Kianoosh Naghshineh CEO and President Kianoosh Naghshineh brings more than 20 years of engineering and management experience in systems and networking to his role as CEO and president of Chelsio Communications. Before founding Chelsio, Kianoosh was CEO and president of ASIC Designers, Inc., an intellectual property firm providing silicon cores for communications-systems markets. Prior to that, Kianoosh was one of the primary architects of the Origin supercomputer at Silicon Graphics. Prior to SGI, Kianoosh held a variety of product engineering and analog and digital circuit design positions in fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) networking design (bipolar/cmos) at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Kianoosh holds a B.S.E.E. from Cornell University and an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University. He currently holds 10 patents in analog and digital circuit design, computer architecture, networking and host interfaces. |