Arteris — Board of directors

K. Charles Janac
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Janac is president and CEO of Arteris where he is responsible for growing and establishing a strong global presence for the company that is pioneering the concept of NoC technology. Janac’s career spans 20 years and multiple industries including electronic design automation, semiconductor capital equipment, nano-technology, industrial polymers and venture capital.

In the first decade of his career, he held various marketing and sales positions at Cadence Design Systems (NYSE: CDN) where he helped build it into one of the ten largest software companies in the world. He joined HLD Systems as president, shifting the company’s focus from consulting services to IC floor planning software and building the management, distribution and customer support organizations. He then formed Smart Machines, manufacturer of semiconductor automation equipment and sold it to Brooks Automation (NASDAQ: BRKS). After a year as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Infinity Capital, a leading early-stage Venture Capital firm, where he consulted on Information Technology investment opportunities, he joined Nanomix as president and CEO helping build this start-up nano-technology company.

Janac holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Organic Chemistry from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

 

Alain Fanet, Founder

Alain Fanet is one of the three founders of Arteris. Previously Fanet was Senior VP and General Manager of the High Speed Internetworking Business Unit (HSI) within Globespan, an ADSL semiconductor company. During his time there he managed the development of a complex DSL network processor family.

Prior to Globespan, Fanet was President, COO and co-founder of T.sqware, Inc. a network processor company. He built the company from 17 engineers to a staff of 75. T.sqware merged with Globespan in 2000. Prior to founding T.sqware, Fanet was Director of the Network Division at Matra Semiconductor, a French subsidiary of the Temic group.

Fanet holds a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the École Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST).

 

Christian Claussen

Christian Claussen is a General Partner at TVM having joined the firm in June 1998.  Focusing on communications and Internet enabling technology, he leads or co-leads TVM's investments as a director of Arteris S.A., Coreoptics Inc., Definiens AG, Infitel International NV, and Telesnap AG, and as case manager for Time AG (acquired by Genesys S.A.) and Tantau Inc. (acquired by 724 Solutions).

Prior to joining TVM, Claussen was responsible for strategic business development and product line management in optical transmission networks, a $1.5 billion business unit part of the Siemens Public Networking Group.

Before going into venture capital, he spent more than eight years gathering operational experience in the international telecommunications industry including a one-year sales assignment in the Philippines back in 1992.

Claussen holds a European M.Sc. degree in Communications Engineering from the Technical University of Karlsruhe [D], the University of Essex [GB] and the École Superieure en Electronique et Electrotechnique in Paris [F].

 

Wayne Cantwell

Cantwell joined Crescendo Ventures in early 2003 after spending nearly 20 years in the semiconductor and SIP industries. Immediately prior to Crescendo, Cantwell served as President and CEO of inSilicon Corporation where he led the company through an IPO and several successful acquisitions.

Before assuming the role of CEO at inSilicon, Cantwell was responsible for overseeing Phoenix Technologies' worldwide field operations where he grew the organization to over 400 people and $125 million in globally distributed business. Cantwell has extensive internationalexperience, having run operations in Japan, Taiwan, and Europe but has spent most of the last seven years based in the Bay Area. Prior to his role with Phoenix Technologies, Cantwell held various sales and engineering positions with Intel Corporation and NEC Corporation.

At Crescendo, Cantwell is focused on working with companies in the semiconductor, SIP and technical software arenas as well as providing operational experience and support to Crescendo's portfolio companies.

 

Jean Bourcereau

Jean Bourcereau spent the last five years with Ventech, investing in Hardware & Communications.

Prior to joining Ventech, he held several business development and management executive positions within the ALTRAN Group, dealing mainly with telecoms and consumer electronics customers. His last assignment was to create a wholly-owned ALTRAN subsidary dedicated to strategic and technologic due diligences for private equity firms. Before that, he gained international experience in the telecommunications sector (Telecom Argentina) and in the semiconductor sector (AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ).

Bourcereau is a member of the Investment Committee of T-SOURCE, a seed fund capital specialised in the telecommunications sector.

He sits on the boards of ARTERIS (Network-on-Chip Technologies), EKINOPS (OpticalTransmission Sub-systems), MUSIWAVE (Music-Related Services Platform for Wireless Service Providers), POPULAR TELEPHONY (Serverless Communicatons over IP Enabling Technologies) and TAK'ASIC (Semiconductor Solutions for the Printing Industry).

Bourcereau graduated as an engineer from the École Polytechnique and also holds a degree from the École Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.

 

Philippe Geyres

Philippe Geyres is Chief Executive Officer of Oberthur Card Systems.

Before going into Oberthur Card Systems, he was Executive Vice President Home Personal Communication Group, member of the executive committee, at STMicroelectronics, in which capacity he was responsible for Group Products in the areas of telecommunications applications (infrastructure and equipment) and consumer electronics. He was directly responsible for 4000 employees and a turnover of over 2.5 billion euros.

He joined Thomson Semiconducteurs, which became SGS-Thomson and then STMicroelectronics, in 1983. He managed business units and later Group Products. He also spent several years at corporate strategy when he also held direct responsibility for legal matters and public relations.

Geyres started his career with IBM before joining Schlumberger in 1980. He subsequently worked for the subsidiary of the group, Fairchild Semiconductors in the USA.

Geyres graduated from the École Polytechnique of Paris.