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Hamid Farzaneh, President & CEO
Hamid leads the team at DisplayLink. Previously, Hamid served as Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development for 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 into a dominant chip supplier for the desktop and home digital display market, resulting in a successful IPO.
Dennis Crespo, Executive VP, Marketing & Business Development
Dennis Crespo is DisplayLink's executive vice president of marketing and business development, responsible for spearheading strategic business development and marketing initiatives and alliances.
Dennis was most recently vice president of marketing at Silicon Optix, Inc., where he was responsible for all product and strategic marketing, public relations, branding, and semiconductor roadmaps for television, DVD and home entertainment markets. Dennis holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from Heald Technical Institute.
Michael Ledzion, CFO
Michael is responsible for DisplayLink's finance, business controls and reporting. He ensures that the company always has enough money in the bank to continue to grow the business ever more rapidly. He also gets involved in new business development and other commercial activities within the business.
One of DisplayLink's earliest employees, Michael was previously CEO of Polight (a Data Storage business), and turned down the opportunity to get an MBA from INSEAD to found OfficeShopper and ProSmart (trade sales). A long time ago he graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters in Engineering.
Scott Tandy, Interim COO
Scott’s role at DisplayLink is to work with the current ecosystem partners to accelerate DisplayLink’s entry into new markets and to work with the team to evolve the company’s strategic product roadmap.
Prior to joining DisplayLink, Scott served as Vice President of Marketing and as a corporate officer at PortalPlayer, Inc. a leading supplier of portable multimedia silicon and software solutions, recently acquired by NVIDIA Inc. Scott holds a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY.
Dr. Andrew Fisher, Co-founder and Chief Technologist, Hardware
Andy develops the architecture for DisplayLink's next-generation hardware. Chip design has been part of his life since designing standard cell ASICs during his PhD. This work won him an Esprit prize.
Later, working at Philips Electronics he was part of the team that designed the first fully asynchronous ASIC to go into a consumer product. More recently, his work at AT&T Laboratories Cambridge brought to life a number of "first of a kind" technologies, skills now very useful at DisplayLink.
Tim Glauert, Co-founder and Chief Technologist, Software
Tim makes complex multi-media software that's simple to use.
He studied for his PhD at Cambridge University and then spent eight years at the world-renowned ORL/AT&T Labs. Tim has now been sending pixels across networks for more than 15 years.
Before joining DisplayLink he was CTO at Broadcast technology company IPV.
Adrian van den Heever, VP Strategic Engineering & IP
Adrian uses technology to create products that make a difference to people's lives.
He has been involved in most aspects of high volume electronic design, most recently with PHILIPS Electronics where he held a number of roles including that of Consultant (RF Systems and HVE Product Development and Manufacturing) in an Advanced Development Group and RF Group Manager for a product division. He has also worked in automotive electronics and military communications systems.
Jonathan Jeacocke, VP, Engineering
Jonathan's role at DisplayLink is to take the smart technology ideas in the Company and help the engineering teams turn them into the appropriate silicon and software, so that more people can take advantage of our technology.
Jonathan has worked on a whole range of silicon and other tech products in his career at TI and Virata/Conexant - from multiple DSP image processors to mobile smartphone processors and more.
Bernie Thompson, VP Software Platforms
Bernie is responsible for our Seattle office, a hub both for recruiting talent and for supporting projects with area partners like Microsoft and Intel.
Bernie has enjoyed the cutting-edge of software development for over 15 years. He was previously a Software Development Manager at Microsoft, responsible for the core USB and Bluetooth teams. Prior to that, he founded and sold a small startup and had roles as President of the Linux division at Applix, as the Microsoft engineering liaison for the graphics chip maker S3, and on the OS/2 development team at IBM.
Sue Gibson, Director, HR
Sue works with the executive team to recruit the very best people for DisplayLink - and then build the structures that give each person the opportunity to grow and achieve their full potential.
Sue has worked in the Cambridge area for more than 10 years with a number of the region's best known technology companies. Sue takes an active role in working with other HR Directors on local issues and has also chaired the Cambridge Business Women’s network.