Azuray Board of Directors

Rohini Chakravarthy, Partner, New Enterprise Associates

Rohini joined NEA in 2007 and focuses on information and energy technology investments. In addition to Azuray Technologies, she is on the boards of Luxtera and Plusmo and works closely with Cleeves Engines, Fusion-io, TechForward, Vuclip and other NEA portfolio companies. Prior to joining NEA, Rohini was with Cisco Systems as Head of Wireless, Corporate Business Development and with Intel Capital. Rohini received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and holds a Master's degree from Case Western Reserve University and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, both in Electrical Engineering.

Forest Baskett, Ph.D., General Partner, New Enterprise Associates

Forest joined NEA in 1999 as a Venture Partner and became a General Partner in 2004. He focuses on information and energy technology investments. He is the NEA representative on the boards of Arch Rock, AstroWatt, Audience, Chelsio Communications, Fulcrum Microsystems, Luxtera, Serious Materials, and SiBEAM. He also assists Alta Devices, Aprius, Bandgap Engineering, Conviva, Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP), Fusion-io, Illumitex, NovaTorque, Solar Junction, Tableau Software, Telegent Systems, and T-RAM Semiconductor. Prior to NEA, he was Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. Before SGI, Forest founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation from 1982 to 1986. From 1971 to 1982 he was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Les Crudele, CEO and President

Les Crudele has 30 years experience with leading companies in the semiconductor industry. He began his career at Motorola, where he was chief architect for several Motorola MC68000-series microprocessors and served in a variety of management positions, most recently returning to Motorola in 1990 and serving as vice president and general manager of its RISC Microprocessor Division from 1991 to 1997. Les also has management experience at several computer systems companies, including Compaq, where he served as vice president and general manager of Compaq's Workstation Products Division from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2000, Les served on the board of directors and as a management consultant for Quantum Effect Devices until QED was acquired by PMC-Sierra in 2000. From 2000 to 2004, he served on the board of directors of Banderacom, a privately held InfiniBand semiconductor company, for which he also served as president and CEO from 2000 to 2002. In 2006, he served for a six-month period as COO of Quickfilter Technologies, a privately held fabless semiconductor company. From 2005 to 2009 Les served on the Board of Directors of Transmeta Corporation, a microprocessor and semiconductor technology development and licensing company, where he was also President and CEO from 2007 to 2009. In addition, Les was an early member of the leadership team at MIPS Computer Systems and has served on the board of directors for several privately held companies and industry groups.

Terri Fiez, Ph.D., Head of EECS, Oregon State University

Terri has more than 20 years experience as a technology leader. She was co-founder of Azuray Technologies and served as the initial CEO. Currently and prior to founding Azuray Technologies, she has been Head of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. In this role, she led the merger of the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, grew research by 2.5X in nine years, and she co-founded an innovative education program called TekBots awarded the 2006 IEEE EAB Innovative Education Award. She was awarded the NSF Young Investigator and IEEE Fellow for her contributions to analog and mixed-signal research. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Idaho. After completing the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University, she was a professor at Washington State University where she initiated and built the analog mixed-signal program.