Management

Phil Delansay

President & CEO

Phil has directed technical teams for the past 12 years. After starting his career at NEC and Alcatel, Phil joined Lightera Networks, later acquired by Ciena. At Ciena, he was Director of the optical engineering team, responsible for the development of SONET/Ethernet interfaces for Ciena’s market leading CoreDirector switching system. Prior to co-founding Aquantia, Phil was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock Partners. He received his Ph.D. in Semiconductor Physics from Orsay University and his MSEE from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, France.

Bill Woodruff

VP Marketing & Business Development

Bill has identified and driven multiple generations of leading-edge interconnect technologies. He led Velio’s penetration of the grooming switch market. Earlier positions include GiGA (acquired by Intel), Vitesse and Mostek. He holds a BSEE from the University of Missouri and an MBA from SMU.

Ramin Shirani

VP Engineering

Ramin Shirani has participated in the development of each generation of UTP-based Ethernet PHYs, including low-power 1000BASE-T technology for multi-port devices. Ramin began his career at National Semiconductor. His accomplishments also include the co-founding of Enable (acquired by Agere) and Plexus Networks. He holds 10 patents and received both his BSEE and MSEE from UC San Diego.

Ahmad Ghaemmaghami

VP Operations

Ahmad has over 20 years of experience in semiconductor operations. Before joining Aquantia, he was vice president of manufacturing operations at AMCC, where he was responsible for strategic business development, planning and directing all aspects of the operations organization’s initiatives. He previously led operations at Silicon Image. Ahmad holds four patents and received his BSEE from the University of California at San Diego.

Sean Keohane

VP Sales

Sean Keohane has over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing for the networking semiconductor and network systems markets. He has served with National Semiconductor, Allied Telesyn, SMC Networks and Accton Technology. He brings Aquantia worldwide experience in sales growth, strategic relationships and customer development for the networking market. He holds a BS in Business Management and an MBA from San Jose State University.

Ramin Farjad

Chief Architect

Ramin Farjad has established himself as a leading architect of high performance, high bandwidth communications circuits. As a founding member of Velio communications (later acquired by Rambus), he contributed to the development of multiple generations of multi-Gbps serial transceivers in high-throughput networking switches. At Rambus, he developed the company’s next-generation, multi-Gbps backplane transceivers. He holds Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Board of Directors

Phil Delansay - Aquantia Corp. President & CEO

Ramin Shirani - Aquantia Corp. VP of Engineering

Eric O'Brien - Lightspeed Venture Partners, Managing Director

Charles Chi - Greylock Partners, General Partner

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