SiTune Corporation is an innovator of multiple generations of state-of-the-art RF and Mixed signal System on a Chip for 5G wireless transceivers and broadcast receivers. SiTune is currently shipping multiple products including tuners for advanced multi-channel TVs and Mobile TVs. SiTune products are differentiated based on their unique architecture and design resulting in products with lower power consumption and superior performance.
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Vahid Toosi founded SiTune in 2008, and he has been working in the field of RF design and management for more than 21 years. His deep expertise and passion in semiconductor paved the way for SiTune to evolve into a well-established company bringing advanced full spectrum SoCs and multi-channel Tuners into reality. SiTune’s outstanding team of RF and system designers under the management of Vahid as SiTune’s CEO introduced multiple industry proven products into Cable, TV and set top box markets.
Marzieh has been actively involved in the development of science and technology in the field of Wireless communication for the past 18 years. She has authored and co-authored numerous papers and patents with novel fundamental ideas to improve the performance of wireless networks by designing new protocols in the medium access layers as well as new hardware implementation techniques that support and help the higher layer distribution algorithms to attain lower latency and higher reliability. This includes her PhD Thesis, papers and patents while working as a scientist and CTO as well as CPO at SiTune corporation. She has acted as Journal reviewer, Book co-author and Teaching assistant during her graduate studies and Co-founded SiTune in 2007 during her PhD years.
Marzieh has helped in developing SiTune’s successful commercialized products in terms of architecture design, research and product development. She has directly managed the R&D team and handled patents composition and submission as well as managing projects and partnerships while working on the innovation aspects of the company’s products. She is the chief architect for SiTune’s advanced products such as 5G Transceivers, DPD design for Power Amplifiers, and Full Duplex Design for DOCSIS 3.1 RF Front End. Her PhD work was based on implementation of novel communication protocols for wireless network and cross-layer design for attaining concurrency in wireless spectrum allocation. She worked at Hitachi America in 2011 for a year on protocol development for lowering power consumption in WiFi based monitoring systems. Her work across wireless communication layers from complex physical layer optimization algorithms to meticulous MAC layer protocol resulted in many publications and more than 20 patents.
Raghu brings more than 30 years’ experience in semiconductor sales and business development, building global sales organizations at startups and public companies. Raghu has extensive international experience with assignments in Asia and Europe with responsibilities for growing sales and business development teams.
Prior to joining SiTune, he was head of business development at PeerNova. Previously, he held executive positions at Zenverge, Marvell Semiconductor, GlobeSpan Virata/Conexant Systems, TerLogic and LSI Logic.
Amir Fazlollahi has been an R&D engineering team leader and manager for the past 20 years. In his most recent roles he led the development of an extended reach distributed MIMO WLAN system, enhancement to a WLAN Ethernet backhaul, Multi-User MIMO for distributed MIMO and next generation DSL systems, and 10GBASE-T and automotive Ethernet systems.
Dr. Sam Heidari is a seasoned executive and board member for both public and private companies, with decades of experience innovating novel technologies as well as building successful products and businesses. Currently, he is the chairman of the board for SiTune and Aerial Technologies as well as an operating partner at Cota Capital and a board member at Greenwave Systems, Haila Technology and BigStream. Prior to that, he was the Chairman of the board and CEO of Quantenna Communications in which he drove the organization in developing the most advanced Wi-Fi
hardware and software solutions to date – thereby enabling networking applications previously not thought possible. Dr. Heidari led Quantenna’s growth from zero revenue to more than $200M, its successful IPO in 2016, and its subsequent acquisition in 2019. Prior to Quantenna, he served as chief technology officer at Ikanos Communications. He joined Ikanos as one of the original team members and provided meaningful contributions to its IPO. Then, Dr. Heidari rejoined Ikanos in 2006 via the acquisition of Doradus Technologies, where he had served as president and CEO. Under his management, Doradus grew from founding to profitability within 18 months.
Dr. Heidari has served on the Global Semiconductor Alliance Board of Directors and on the advisory board for both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments at the University of Southern California. He is a senior member of IEEE and holds about 50 U.S. and international patents. Dr. Heidari was named the 2014 Executive of the Year by the Golden Bridge Awards and the 2017 Executive of the Year by UBM. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Southern California, and a B.S. degree from Northeastern University, all in Electrical Engineering.
