President Lin started his career being as application engineer in United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) while UMC was an IDM with its own chip products, he experienced engineering, product planning, sales, and marketing jobs with various product lines in UMC. In 1995, after four years working on CPU chip product line as business director, he was transferred to UMC-Europe branch office to be its GM when UMC reshaped to do wafer foundry service, he lead UMC-Europe to migrate itself from selling IDM products to selling wafer foundry service. In 1998, after 14 years working in UMC, President Lin switched job to work in Faraday Technology Corporation (Faraday), he lead ASIC business development as starting, then on-and-off leading ASIC implementation, chip backend service, IP business development, industry relationship development (IR), as well as Faraday's spokesperson, in 2004, he started to lead the CPU project spin off operation of Faraday. President Lin became co-founder of Andes Technology Corporation (Andes) in 2005 when it was found up, he formally took position to be Andes' President since 2006.

President Lin received BSEE degree of Electrophysics from the National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, and MSEE degree of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Portland State University, Oregon, USA. Under his management, Andes has been recognized as one of leading suppliers of embedded CPU IP in semiconductor industry. Andes also won the reputation of leading technology company with awards such like 2012 EE Times worldwide Silicon 60 Hot Startups to Watch, 2015 the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific award, etc. In 2015, President Lin received accolade award of Outstanding Technology Management Performance, Taiwan, for his contribution to the high-tech industry.

Samir Patel is the CEO of Sankalp Semiconductor and has played a key role in setting up Sankalp’s global operations in North America and Europe. Samir has had a successful stint spanning 16 years at Rambus where his last held position was that of Sr. VP - Engineering. He has also held senior positions at Sun Microsystems, Catalyst and National Semiconductor. Samir Patel holds a B.Tech degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai and an MS degree from The University of California, Santa Barbara. He is credited with executive courses from Stanford University.

Sunil developed microcontrollers, microprocessors, graphics, media and supercomputing processors for over 30 years at Intel, and holds 16 microprocessor design patents. Notable projects that he worked on or led include the Intel Pentium™ 4 generation of microprocessors, highly integrated multi-core Intel Xeon™ microprocessors for datacenter and enterprise servers and massively parallel Intel Xeon Phi™ microprocessors. Sunil led silicon development teams across the world, bringing products successfully to market. He also drove collaboration with major EDA vendors to improve development productivity. He was appointed a Corporate Vice President in 2010. Sunil has a MSCE from Syracuse University, a MBA from University of Oregon and has done extensive, recent graduate study in Computer Science.

Mukund Pai is the SOC Power Lead at Intel Corp. working on next generation server architectures and optimizing them for Performance and Power. Mukund's passion is to solve difficult technical challenges through teamwork and collaboration. He is driving and participating in several Innovation Initiatives in the area of IP-SOC Ecosystem Management. Previously, Mukund was a Sr. Program Manager, PMO dealing with IP Quality, Delivery and Traceability. He has written or presented technical papers on IP fingerprinting and IP-SoC Management Systems. Mukund has worked on CPU Design, Register File Architectures, Timing, Signal Integrity and Layout Verification. He is an ECE Adjunct Faculty at Portland State University in the coming Winter term. Mukund enjoys travel, music and sports in his free time. Mukund has an MSEE from Arizona State University.

Michael Wishart is chief executive officer and co-founder of Efabless Corporation, the world’s first marketplace and platform for crowd-sourced ICs, IP and related electronics. Efabless applies collective community expertise and creativity to simplify the process of developing electronics for smart hardware. Mike is on the board of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, and is a venture partner at Tyche Partners, a venture capital firm focused on hardware-related companies.

Mike retired from Goldman, Sachs & Co. in June 2011. Michael was elected a partner of the Firm in 2000 and retired as an advisory director and chairman of Goldman’s global technology group. Mike previously worked in the investment banking divisions at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. and Lehman Brothers, including as head of Lehman’s global technology group.

Mike graduated magna cum laude from St. Lawrence University in 1978 with a B.S. degree with honors in mathematics. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar at, and received his M.B.A. from, the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in 1982.