Dr. Rabii co-founded Arda Technologies in
October 2006 and serves as the company's CEO. Dr. Rabii has 20 years of experience in design, research,
manufacturing and marketing of electronics. Most recently, he was a founder of Aeluros (now part of
NetLogic), a leading provider of 10Gb/s Ethernet transceivers for fiber optic communications where he had
responsibility for engineering and business development on multiple products. Before co-founding Aeluros, he
led the group at Atheros Communications (NASDAQ:ATHR) that developed and introduced 5GHz CMOS front-end
wireless LAN chips into manufacturing. In his previous position at Level One Communications (now part of
Intel), he led the design of a CMOS voiceband codec that was integrated with a large DSP. He was also a
member of the Level One RF CMOS team whose cordless phone chip sets dominated the 900MHz and 2.4GHz spread
spectrum markets. Dr. Rabii holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University for his
work on low-power, high-resolution CMOS sigma-delta A/D converter design for digital audio. He has
co-authored 9 peer review publications and a book on low-power sigma-delta A/D conversion. He was a visiting
lecturer at Stanford University from 1999 to 2001 and holds 8 patents.
Dr. Kumar is a co-founder of Arda
Technologies and serves as the Vice President of Operations. Most recently, Dr. Kumar has been an independent
consultant to a major bio-tech company and to a manufacturer of semiconductor test systems. Before becoming a
consultant, he was the Vice President of Technical Marketing at 3MTS, a provider of semiconductor test
systems. He also served as the Managing Director of 3MTS Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary corporation that he
established in India. Prior to joining 3MTS, Dr. Kumar was the Chief Technical Officer at HPL, a provider of
software for yield optimization in wafer fabrication facilities. Dr. Kumar earned a Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University for his work on a CAD tool for the automated generation of test chips
and test programs for silicon foundries.
Mr. Tham serves as the company's Vice
President of Engineering. He brings 28 years of experience in electronics, including 18 years with RF
integrated circuits design. Most recently, he was the Vice President of RF and Mixed Signal Design at SiPort
Inc., a provider of digital multimedia broadcast receiver SOCs. Prior to joining SiPort, Mr. Tham was the
Vice President of Engineering, RF and Mixed Signal Design at Berkana Wireless (acquired by Qualcomm). Mr.
Tham is recognized as an industry authority on numerous wireless transceiver architectures for applications
including 900MHz DSS, WLAN 802.11b/g/a, and multiband cellular RFIC chipsets. He holds 11 patents. The
products he designed and developed have resulted in cumulative revenue in excess of $350 million. He has also
held engineering design management positions at Maxim and Conexant / Rockwell, and held engineering positions
at Trimble Navigation and Raytheon. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Mr. Tham earned an M.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Highest
Honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
