in developing a number of world-class, high-performance 64-bit embedded microprocessors based on the MIPS architecture. He has also held various technical management and engineering positions at Silicon Graphics, MIPS, Cadence, AMD and Data General. Pak holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from U.C. Berkeley.

As Vice President of Business Development and Intellectual Property Licensing at Silicon Image, Almgren is responsible for growing the semiconductor and software IP licensing business for PC, storage and consumer electronic segments. During his tenure, he has grown the business from $6 million in recognized licensing revenue in 2002 to $44 million in 2006. He has also established IP licensing as a Silicon Image revenue category requiring coordination of cross-functional resources including product definition and development, engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Silicon Image, Almgren was the CEO and director of Vivcom, where he led corporate strategy and development of PVR, set top box and video search and indexing server software products. Almgren was the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Mixman Technologies Inc. (www.mixman.com), a consumer music hardware, software and content company. Almgren has also held executive leadership positions at Beatnik as a board member and EVP Corporate Development as well as business management and engineering positions at LSI Logic and Hewlett-Packard. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara, and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Texas.

As Vice President of Business Development and Intellectual Property Licensing at Silicon Image, Almgren is responsible for growing the semiconductor and software IP licensing business for PC, storage and consumer electronic segments. During his tenure, he has grown the business from $6 million in recognized licensing revenue in 2002 to $44 million in 2006. He has also established IP licensing as a Silicon Image revenue category requiring coordination of cross-functional resources including product definition and development, engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Silicon Image, Almgren was the CEO and director of Vivcom, where he led corporate strategy and development of PVR, set top box and video search and indexing server software products. Almgren was the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Mixman Technologies Inc. ( www.mixman.com ), a consumer music hardware, software and content company. Almgren has also held executive leadership positions at Beatnik as a board member and EVP Corporate Development as well as business management and engineering positions at LSI Logic and Hewlett-Packard. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara, and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Texas.

Dr. Shin has nearly 25 years of research and development experience in semiconductor technology and design, along with executive management experience. Dr. Shin hails from Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. (formerly Hyundai Electronics Industries), where he served as executive vice president responsible for memory product and technology development. Previously, he was president and CEO of Hyundai DynaLogic, Inc., a Hyundai subsidiary, and senior vice president and general manager of the System IC Division, heading the system LSI, ASIC, and foundry businesses. Prior to Hyundai, Dr. Shin spent more than eight years at the IBM Watson Research Center, first as a research staff member, and later as manager of the Digital Communication IC Design Group. He started his career at Korea Institute of Electronics Technology, where he led microcontroller development. Dr. Shin received a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from U.C. Berkeley.

In an early 2007 acquisition of sci-worx, a leading intellectual property (IP) and design service provider specializing in multimedia, communications, and networking applications based in Hanover, Germany, Jurgen Ruprecht joined Silicon Image as vice president of systems development. In this role, Ruprecht is responsible for overseeing the integration, enhancement and acceleration of the expansion of Silicon Image's system-on-a-chip (SoC) design capabilities for the storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition (HD) content in the consumer environment. Ruprecht brings 25 years' experience in the semiconductor business driving profitable growth in competitive markets. Prior to joining Silicon Image, Ruprecht served as chief executive officer of sci-worx (formerly: Sican), where he was responsible for the major overhaul of company into Europe's leading IP and Design Service provider. Prior to sci-worx, Ruprecht served in various high level management positions, including several years Philips Semiconductors/USA. As vice president and general manager of the BL Infotainment he started the 'going digital' initiative to prepare the company for the shift in the consumer electronics world towards digital technology. He led BL wireless/USA through a critical turnaround of its highly visible CDMA business. Ruprecht holds a Dipl. Ing. Degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kiel .

