Management

Dado Banatao \ Interim President and Chief Executive Officer
Dado Banatao has served as the Company’s Chairman of the board of directors since August 2009, and has served as a managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital, a venture capital firm, since June 2000. From April 2008 to June 2009, Banatao served as executive chairman and interim CEO of SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded company that was acquired by CSR plc in June 2009. From January 1998 to May 2000, Banatao served as a venture partner at Mayfield Fund, a venture capital firm. Banatao founded S3 Incorporated (since renamed SonicBlue Incorporated), a provider of consumer digital entertainment products, where he served as President and CEO from January 1989 until January 1992 and as chairman from January 1992 to December 1997. Banatao also co-founded Chips & Technologies and Mostron. Banatao holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Mapua Institute of Technology and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from Stanford University.

Dennis Bencala \ Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance
Bencala joined Ikanos in June 2010 and is the Company’s CFO and vice president of finance. Bencala most recently served as CFO of the Renewable Energy Test Center from October 2009 to June 2010. From January 2000 to December 2009, Bencala served as corporate controller and then CFO of SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc., a fabless GPS semiconductor company. From September 1995 to December 1999, Bencala served as corporate controller of ScanVision Inc., a fabless image sensor design company. Bencala holds a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from San Diego State University.

Shay Conway \ Vice President, Program Management
Conway comes to Ikanos with more than 15 years of program management and engineering management experience, having worked for Cambridge Silicon Radio, SiRF Technology, Qualcomm, Centillium Communications, LSI Logic and other leading organizations. He has a track record of excellence in executing both semiconductor and software development programs. Conway also has extensive international experience, having held positions in program management, engineering and field application engineering in North America, Europe and Asia. He has an engineering degree from Cork Institute of Technology.

Michael Kelly \ Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Kelly joined Ikanos in July 2010 as the Company’s vice president of worldwide sales, and brings with him more than 30 years of sales experience in the semiconductor and electronics industry. From July 2009 to July 2010, Kelly served as vice president of sales at SiRF, a CSR plc Company. At SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc., prior to the CSR merger, Kelly held a number of sales management positions from 1998 to 2009, including vice president of worldwide sales. From 1996 to 1998, Kelly served as director of OEM sales and director of worldwide distribution sales at Alliance Semiconductor. From 1985 to 1996, Kelly held various sales management roles at NEC Electronics including national sales manager and strategic account manager.

Jim Murphy \ Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources
Murphy joined Ikanos in June 2010 and is responsible for the Company’s strategic vision for global human resources including talent acquisition, employee and organization development, and rewards. Murphy specializes in creating high performing organizations and joined Ikanos from CSR plc where he was vice president, human resources for North America and Asia-Pacific. He joined CSR via its acquisition of SiRF Technology where he was vice president, worldwide human resources. Prior to joining SiRF, Murphy held executive and management human resources positions at LSI, National Semiconductor, and Fairchild Semiconductor. Murphy holds a B.A. from Lawrence University and a M.B.A. in Organization Behavior from the University of Michigan.

Debajyoti Pal \ Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President
A 28-year veteran in the communication and semiconductor industry and a DSL pioneer, Pal has extensive experience identifying and developing new technologies and products. Pal has a proven record of successfully bringing products from concept phase through product delivery. Prior to joining Ikanos, Pal spent over five years at Tallwood Venture Capital in a variety of roles including chief technology officer and executive in residence. Prior to joining Tallwood, Pal founded Telicos Corporation. Before Telicos, Pal founded Excess Bandwidth Corporation, an xDSL physical layer chipset company that was acquired by Virata Corporation. At Virata, Pal was responsible for xDSL physical layer technology and IC product development. Before Excess Bandwidth, Pal held key senior technical and technical management positions at Amati Communications (acquired by Texas Instruments) which pioneered DMT- based ADSL and VDSL technologies. Prior to Amati, Pal held senior technical positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Intel Corporation, where he was on the design team of the world famous 80286-microprocessor.

Pal has made seminal contributions to electrical engineering and applied mathematics. 1n 1982 he introduced the concept and theory of Balanced Stochastic Realizations that advanced the field of control theory. And in 1990, Pal developed the first solution to the long-standing open problem of finding a fast (O (n2)) algorithm for factorization of a Toeplitz matrix with an arbitrary rank profile. Pal holds seven U.S. patents, has published more than 30 technical papers, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. Pal is a Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

Pal received a B.Tech. (Hons.) Degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India; a M.S.E.E. degree from Washington State University; and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, under the guidance of Professor Thomas Kailath, renowned for his influence on many areas of electrical engineering and applied mathematics. In addition, Pal holds an elected position as a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs).

Syrus Ziai \ Vice President, Worldwide Engineering
Ziai is responsible for the Company’s engineering activity including VLSI, hardware, and software and firmware development. Ziai has over 22 years of research and product development experience in the semiconductor and venture capital industries. Prior to joining Ikanos, Ziai was entrepreneur in residence at Tallwood Venture Capital. Prior to Tallwood, Ziai was CEO at Qspeed Semiconductor and CEO at Collinear Corporation. He was also VLSI design manager at Hewlett Packard from 1988 to 2000. Ziai received his B.S.E.E. from Rice University and M.S.E.E. from Stanford University.