Roubik Gregorian
President and CEO
Roubik is a seasoned management executive and technology visionary with over 25 years of proven experience in the semiconductor industry. Roubik has successfully held roles as CEO, COO, CTO as well as senior general and technical management positions in publicly-traded companies and start-ups. He is widely known in the communications IC industry as a leading expert in mixed-signal design and digital signal processing. Prior to Plato Networks, he served as President/CEO and board member of publicly-traded EXAR Corporation where he was instrumental in transitioning the company into a major supplier of communication ICs. Roubik joined Exar through the acquisition of Startech Semiconductor, where he served as President and board member. Prior to Startech, he worked at Sierra Semiconductors where he held a variety of positions, most recently as Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer. During his employment at Sierra Semiconductors he directed product strategy and development activities including the company's data communications and graphic products which were instrumental in taking the company public in 1991. He began his career with American Microsystems, where he worked for six years in a variety of engineering and management roles and received several awards including one for developing the industry's first PCM CODEC. His last position at AMI was Department Manager for analog and telecommunications products.
Roubik has been issued 28 patents, authored two textbooks and 45 technical articles. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA as well as a M.Sc. from Tehran University.
Joseph Babanezhad
Chief Technical Officer
Joseph co-founded Plato Networks and has successfully developed several leadership designs for both wireline and wireless applications. His areas of expertise include high-speed analog and signal processing. Previously, he managed wireless communications IC design at National Semiconductor. At Sierra Semiconductor, Joseph was responsible for managing a variety of IC designs for data communications, telecommunications, and biomedical applications. He also held design positions at Xerox, Teledyne and Comp-U-Med. Joseph has numerous journal and conference technical publications and has received eleven U.S. patents. He was a founding member of the IEEE 802.3an 10GBASE-T standards committee. Joseph received a B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.
Pirooz Hojabri
Vice President, Engineering
Pirooz co-founded Plato Networks and has led the development of physical layer solutions for a variety of applications including Ethernet, WLAN, CDMA, AMP and DECT. With over 20 years of experience in analog mixed signal, his design expertise includes data converters, signal processing and sub-micron IC development. Pirooz also brings extensive experience with CAD Tools, foundry partnerships, packaging, assembly and characterization/testing programs. Prior to Plato, Pirooz developed a custom design methodology and managed analog front end projects at Adaptec focused on optical/magnetic servos for mass storage systems. Prior to Adaptec, he also held circuit design roles for high speed PLDs and analog memories for voice at ICT Corporation. Prior to ICT, Pirooz managed high speed data converter designs for video and imaging applications at Micro Power Systems. Pirooz started his design career at National Semiconductor designing IC's for wireless communications and high-resolution data converters. Pirooz holds one U.S. patent and received a B.S. degree from University of California at Davis and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Arizona.
Sid Yenamandra
Vice President, Marketing
Sid brings extensive experience in the communications and storage industry. Most recently, he served as Sr. Director, Marketing and Systems Engineering for HIFN (Acquired by Exar Corporation). In this role, his responsibilities included managing the P&L and leading the product management, field applications and systems engineering organizations. Prior to Hifn, Sid served as Sr. Director of Marketing and System Engineering for Exar's Optical Networking & Storage Product Lines where he launched SATA and Ethernet over SONET product lines. Prior to Exar, Sid co-founded PacketFX, a pioneer in WLAN and Metro Ethernet Switch IC's. Sid led marketing efforts at Broadcom for their award-winning Enterprise Gigabit Ethernet Switching product line. Sid was instrumental in growing Broadcom's Enterprise Switch business to its market leadership position. Prior to Broadcom, he held product management roles at Mindspeed for the industry's first 10Gbps PHY layer device and switch fabric ASIC. Sid started his career, as a hardware design engineer at Applied Materials. Sid has been a featured speaker in several leading technology conferences and has published over 20 technical articles and white papers. He was an early member of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance and received an Outstanding Contributor Award in 2001 for his efforts to advance 10 Gigabit Ethernet technologies. Sid received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley.
Eric Chen
Vice President, Digital Design
Eric is a seasoned engineering professional with over 25 years of experience in both hardware and software development. Previously, as Vice President of Engineering at Exar Corporation he was responsible for T/E, SONET, ATM, Ethernet and SATA storage products. In this role he managed the successful development of over 20 digital and mixed signal system on a chip (SoC) devices. His prior experiences include developing set top terminals at Scientific Atlanta and video ICs at Aura Vision. He also developed 3D graphics engines for the IBM workstation division. Eric received M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Clemson University and George Washington University.
Hakim Mesiwala
Vice President, Systems Engineering
Hakim is an accomplished leader in DSP and communications systems engineering with expertise in developing DSP architectures and algorithms and implementing communications systems on a chip. At Cirrus Logic, he spearheaded DSP architecture and algorithm efforts across a wide range of applications including optical storage, HPNA and wireless LANs. His prior experiences include developing state of the art algorithms for high speed data communications products at PMC-Sierra and Digicom, now a part of Creative Labs. More recently, Hakim led a systems and firmware development project for WiMax at Intel. He has also been involved with development efforts in VOIP and audio and has been issued 3 patents. Hakim received a Ph.D. in Digital Signal Processing from Stanford University.
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