Board of Directors

Dado Banatao is the 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.

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.

Gulett is president and chief executive officer of Ikanos.  He joins the company with over 30 years of semiconductor and communications industry experience. For the past 14 years, Gulett has been the president, CEO or COO of a number of publicly traded and privately held companies including Tzero Technologies, ARC International, Siliquent Technologies (acquired by Broadcom in 2005), Virata Corporation, Paradigm Technology and others. He has also held a range of engineering, operations and business management positions at VLSI Technology, California Devices, NCR Microelectronics and Intel Corporation. Gulett has served on the Ikanos board of directors since August 2003. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Dayton.

Paul Hansen joined the Ikanos board of directors in August of 2004 bringing over 20 years of public company experience to the team. From July 1998 to April 2001 he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial officer of TIBCO Software. There Hansen grew the revenue from $34 million to over $300 million. Hansen previously held several positions at Adaptec, Inc. including corporate vice president of finance and chief financial officer. At Adaptec, Hansen helped achieve more than 50 consecutive quarters of profitability with revenue run rate in excess of $1 billion. Prior to his tenure at Adaptec, Inc., Hansen held the position of assistant controller of U.S. operations at Raychem Corporation. He has also worked for KPMG and has served on the board of directors of iMediation.

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.

Pavlov is a General Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital and brings broad experience in venture capital, private equity, operations and technology. Prior to joining Tallwood, Pavlov was CEO of eTime Capital and a General Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Mayfield, a venture capital fund. Before Mayfield, Pavlov was the Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of Blum Capital Partners and he held several financial and sales management positions at NeXT Computer. In additional to Ikanos, Pavlov serves on the boards of directors of Abound Logic, Alphion Corp., Amulaire Thermal Technology, Astute Networks, Audience Inc., Calypto Design Systems, Crossing Automation Inc., Ozmo Devices, Quintic Corporation and SVTC. Pavlov holds a B.S. in Accounting from Boston College.