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Develops and manufactures semiconductor memory technologies.
Year Established: | 2006 |
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Address: | Fremont, CA 94538 |
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Mail: | info@Avalanche-Technology.com |
Company URL: | http://www.avalanche-technology.com |
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Bessemer Venture Partners
Petro Estakhri, President & CEO: Petro Estakhri co-founded and has served as Chief Executive Officer for Avalanche Technology since August 2006. Prior Mr. Estakhri served as the Chief Technology Officer of Lexar Media, Inc. which he founded in 1996. Lexar Media is a pioneer in flash memory technology for the digital photography, consumer electronics, and communications markets and grew from a private start-up to the 55th largest company in Silicon Valley prior to its acquisition by Micron Technology, Inc. in June 2006. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Estakhri served as the Senior Director of Mass Storage Controller Engineering at Cirrus Logic, Inc., a supplier of semiconductors for Internet entertainment electronics, where he developed one of Cirrus Logic's primary micro-controllers and co-founded the mass storage memory group. Mr. Estakhri also worked at IBM and National Semiconductor. Mr. Estakhri has served as a member of a number of boards, including Lexar Media's as well as Silicon Stor, a company that Mr. Estakhri co-founded in 2002. Mr. Estakhri is a co-author of over 95 patents related to magnetic media, flash storage controller and systems architecture. Mr. Estakhri holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Davis.
Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, Chairman & CTO:Rajiv Ranjan co-founded and has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer at Avalanche Technology since August 2006. Prior, Dr. Ranjan served as the Executive Director of R&D at Seagate where he led the technology development which fueled a doubling of revenue to over $10B. His technology pioneering efforts have led to the productization of low-noise media, perpendicular media and laser texturing. These technologies are now widely used in devices which revolutionized the data storage industry. Dr. Ranjan was recognized by both the United States Congress and the Prime Minister of India for his outstanding research in the field of magnetic recording, where he holds over 75 patents. Prior, he directed Komag's R&D team, which under his direction pioneered the granular and oriented media technology, enabling revenue grow to over $600M. Dr. Ranjan received his PhD. in Material Science and Engineering from Iowa State University on a full United States Department of Energy scholarship. He received the prestigious SIMS-86 award from the Instrument Society of America for his design of a transducer for magneto-acoustic detection. Rajiv graduated from the India Institute of Technology, Kharagpur as a Silver medalist in the field of Metallurgical Engineering. He has published over 60 papers in the magnetic recording field and has lectured at UC Berkeley, Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University on magnetic recording technologies.
Eric S. Whitaker, Exec. Vice President & General Counsel: Eric S. Whitaker has served as Avalanche's Executive Vice President, Business Development and General Counsel since October 2007. Prior to Avalanche, Mr. Whitaker was Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Lexar Media, Inc. In that role, Mr. Whitaker was responsible for Lexar Media's long range planning and business strategy development as well as overseeing legal affairs as general counsel and secretary. Mr. Whitaker executed strategic agreements with virtually every major semiconductor company and developed a long term strategy to protect and monetize Lexar's fundamental intellectual property. Prior to Lexar Media, Mr. Whitaker was an attorney with Latham & Watkins, specializing in intellectual property and antitrust litigation. He was a Fellow for the Coro Foundation which provides intensive training in public policy and urban politics. He served as a legislative assistant for U.S. Senator Warren Rudman, acting as primary contact on all legal and tax issues. Mr. Whitaker graduated cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Politics and earned a J.D. from the Stanford School of Law, Stanford University.