Management
Stephen L. Diamond, Managing Director
Steve
Diamond has 30 years of management, marketing, and engineering experience in
semiconductors, systems, standards, and software. Previously, Steve was Vice President of Marketing at Equator
Technologies, a broadband signal-processor semiconductor startup; Vice President
of Business Development at Tycho Networks, a telecommunications startup;
Director of Strategic Planning and Market Development at National Semiconductor;
Director of SPARC Marketing at Sun Microsystems; Director of Microprocessor
Architecture and Applications Engineering at National Semiconductor; General
Manager of the Honeywell/Synertek microprocessor division; and Research
Associate in biomedical signal processing at the University of California. He
has authored more than 20 technical publications on signal processing, expert
systems, computer graphics, and memory and microprocessor technology. Steve
has received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Computer Society Golden
Core Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award.
Steve was elected to the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) Board of Directors for 2005-07. The IEEE is the world's leading
organization for the advancement of technology. In 2003 he was
President of the
IEEE Computer Society, the world's leading
organization of computer professionals.