NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Rob Johnson, Chairman
Rob is currently a visiting professor in the Entrepreneurship Department of the IESE Business School of the University of Navarra. From 1990 he was on the faculty of London Business School for 10 years, where he designed and taught an entrepreneurial finance course and founded the European Business Plan of the Year Competition. He has served as a director, and in several cases as chairman, of many private companies and has been actively involved in those companies from early financings through to successful trade sales and IPOs. Rob is a venture partner with Delta Partners in Dublin, Ireland, and serves on the advisory board of Palamon Capital Partners in London.
Dr. Tony Curzon-Price
Tony is currently the executive director of opendemocracy.net. He founded Arithmatica in 1998 and served as its CEO until May 2007. Previously a consultant economist for more than 10 years, Tony served as an analyst with London Economics, an energy economist with Environmental Resource Management, an economist with Lexecon, where he worked on legal and regulatory analysis for utilities, and an econometric modeler on energy projects for Economic Consulting Associates. He was managing director of ELSECo, the specialist game theory consultancy that designed the influential UK 3G license auction. He has lectured on economics and energy policy to post-graduates at Imperial College, London, and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Sergio Levi
Sergio is a director on the ICT team at Quester, part of the NewMedia SPARK group, specializing in the semiconductor and electronics sector. He has more than 15 years of hands-on operational experience in the semiconductor industry, and brings to Quester a deep understanding of commercializing technology in complex value chains and in exploiting technology transitions to create market value. Prior to joining Quester, Sergio spent six years as vice president, Europe, Middle East and Africa at ON Semiconductor, a spin-off from the former Motorola Semiconductor Group. Prior to ON Semiconductor, Sergio had a 12-year career at Texas Instruments, where he ran the company’s sales and marketing group in the Southern Europe region.
Jeremy Milne
Jeremy has extensive experience in financing small- and mid-cap companies in the UK and the US. Jeremy joined Albany Capital Plc in September 2007 after serving as a director of Quester Capital Management Ltd., a leading European venture capital investor, where he was responsible for investments in digital media, business services, business software, electronics and telecommunications. He has made investments in private companies and listed companies in the UK and the US, and has been involved in numerous funding rounds, restructurings, trade exits, listings and recruitment of senior management. Jeremy is a qualified chartered accountant, having trained with Coopers and Lybrand, and possesses an MSc in biological sciences from Edinburgh University.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Dan Ganousis, CEO
With more than 30 years of experience, Dan assumed the CEO position at Arithmatica in May 2007. Dan previously was the CEO of AccelChip, an EDA startup that produced the first synthesis tool of the MATLAB language for automatically mapping DSP algorithms into FPGAs. AccelChip was acquired by Xilinx in January of 2006. Dan also held executive positions at EDA startups Innoveda (Viewlogic) and VeriBest (Intergraph Electronics). Dan began his EDA career at Mentor Graphics where he established and directed the company's ASIC design and consulting services business.
An IC design engineer by trade, the first 15 years of his career Dan worked on microprocessor and ASIC designs at Zilog, NCR Microelectronics, Digital Equipment Corporation and Solbourne Computer. Dan holds a BSEE degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
