Memoir is currently led by Adam Kablanian (CEO); and was cofounded by Sundar Iyer (CTO) and Da Chuang (COO) in Mar '09. Our management team has a background both in Academia and Industry, and Memoir's core team has over 100 years of combined experience in building hardware, memory circuits and memory sub-systems.

In his past experience, Adam Kablanian (BA Berkeley '83, MS SCU '91, EMBA Stanford '06) was co-founder (since '96), chairman (until Mar '08), and CEO (until Mar '07) of Virage Logic; a company building embedded memories, which he subsequently took public. Later, Adam was cofounder and CEO of iCON Communications, a premier broadband ISP in Armenia, which he successfully sold in '09. Adam has also served on numerous boards in the EDA Industry (Sequence Design) and Application SW (IconApps) companies.

In his past experience, Sundar Iyer (BS CS '98 IIT Bombay, MS/PhD CS Stanford '00/'08) was cofounder and CTO of Nemo Systems (a provider of high performance network memory), which was acquired by Cisco in Sep '05. Prior to that he was a founding member and senior architect at SwitchOn Networks (a provider of L2-L7 associative memory), which was acquired by PMC-Sierra in Sep '01.

Da Chuang (BS EE '93 Berkeley, MS/PhD EE Stanford '97/'04) was a founding member of Abrizio Systems (a terabit switch fabric company acquired by PMC-Sierra in Aug '99) and has past experience at both Nvidia, Adaptec. From Sep '05 to Dec '08, Sundar and Da, jointly co-led the network memory group at Cisco Systems, where they helped architect and build multiple generations of high performance memory sub-systems for Cisco's Enterprise and Data Center Ethernet products.

We are backed by Lightspeed venture partners and Silicon Valley angels. We are also honored to have Tom Edsall (from Cisco Systems), Prof. Mark Horowitz (from Stanford University) and Prof. George Varghese (from UCSD), on our technical advisory board.