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Alan Duncan, Director
Alan is a Partner with Esprit Capital Partners. He has been in the venture capital industry for more than 20 years, initially through establishing a corporate venturing fund for Ferranti and then with Foreign & Colonial Ventures and Newmarket Venture Capital Fund. He joined Prelude (now Esprit Capital Partners) in 1996 and is responsible for a portfolio of Esprit’s electronics and computer related investments including Phyworks, Xanadu Wireless, Lime Microsystems and DisplayLink Research. His previous investments have included Alphamosaic, NanoMagnetics and nCipher.
Alan has an electronic engineering background and gained his industrial experience in computer systems with Ferranti plc.
Alan is a past member of the European Venture Capital Association High Tech Committee and lectures regularly on EVCA’s venture capital and professional training courses.
Mark Evans, Director
Mark Evans is a General Partner of Benchmark Europe, based in London. Benchmark Europe's portfolio includes semiconductor, software, security, mobile, c-commerce and consumer electronics companies.
Before joining Benchmark, he ran a software start-up and previously held senior management positions at Goldman Sachs in Europe, Asia and the US. Mark holds a BA in Economics from Queen's University in Canada and a Masters in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Hamid Farzaneh, President & CEO
Prior to joining DisplayLink, Hamid Farzaneh served as Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development for San Jose, California-based Silicon Optix Inc.
Before that, he co-founded Motion Sense, a MEMS controller startup in the Bay Area, and also served as Executive Vice President and COO of Genesis Microchip, where his leadership helped transform the company from an engineering-driven, high-cost, niche-market enterprise into a dominant chip supplier for the desktop and home digital display market, resulting in a successful IPO.
Earlier in his career, Hamid was Vice President of marketing and sales at ASAT, and also held marketing and business development positions with National Semiconductor Corp. He holds a Masters of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon, France, and an MBA from Golden State University in San Francisco.
Martin Gibson, Director
Martin Gibson is a Partner in the technology team and joined Atlas Venture in 2000. He focuses on investments in semiconductors, communications and systems.
Martin brings broad technology commercialisation expertise to DisplayLink from his years at Scientific Generics and startups Cellstack and Madge Networks.
He sits on the boards of DisplayLink Technology and Zinwave, and also works closely with Azea Networks, Icera Semiconductor, Orthogon Systems, Phyworks, RadioScape and Xelerated. Martin has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, a BA in Electrical & Information Science from Cambridge University and is also a Chartered Engineer.
Henry Happel, Director
Henry Happel was a founding partner of Mundt MacGregor LLP, a Seattle, Washington law firm, where he practiced corporate and commercial law from 1976 until 2001.
Henry was an advisor to the founders of DisplayLink and served as the CEO of the company in its very early days. Since leaving Mundt MacGregor, Henry has also served as CEO of Advanced Robotic Vehicles, Inc. and the Managing Director of Exbiblio, a recently formed technology information company.
Henry received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1967 and a law degree from Stanford University in 1970.
Martin Jackson, Director
Martin Jackson is Senior Vice President Engineering of Artimi, a fabless semiconductor company developing single chip WiMedia-based complete systems solutions for low power, high bandwidth wireless connectivity based on Ultra Wideband (UWB) technologies.
Martin has over twenty years experience in start-up and high technology companies, having co-founded four start-ups. He was most recently chief technology officer at Frontier Silicon, a fabless semiconductor company which pioneered digital broadcasting and achieved 70% market share.
Previous to Frontier Silicon, Jackson was chief technology officer of leading ADSL semiconductor company GlobespanVirata Inc, which later merged into Conexant Corp.
David Mooring, Director
David Mooring serves as an independent director of venture backed semiconductor companies. Dave’s 25 years of operating experience include president and board member of Rambus, vice president of marketing and sales at Vitesse Semiconductor, as well as almost a decade of various sales and marketing management positions at Intel Corporation. He holds a B.S. degree in Economics from Santa Clara University, an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Martin King, Co-Founder
Martin King is a Seattle-based inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for founding Tegic Communications, through which he commercialised T9, the predictive text messaging software found in hundreds of millions of mobile phones worldwide. Tegic was acquired by AOL Time Warner in 1999 - and it remains a profitable business within AOL Time Warner today.
Martin co-founded DisplayLink, and participated in the company's series A round of financing.
Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Co-Founder
Quentin Stafford-Fraser is a Cambridge technologist and entrepreneur. Quentin is co-inventor of the webcam, of which an estimated 50 million are now in use around the world. He is also co-inventor of VNC, of which over 10 million copies are now in use. He has held posts at world famous research organisations, including University of Cambridge, Xerox EuroPARC, Olivetti Research Ltd, and AT&T Labs, most of which was concerned with moving pixels over networks and user-computer interaction.
Quentin co-founded DisplayLink with Martin King, with the vision of providing the connectivity to enable a new era in digital displays.