Abacus Semiconductor's Strategic Advisory Board comprises of the best minds of the business side in the industry of semiconductor design, processor architectures, mathematics and computer science. The Strategic Advisory Board is responsible for helping Marketing to create a push-pull strategy to go to Market and address not only the customers, but also the customer's customers. It assists the company in identifying talent, in making the workplace attractive to all high-performers, and in setting goals for diversity, inclusion and equal treatment for all members of the team.

Jeffrey Chapline, Chairman

Jeffrey Chapline is a seasoned executive who has dedicated his career to improving fairness, inclusion and the implementation of diversity in organizations ranging from non-profits to small-to-medium sized corporations. His work has led him to develop and execute service and research projects in the greater San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and East and South Bay-Area regions in a variety of diverse settings. He has managed cross-cultural projects employing contractors working in multiple languages with proven leadership in coordinating and motivating diverse teams. For more information on Jeffrey please refer to his page.

Axel Kloth

Axel Kloth is the Founder and CEO of Abacus Semiconductor Corporation. He has has built many world-class teams from scratch, over and over again. While he has always been focused on inclusion and diversity within his teams, and while his engineering teams and team leads were always attracting women at a higher rate than the industry average, he had never formalized those goals and practices. The SAB is a vehicle to address this. For more information on Axel please refer to his page.

Deepak Rana

Dr. Deepak Rana is a business and technology leader who has led every aspect of product lifecycle, from ideation to revenues. He built and brought >30 products to the market in Cybersecurity, AI, HDTV, CDN, Networking, HPC, and Edge/Cloud, generating >$3B in revenues. He led >$2B M&As and strategic initiatives (founding PowerPC team, HDTV coding/decoding/transmission, Video on Demand, Optical Networking, and SDN/NFV – the foundation of software defined functions today). Most recently he spearheaded AI/ML in cybersecurity products at PANW, in particular Network security and Intelligence. In the past he worked at Intel (MCM, GM), Ericsson, AT&T/Lucent, AMD, and IBM. He has a PhD in Computer Vision and AI. For his MS, he built a systolic array (precursor to TPU) chips. For more information on Dr. Deepak Rana please refer to ThinkScan.

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