CEO Interview with Dr. Naveen Verma of EnCharge AI

CEO Interview with Dr. Naveen Verma of EnCharge AI
by Daniel Nenni on 07-04-2025 at 6:00 am

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Naveen Verma, Ph.D., is the CEO and Co-founder of EnCharge AI, the only company to have developed robust and scalable analog in-memory computing technology essential for advanced AI deployments, from edge to cloud. Dr. Verma co-founded EnCharge AI in 2022, building on six years of research and five generations of prototypes … Read More


CEO Interview with Faraj Aalaei of Cognichip

CEO Interview with Faraj Aalaei of Cognichip
by Daniel Nenni on 07-01-2025 at 8:00 am

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Faraj Aalaei is a successful visionary entrepreneur with over 40 years of distinguished experience in communications and networking technologies. As a leading entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Faraj was responsible for building and leading two semiconductor companies through IPOs as a founder and CEO.

Post acquisition of … Read More


CEO Interview with Bjorn Kolbeck of Quobyte

CEO Interview with Bjorn Kolbeck of Quobyte
by Daniel Nenni on 06-01-2025 at 10:00 am

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Bjorn Kolbeck received a PhD in Computer Science from Humboldt University in Berlin. Bjorn had previously worked at HPC centers and at Google. His experience with hyperscale architectures led him to co-found Quobyte in 2013.

Tell us about your company?

Quobyte is scale-out storage, and was designed for massive scalability and… Read More


CEO Interview: Ollie Jones of Sondrel

CEO Interview: Ollie Jones of Sondrel
by Daniel Nenni on 12-02-2024 at 6:00 am

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Sondrel has just appointed a new CEO, Ollie Jones, so we had a chat with him to find out his vision for the company.

Ollie is a highly driven, commercially astute senior leader with 20+ years Commercial and Business Development experience across Technology and Engineering sectors.

Ollie has worked extensively across Europe, North… Read More


CEO Interview: Anders Storm of Sivers Semiconductors

CEO Interview: Anders Storm of Sivers Semiconductors
by Daniel Nenni on 08-16-2024 at 6:00 am

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Anders Storm is the CEO of Sivers Semiconductors. Under his almost decade-long leadership, the company has experienced significant growth, solidifying its position as a key player in the global semiconductor industry. With expertise in wifi communications, 5G, and photonics, he drives the company’s corporate strategy, … Read More


CEO Interview: Aleksandr Timofeev of POLYN Technology

CEO Interview: Aleksandr Timofeev of POLYN Technology
by Daniel Nenni on 10-21-2022 at 6:00 am

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Aleksandr Timofeev is CEO and Founder of POLYN Technology, an innovative provider of ultra-low-power high-performance NASP (Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing) technology. Alexander is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years in the high-tech industry. Prior POLYN, he founded iGlass Technology, a company that … Read More


CEO Interview: Charbel Rizk of Oculi

CEO Interview: Charbel Rizk of Oculi
by Daniel Nenni on 11-19-2021 at 6:00 am

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Charbel Rizk is CEO of Oculi®, a spinout from Johns Hopkins University, a fabless semiconductor startup commercializing technology to address the high power and latency challenges of vision technology.  Dr. Rizk recognized these as barriers to effective AI in his years of experience as a Principal Systems Engineer, Lead Innovator,… Read More


CEO Interview: Ted Tewksbury of Eta Compute

CEO Interview: Ted Tewksbury of Eta Compute
by Daniel Nenni on 08-11-2020 at 10:00 am

Ted Tewksbury President CEO Eta Compute

Tell me about Eta Compute’s vision? 
We envision a world where intelligent devices at the network edge make everyones’ lives safer, healthier, more comfortable, and convenient without sacrificing privacy and security.

How do you hope to achieve this? 
We achieve this by providing the lowest power and most energy efficient machine… Read More


CEO Interview: Xerxes Wania of Sidense

CEO Interview: Xerxes Wania of Sidense
by Daniel Nenni on 09-19-2016 at 7:00 am

This is the first in a series of CEO interviews and I thought semiconductor IP would be a great place to start. Xerxes Wania is the President and CEO of Sidense, a leading developer of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) One-Time Programmable (OTP) IP cores. Sidense has been a part of SemiWiki since 2013 so we know them quite well. I hope the rest… Read More