Joel Dedrick Joel is a 25+ year veteran of the Semiconductor Industry. Most recently as an Executive in Residence at USVP, he helped a number of companies refine their business plans and obtain initial funding. In addition to Kleer, Joel served on the board of Veriwave (wireless LAN test equipment), and was a board observer at Axiom Microdevices (CMOS cellular power amps), Optichron (nonlinear DSP), Synfora (automated hardware/software partitioning), and Ditrans (CDMA transceiver IC’s).Prior to USVP, Joel was part of the executive team at Aanetcom, which was acquired by PMC-Sierra (PMCS) in February of 2000. AT PMC, Joel helped define the company’s 10Gbps Ethernet product strategy. Previously, Joel held executive management and engineering management roles at Integrated Device Technology (IDTI), Vitesse Semiconductor (VTSS), and Logic Devices, Inc. (LOGC). Joel holds Electrical Engineering degrees from the University of Nebraska and Southern Methodist University. |