Abacus Semiconductor's Executive Management is an accomplished team that has proven on multiple occasions that it can successfully build a company and team from the ground up, can execute towards the vision of the founder, bring a project to the finish line on time and on budget, and fulfill market needs. The team is in place and nearly complete.

Axel Kloth, President & Chief Executive Officer

Axel Kloth is Abacus Semiconductor Corporation's Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Abacus Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company focused on closing the order-of-magnitude performance gap between benchmark and real-life performance in supercomputers in most applications. Prior to Abacus Semiconductor he was the Founder and CTO of an AI-augmented security processor company for which he raised over $20M. Before that, he was the Founder and CEO of SSRLabs (HPC) and the Founder and CTO of Parimics (Real-Time Vision and Image/Video Analysis processors). Axel holds over 40 published and soon-to-be published patents in the areas of computer and processor architecture, security architectures, parallelization, switch fabrics, contention resolution and PHY layer networking. He has published multiple books and many articles on processors, I/O, networking and HPC. His work revolves around processors, processor interconnects, switch fabrics and high speed serial links, which make up the bulk of HPC. He introduced CML-type HSSLs on standard (bulk) Silicon CMOS processes in 2000. Aside from being the CEO of Abacus Semiconductor, Axel also serves as a Venture Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures. For more information on Axel please refer to his page here.

To Be Announced, CFO

Abacus Semi's Chief Financial Officer is being onboarded but we cannot yet disclose who it is. For more information on TBA please refer to his page here.

Bryce Egan, Senior Director of WW Marketing and Sales

Bryce Egan is Abacus Semi's Senior Director of Worldwide Marketing and Sales. Bryce started his sales career in humble beginnings executing referral sales selling Cutco knives; he learned top tier customer experience skills from Enterprise Rent-a-Car and mastered the art of the cold calling in various SaaS companies in the SF Bay Area asking open-ended questions with the goal of solving business challenges for clients. Bryce has a degree in Biology, a passion for technology and for making the world more efficient. He worked professionally in a number of sales and business development positions for the past 8 years and is fully prepared to dive into Marketing and Sales challenges into traditional HPC and the emerging AI/ML fields. When he is not working, Bryce loves backpacking, camping, computers, cooking a delicious meal or being a foodie at amazing restaurants around the world. For more information on Bryce please refer to his page here.

Barry Pangrle, Vice President of Hardware Engineering

Barry Pangrle is Abacus Semi's Vice President of Hardware Engineering. His 30-year career in Silicon Valley has encompassed leading teams in fabless semiconductor startups and EDA companies designing new and innovative products. For the past two decades he has specialized in power analysis, management and optimization starting with revitalizing the Synopsys Power Compiler and PrimePower R&D teams circa 2002 which led to tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue for these products. He has twice led the design methodology and flow efforts starting from scratch at fabless semiconductor startups XStream Logic and later at Esperanto Technologies where he was also a co-founder. Barry has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Computer Engineering both from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For more information on Barry please refer to his page here.

Mahesh Iyer, Vice President of Software Engineering

Mahesh Iyer has a career spanning over 3 decades building cutting edge systems & technology centered around solutions accelerated in silicon. Since 1997, this has been entirely in chip companies in a startup culture. Every leadership role required him to wear multiple hats to cover all aspects of software product definition and development, with successful customer delivery and deployment, and product life cycle management. These efforts successfully culminated in generating a total of several billion dollars of incremental annual revenue, having delivered well over 25 chips in his career. It is a rare occurrence in the industry to have designed both ASICs and the accompanying firmware and software for those ASICs, and Mahesh is one of the very few who fit this bill. He has an intimate understanding of the complex interactions between hardware and software, and as such his contributions to the company include the delivery of the firmware and software as well as giving input to the hardware team when and if necessary. Mahesh has a Masters’ in computer Science and a Diploma in Engineering Leadership. For more information on Mahesh please refer to his page here.

Kevin Camera, Vice President of Systems Engineering

Kevin Camera is Abacus Semi's Vice President of Systems Engineering. Prior to joining Abacus Semiconductor Corporation, he was the VP Product at Lumotive, where he led the company efforts to investigate and create strategies around target markets, product definition, and customer as well as partner ecosystems. Before Lumotive, he was the Vice President of Product at Velodyne Lidar. He created a new technical solution focused product organization to drive the next generation of combined hardware and software products for the company. As an individual contributor at National Instruments he assured the successful and seamless integration of BEEcube products into the mainstream NI portfolio. He was the Co-founder and Senior Vice President of Engineering at BEEcube. Kevin received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. He has published many papers on debugging and integration of FPGAs into traditional CPU- and DSP-based real-time and NRT systems. For more information on Kevin Camera please refer to his page here.

Tom Tafolla, Corporate Advisor and Business Development Officer

Tom Tafolla has joined Abacus Semiconductor Corporation to provide contracts management support, government regulatory compliance, and business development services. He has over 30 years of experience working in various corporate legal departments, where he has provided support to executive management in the areas of intellectual property, contracts management, and general legal services. His corporate experience includes working for Cromemco, Inc., Watkins Johnson Company, John Fluke Manufacturing, Racal Vadic, ADAC Laboratories, Applied Biosystems, Intertrust Technologies Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment of America, ESS Technologies, and LTX-Credence. Tom holds a law degree from the University of San Francisco and received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Santa Clara University. For more information on Tom please refer to his page here.

William Ang, Managing Director & General Manager Asia, Pacific & Japan

William Ang joined Abacus Semiconductor Corporation as Managing Director & General Manager for the Asia Pacific & Japan Region as part of the executive management team. He is also responsible to support CEO’s business strategy; and oversight and management of strategic partnerships globally, and executing business development strategies to identify new markets, customer types, and to leverage synergistic opportunities with global partners to grow the company’s business. William Ang has spent over 30 years working in high technology general management, business development, sales, business development, product marketing, supply chain, consulting, and finance. He is a transformational, dynamic turn-around specialist with proven track records of building and leading high-performance teams by transforming underperforming enterprises into successful profitable companies around the globe. William holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic Marketing from University of Hull, UK & he is also a public volunteer writer in Singapore. Apart from being the MD & GM of Abacus Semiconductor for the Asia Pacific & Japan Region, William also serves as Vice President of Sales & Marketing of a leading semiconductor distribution company. For more information on William please refer to his page here.

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