Management Team

Akros Silicon Inc. was founded in January 2005 by a team of seasoned semiconductor entrepreneurs, including J. Francois Crepin (former President, COO and Director of Metalink, Ltd., a wireline and wireless semiconductor leader), John Camagna (former Vice President of Engineering at Metalink), and Sajol Ghoshal (former COO at Calpont, a hardware-based database management development-stage company).

Akros Silicon’s leadership team has extensive experience in building high-growth companies that deliver industry-leading products.

 

Parviz Ghaffaripour
President & CEO, Director

Mr. Ghaffaripour is a seasoned executive in the semiconductor industry with a proven track record in generating revenue and profits. He brings over 24 years of semiconductor experience to Akros Silicon, having served tenures at Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc., Maxim Integrated Products Inc., National Semiconductor Corporation and Exar Corporation.

As COO and EVP at AnalogicTech, Mr. Ghaffaripour led the company’s transition into product line organizations, grew revenue and profitability, and established the infrastructure for new product developments which resulted in record number of new product releases in 2007. While at Maxim, Mr. Ghaffaripour most recently served as Vice President, establishing the successful System Sensing and Interconnect Products business unit. Prior to that, he worked in a variety of positions at National Semiconductor, most recently as the Product line Director of the Audio Business Unit inventing many industry standard products and architectures.

Mr. Ghaffaripour earned a BSEE at University of California at Berkeley, a MSEE at Santa Clara University and executive degrees in Business Administration at Stanford University and Western Ontario. He holds four Patents.

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J. Francois Crepin
President-International, WW Sales, Co-Founder

Mr. Crepin has also served as President, COO and Director of Metalink Ltd. since March 1999. Under his leadership, Metalink completed its IPO in 1999 and a Secondary Offering in March 2000. Prior to that, he held various Vice President positions at Level One Communications Inc., including VP Marketing and Sales, Business Development and M&A as well as Divisional GM. Before that, Mr. Crepin served as Director of Strategic Planning for Information Communications at LSI Logic, and Director of Telecom at National Semiconductor Corp.

Mr. Crepin holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Grenoble University and an M.B.A. from the University of Paris.

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John Camagna
 Vice President of Engineering, Co-Founder

Mr. Camagna has extensive experience in IC product development from vision and inception to mass production for data acquisition, voice-band processing, wireless communications and telecom. He has created numerous ICs, has built design engineering organizations from the ground up, and has created many chips.

He is a recognized pioneer in the broadband arena for his work at Metalink Ltd., where, as Vice President of Engineering, he directed mixed-signal wire-line AFE and RF IC developments. Prior to that, he directed the DSL program at Level One, creating the industry’s first HDSL2 chipset.

Mr. Camagna also held engineering management positions at Crystal Semiconductor/Cirrus Logic and Applied Signal Technology. He holds a B.S. and M.S. with Highest Honors from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of 5 patents.

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Sajol Ghoshal
Office of CTO, Co-Founder, Director

Mr. Ghoshal was previously Chief Operating Officer at Calpont Corp., a development-stage company specializing in hardware database systems, where he was responsible for engineering, operations, worldwide sales, product marketing and applications support. At Calpont, he engaged key alpha development partners such as FedEx, Acxiom, NCR/Teradata and Business Objects.

Prior to Calpont, he was Vice President of Engineering of Agere Inc. in Austin, TX. Agere Inc. was acquired by Lucent in 2000. Mr. Ghoshal was instrumental in delivering the industry’s first 2.5/10Gigabit/s Network Processor on TSMC 0.13u process. Before Agere, he worked for 13 years at Level One Communications, where he served as Director of Engineering of the WAN Access Division.

Mr. Ghoshal has 21 years of experience and holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of 7 patents.

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