Dr. Ford Tamer was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Networking Group at Broadcom. Previously, Dr. Tamer co-founded and served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Agere, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer, until it was acquired by Lucent Microelectronics. Following the acquisition, he served as Vice President at Lucent's Agere Systems business unit. Prior to founding Agere, he was part of the founding executive teams at Dazel Corporation (which was acquired by Hewlett Packard) and at MegaKnowledge (which was acquired by IntelliCorp). Dr. Tamer received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |