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About - Advisory Board
Chester "Chet" Brown - Intelasys President and CEO
Chet Brown's 30-plus years' experience includes a distinguished tenure with Western Digital where he held key positions in strategic marketing and international operations, formed two new business units, and served as a subsidiary president and CEO. As executive VP at SyQuest Technology, he developed worldwide strategic alliances, channels and sales. Brown earlier served as president and CEO for Prisma Devices, which he founded, and InfoChip Systems. As a founding member of Qlogic, he served as VP of marketing and manufacturing as well as acting COO. Brown also served as president and CEO of ConnectCom Solutions.
Daniel Leckrone - President and CEO of The TPL Group
Dan Leckrone began his career as a trial lawyer, but after several years began his focus on the development and implementation of strategies for the management of the legal affairs of technology-based companies. He became heavily involved in the development and management of multi-national intellectual property asset portfolios, the structuring of multi-national joint ventures for the development and use of technology, and the structuring and management of complex multi-national litigation. Before founding the TPL Group in the late 80's, he served as Vice President-Law of Memorex International, General Counsel Domestic of Memorex Corporation, and a "time-shared" Chief Legal Officer for a host of technology-based start-up companies in Silicon Valley.
Charles H. "Chuck" Moore - CTO of The TPL Group
Chuck Moore co-founded Forth Inc. in 1971. He developed a Forth-based chip (RTX2000) in the mid 1980s, derivatives of which are still being used widely by NASA. At Computer Cowboys, Mr. Moore designed the Sh-Boom microprocessor, and then co-founded iTV, an Internet Appliance manufacturer. During the 1990s, he used his own CAD software to design several custom VLSI chips, including the F21 processor with a network interface. More recently, he invented ColorForth and ported his VLSI design tools to it. Moore currently serves as CTO for both Intelasys and its parent company, the TPL Group.
Yu-Ping "Y.P." Cheng - VP of System Architecture (Cupertino, CA)
Y.P. Cheng began his high-tech career with IBM over 30 years ago as a firmware specialist in mainframe disk drive and controller devices. Since then he has logged extensive experience working with computer storage and networking technologies, and holds a number of patents in both areas. At Adaptec, he worked on various SCSI disk drive controllers and at Auspex he focused on the software development for of NFS file servers. Cheng founded AdvanSys, a SCSI controller chip company, and was both VP pf Engineering and CTO. He was also Chief Scientist at both Maranti Networks and Matisse Networks where he defined the initial products for both companies.
Dr. Nick Tredennick - Editor of the Gilder Technology Report
Dr. Nick Tredennick is an advisor and investor in numerous pre-IPO startups and is a member of technical advisory board for the TPL Group as well as other high-tech companies including OpenReach, Impinj, QuickSilver Technology, QuickFlex, and the Venture X Group. He serves as editor of the Gilder Technology Report. and is on the editorial advisory board for several technical publications including IEEE Spectrum, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Embedded Developers Journal, and Microprocessor Report. Dr. Tredennick was named a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to microprocessor design. He has over 30 years' experience in computer and microprocessor design, holds nine patents, and has more than fifty technical publications, including a textbook on microprocessor design (Microprocessor Logic Design).
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