Juan-Antonio Carballo, Ph.D. has extensive technical and business experience in semiconductor, chip design, and hardware system design, working at institutions such as Digital Equipment Corporation, LSI Logic Corporation, IBM Research, IBM Venture Capital, and Argon Venture Partners. Dr. CarballoA[a¬a[s leadership at IBM Research helped produce new power-efficient adaptive communication chips and systems. He was named Number 1 in the "Top 40 Under 40" list by American Venture Magazine in 2006. He has 23 patent filings in chip and hardware design, and has published more than 50 articles in vari