RRado brings more than 35 years of extensive industry experience to this new role as vice president of worldwide operations and quality at Silicon Image. He is responsible for supply chain management, procurement, manufacturing, distribution, test engineering and quality. Previously, Rado was vice president of engineering of Storage Systems at Silicon Image, responsible for the development, quality assurance, and program management its storage technology and products. Prior to Silicon Image, Rado spent 17 years at Sun Microsystems. During his tenure, Rado served in a variety of leadership roles, most recently, as vice president of engineering for the Volume System Products at Sun. He also held leadership positions in Sun's Workstation Business Unit, Worldwide Operations and Boston Development Center. Prior to Sun, Rado served in management and engineering roles at Apollo Computer Inc. and Digital Equipment Corp. Rado holds a Bachelor’s degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Rashid Osmani is responsible for the design, development, and commercialization of intellectual property and integrated circuit solutions at Silicon Image. With more than 25 years of management and product development experience, Osmani leads Silicon Image’s engineering efforts in support of the company’s strategy to deliver pure digital content everywhere. Osmani joins Silicon Image from RF Micro Devices, where he served as Vice President and General Manager from 2005 to 2008. Prior to that, Osmani held the position of Senior Director of Engineering at Motorola, leading the architecture and systems engineering team for the cellular handset division. Osmani has been awarded 13 U.S. patents. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a master’s of technology degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad, India.

Sal Cobar Vice President of Worldwide Sales Prior to his most recent appointment in April 2007, Cobar, served as Silicon Image’s senior director, strategic accounts and Americas sales, where he was instrumental in developing and spearheading the company’s overall strategic account sales initiatives as well as leading the America’s sales team. Cobar brings over 30 years of industry experience to his role at Silicon Image. Prior to joining the company in April 2001, Cobar held several strategic sales and marketing positions during a 12-year tenure at Sun Microsystems. In those positions, Cobar had management and executive responsibilities for engineering, operations, and the creation and execution of new markets for network-based thin client technology. In June 1980, Cobar joined Xerox Corporation for nine years driving multiple engineering and operations initiatives, including designing a half million square foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility with automated material replenishment system that provided JIT component delivery from suppliers to the assembly line. Cobar earned a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from California State University, San Jose and a master’s degree in marketing from Golden Gate University, San Francisco.

As head of worldwide human resources, William Hammack is responsible for the global management and coordination of all Silicon Image human resources policies and programs to ensure the highest degree of leadership talent for the future growth of the company. Mr. Hammack leads the development of policies that support of the company's strong belief in its organization and employees, as well as the interest of the company's customers and shareholders. Mr. Hammack has over 30 years of experience in the development and implementation of worldwide HR programs covering the areas of staffing, reorganization, compensation, benefits, equity, employee relations, training, professional and organizational development, as well as acquisition integration. Prior to joining Silicon Image, Mr. Hammack served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Komag, Inc. where he was instrumental in the restructure and management of a human resources department that supported 8,000 employees in multiple locations in Malaysia and the United States. Other previous appointments include Vice President of Human Resources positions at Zambeel, QRS Corporation, and General Electric Medical Systems.

Andy Rappaport joined August Capital in 1996. He brings technology and market expertise in such areas as open-source software, broadband communications, semiconductors, and computer systems.

Hodge brings more than 16 years of experience in investment banking focused on the global technology industry. He has completed more than 200 transactions for numerous leading technology companies, such as Silicon Image, Apple, Applied Materials, Broadcom, Google, Intel, Phillips, Samsung and TiVo. He has advised clients on a wide array of strategic transactions and financings in a broad range of industries and has worked on transactions in North America, Europe and Asia. He was the team leader on Google's groundbreaking $1.9 billion auction IPO and the SMIC $1.8 billion dual-listed IPO (the largest Chinese semiconductor foundry). Currently, John is with the Blackstone Group in the Private Equity division where he is focused on technology investments. Prior to the Blackstone Group, he was a senior advisor and managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston's (CSFB) technology group and in a separate tenure at CSFB, served as a managing director and global head of corporate finance. Hodge has been the managing director of west coast corporate finance for Deutsche Bank's technology practice and held positions at Morgan Stanley and Robertson Stephens. Hodge graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University. Hodge is a regular speaker at industry events and a guest lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.