Dado Banatao – Executive Chairman
Dado Banatao is the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ikanos Communications and the Managing Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital. With his past experiences as an entrepreneur, Dado provides Tallwood with a unique perspective in technology investments. Tallwood invests in unique and hard-to-do semiconductor technology solutions for computing, communication, and consumer platforms. Dado holds a B.S.E.E., cum laude, from the Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Danial Faizullabhoy
Faizullabhoy has more than 16 years of venture capital investment, management, technical and marketing experience, specializing in the semiconductor and communications industries.   Faizullabhoy is the President and CEO of BroadLogic. He brings breadth and depth of running an early stage semiconductor company through his experience as a vice president general manager at Adaptec and experience as a venture capitalist at Walden International. Faizullabhoy joined Walden International in 1998 as a General Partner. Prior to joining Walden International, Faizullabhoy was vice president and general manager of Adaptec Inc., where he was responsible for strategic planning, marketing, and business development of semiconductor peripheral hard disk, target silicon and firmware solutions. Previously, Faizullabhoy was a design engineer with Production Automation. Portfolio companies where Faizullabhoy is or has been a member of the board of directors include BroadLogic Inc., Scenix Semiconductor, Inc., Morphics, Inc., GooBoo Inc. and other portfolio companies of Walden International. Faizullabhoy received his MBA in finance and marketing from Santa Clara University, California, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, with a Computer Science minor, from Norwich University, Vermont.
Frederick Lax
Lax has a distinguished background with some of the world’s largest telecommunications companies spanning some 30 years with Tekelec, Lucent Technologies, AT&T and Bell Laboratories. With a Masters Degree from MIT in Massachusetts, Lax has significant experience in switch systems technology and development, and has worked at a global level on providing advanced telecommunications solutions and managing growth in over 100 countries including regions as diverse as China, Latin America and the Middle East. Most recently, Lax was CEO and president of Tekelec, a leading developer of next-generation switching and signaling telecommunications network performance management technology, and value-added applications. Lax oversaw Tekelec’s growth strategy as it expanded its telecommunications product portfolio, strengthened its competitive position and successfully expanded its global presence including through the acquisition of several private companies.
R. Douglas Norby
Norby joins the Ikanos board of directors in January 2011 with 25-plus years of financial management and technology-industry experience. Norby’s diverse background includes a successful track record in both early stage and public companies in a range of industries. Norby has been Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at no fewer than seven technology corporations including Fairchild Camera and Instrumentation Corporation, ITEL Corporation, Mentor Graphics Corporation, LSI Logic, Novalux, Inc., Tessera Technologies, Inc., and Zambeel, Inc.

Norby’s experience also spans the entertainment and pharmaceutical sectors. He was President of Lucasfilm, Ltd., and Senior Vice President and CFO for Syntex Corporation.

Norby serves on the board of directors for STATSChipPac, Ltd., MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ltd., Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., NEXX Systems, Inc. and Invensense, Inc. Norby holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

George Pavlov
George Pavlov is a General Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital and has been working with the firm since its founding in 2000. In addition to serving as an operational advisor across all of Tallwood’s business verticals, Pavlov is also responsible for initiating, structuring and managing investments for the firm. Pavlov joined Tallwood from eTime Capital where he served as the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to eTime Capital, he previously served as a General Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Mayfield Fund, a Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Blum Capital Partners, as well as several financial and sales management positions at NeXT Computer. In addition to Ikanos, Pavlov currently serves on the boards of directors of Alphion Corp., Amulaire Thermal Technology, Astute Networks, Audience, Calypto, Crossing Automation, Pixim, Quintic, and SVTC Technologies. Pavlov holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Boston College.
James Smaha
Smaha joins the Ikanos board of directors in April 2010 with over 30 years of semiconductor industry experience. Smaha’s distinguished background includes service as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Semiconductor Group of National Semiconductor Corporation as well as other senior level roles at National Semiconductor; and a variety of senior and executive level positions at Fairchild Semiconductor and Raytheon Semiconductor. Most recently, Smaha served as one of SiRF’s directors from October 2000 to June 2009. Upon retiring in 1989, Smaha served as an independent consultant to S3 and interWAVE Communications International Ltd., a telecommunications company. Smaha holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Maine.