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Dado Banatao provides Tallwood with a unique entrepreneurial perspective. Mr. Banatao is currently the Managing Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital.
As an engineer, he is credited with developing several key semiconductor technologies and is regarded as a Silicon Valley visionary. As an investor, he has a keen sense of trends and opportunities involving technology solutions for computing and communications. Prior to forming Tallwood, Mr. Banatao was a Venture Partner at the Mayfield Fund. He has co-founded three technology startups, S3 (SBLU), Chips & Technologies (INTC) and Mostron. He has also held positions at National Semiconductor, Seeq Technologies, Intersil and Commodore International. Mr. Banatao was honored with the prestigious Master Entrepreneur of the Year Award sponsored by Ernst & Young, Inc. Magazine and Merrill Lynch Business Financial Services in 1997.
Dado serves as Chairman for SiRF Technology (SIRF) and current Tallwood portfolio companies. He also served as Chairman and led investments in Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), Acclaim Communications, acquired by Level One (INTC), Newport Communications, acquired by Broadcom (BRCM), Cyras Systems, acquired by Ciena (CIEN), and Stream Machine, acquired by Cirrus Logic (CRUS).
Dado holds a B.S.E.E. cum laude from the Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University.
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