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| Doug Young,
President, CEO and Director
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Mr. Young has been President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of NeoMagic since April 2005. Previously, he was VP of Worldwide Sales at NeoMagic. Prior to joining NeoMagic in February of 2004, Mr. Young was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Planetweb, Inc., a provider of embedded multimedia application and browser software for consumer electronics devices. At Planetweb, Mr. Young worked with customers such as Samsung, Sharp, Philips and other large OEMs.
Mr. Young has managed sales in many different environments ranging between large systems enterprise sales to the 'Fortune 500' and ODM and OEM sales in the consumer electronics market. He has over 25 years experience working for companies such as IBM, Storage Technology Corporation, Unilease Computer Corporation, Data General and Hitachi Data Systems. He has worked in hardware and software sales, and he was President and CEO of a computer and satellite leasing company.
Mr. Young has a Bachelors of Arts Degree from Princeton University and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from The Stern School of Business at New York University.
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| Deepraj Puar,
Vice President of Operations
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Deepraj Puar, a co-founder of the Company, currently serves as the Company's Vice President of Operations. Since the Company's inception in 1993, Mr. Puar has served in a variety of roles, including Vice President of Technology. Mr. Puar has over 35 years of engineering and management experience in the semiconductor industry, primarily in the area of memory design and logic integration technology. Mr. Puar authored all of the Company's key patents covering embedded DRAM technology. Prior to co-founding the Company in 1993, Mr. Puar was employed by Cirrus Logic, Signetics/Philips and Texas Instruments. Mr. Puar holds a B.TECH degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a MSEE degree from Michigan State University.
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| Syed Zaidi,
COO and Vice President Corporate Engineering
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Syed Zaidi joined the NeoMagic's engineering team in June 1995, was promoted in 2000 to Vice President of Santa Clara Engineering. He was responsible for Santa Clara engineering management and development of MIPS and ARM based multimedia SOC’s. Mr. Zaidi has over 17 years of engineering and management experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining NeoMagic Mr.Zaidi worked at Sierra Semiconductor, where he was responsible for systems engineering of Multimedia products and at Raytheon where he too worked in multimedia semiconductors for high-end Graphics development. He has also worked at Advance Micro Research where he designed and developed UNIX based multi-user systems, multiple Video and Graphic ASICs for Multimedia products. Mr.Zaidi obtained a Bachelors degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Leeds University, England and a BSET from Indiana State University. He also holds several US patents.
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| Steve Berry,
Vice President of Finance & Chief Financial Officer
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Mr. Berry joined NeoMagic in August 2007 as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining NeoMagic, Mr. Berry was Vice President of Finance with Sipex Corporation, a semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and markets a broad portfolio of high performance, value-added, analog integrated circuits for original equipment manufacturers doing business in the high growth markets of networking, computing, communications, optical storage, since May 2004. From June 2000 to January 2004, Mr. Berry was Vice President of Finance, Chief Accounting Officer and Assistant Secretary at BRECIS Communications, a venture backed fabless semiconductor company. He also worked at Ernst & Young, LLP as an auditor and then Operations Controller.
Mr. Berry has a BS from University California, Davis, CA and an MBA from California State University, Hayward, CA. He is a CPA.
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| Pierre-Yves Couteau,
Vice President of Marketing
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Mr. Couteau joined NeoMagic in January 2008 as Vice President of Marketing. Prior to joining NeoMagic, Mr. Couteau was Senior Director of Strategic Marketing with NXP Semiconductors (founded by Philips Semiconductors), a semiconductor company that creates system solutions and software for mobile phones, personal media players, TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices. From March 1993 to September 2006, Mr. Couteau held various marketing and general management positions with Philips Semiconductors where he was responsible for driving innovation in high-growth businesses such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UWB and semiconductors for hard disk drives. Mr. Couteau has an MBA from the Lyon School of Management (France) and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Grenoble Institute of Technology (France).
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