Before forming Cota Capital, Bobby spent over 20 years investing in technology companies both individually and through his family office, Signatures Capital, which he founded in 2006. Through his family office and Cota Capital, Bobby has invested in over 200 private companies. Drawing from nearly three decades
of entrepreneurial experience in Silicon Valley, Bobby mentors, advances and empowers entrepreneurs on their journey to build great companies. In 2014, Bobby was ranked #1 out of 2000 angel investors for successful follow-on funding by CB Insights. Bobby made his first investment in 1989 in medical technology company Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI), where, in addition to providing capital, he wrote software to enhance the accuracy of the company’s early neonatal pulse oximeters.
Bobby founded Saba Software (“Saba”) in 1997, taking the company public in 2000. Saba was the pioneer of Learning Management and Talent Management Solutions, serving over 30 million people from 2,200 customers across 195 countries and in 37 languages worldwide. Saba was acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSOD) in 2020. At Saba, Bobby served as CEO from 1997 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2013. Prior to Saba, Bobby worked in various R&D roles at Oracle Corporation from 1988 to 1997.
Since making his first investment in Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ: MASI) in 1989, Bobby has successfully mentored entrepreneurs and invested in more than 200 companies.
Bobby has endowed the American Legacy Fund in partnership with U.S. Soccer, the Berkeley Changemaker Endowment and the Signatures Innovation Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley; the Maryam Mirzakhani Endowed Professorship at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute; and the Yazdani Family Endowed Scholarship, the Parivash Yazdani Research Fund, and the Maker Space at University of Southern California. Bobby serves on the President’s Leadership Council at University of Southern California.
Born in Tehran, Iran, Bobby completed high school in England and received a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. John Cioffi is a 30-year veteran of the DSL industry and holds numerous prestigious awards for his contributions to technology and industry. Prior to founding ASSIA in 2003, he served as founder, CTO, and vice president of engineering at Amati before its acquisition by Texas Instruments. Dr. Cioffi held a tenured endowed professorship at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1985-2009, where he is now an active Professor Emeritus with limited ongoing research efforts in broadband access.
C. L. Max Nikias became the University of Southern California’s eleventh president in August 2010. He is the holder of the Robert C. Packard President’s Chair and the Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology and the Humanities, and also chairs the USC Hospitals Governing Board. He has been at USC since 1991, as a professor, director of national research centers, dean, provost, and now president. He holds faculty appointments in both electrical engineering and the classics. In addition, he leads special
Francesco Svelto is Professor of Electronics at University degli Studi di Pavia. He has a long experience in the area of RF circuits and systems in CMOS. He has been technical advisor of RFDomus Inc., a start-up he co-founded in 2002 dedicated to highly integrated GPS receivers. After merging with Glonav Inc. (Ireland), RFDomus has been acquired by NXP Semiconductors in 2007. Presently he is the Director of a Scientific Laboratory, joint between University di Pavia and STMicrolectronics,
A globally recognized industry leader, Dr. Hossein Moiin has been instrumental in shaping the mobile industry for the past two decades and is credited with specification of LTE. Currently, he is working on further definition of 5G and its applications while advising technology companies and investment firms on how they can prepare for and thrive in the 5G era. In addition, Dr Moiin is the founder and CEO of edgelab.ai, a company focused on characterization and certification of 5G components and applications as well as an operating partner in Cota Capital, a leading investment firm in San Francisco.
Prior to his current roles, Hossein held leadership positions in Nokia including chief technology and strategy officer. Before Nokia, Hossein held leadership positions in large organizations across the globe, such as BT in London, T-Mobile in Germany and Sun Microsystems in California. Finally, Hossein has been involved with several startups in Silicon Valley and Europe and has helped them to successful exits. Hossein has an in-depth understanding of Technology and its business context and is a published author and patented scientist. Hossein obtained his B.S, M.S and PhD degrees from University of California and resides in San Francisco now after lengthy spells in Europe and Asia.
Mr. Hinman currently serves as the CEO of Levitate Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition corporation he cofounded in February 2021. Throughout his 37-year career. He has been a prolific entrepreneur, executive, venture capitalist, engineer and inventor.
Previously, Mr. Hinman co-founded four successful telecommunication companies, three achieving revenues of more than $500M per year; has led two successful IPOs; and as an inventor, has more than 50 issued US patents, and several pending applications. The fields of his inventions include: wireless and wireline telecommunications, antenna design, photovoltaic systems, optical design, industrial design (including the iconic Polycom speakerphone), electric aircraft design and charging systems for electric aircraft.
Mr. Hinman currently operates Clover Aviation and HiveSpot, as intellectual property holding businesses with a focus on advanced aerial mobility and electric aircraft charging solutions, respectively. Mr. Hinman earned his BSEE from the University of Maryland with a SMEE from MIT.