Board of Directors
Dr. Georges Karam

Dr. Georges Karam

Chairman

…has served as our chairman of the board and chief executive officer since the company was founded in 2003. Before founding Sequans, Dr. Karam was vice president of cable access at Juniper Networks, running the cable engineering and marketing departments and managing the cable sales launch in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. He joined Juniper Networks when the company acquired Pacific Broadband Communications (PBC), where he was vice president of engineering and general manager for Europe. Dr. Karam has served in a variety of senior management positions at Alcatel, SAGEM and Philips. He is a senior member of IEEE, has authored numerous technical and scientific papers and holds several patents in digital communications. Dr. Karam holds a PhD in signal processing and communication theory from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris.

Dr. Sailesh Chittipeddi

Dr. Sailesh Chittipeddi

Director

Dr. Sailesh Chittipeddi became Executive Vice President and General Manager of IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit of Renesas in July 2019. He joined Renesas in March 2019. Before joining Renesas, he served IDT’s Executive Vice President of Global Operations and CTO, with an additional focus on corporate growth and differentiation. In this role he is responsible for the company’s operations, procurement, quality, supply chain, foundry engineering, assembly engineering, product & test engineering, facilities, Design Automation, and Information Technology groups. From a product line perspective, he has responsibility for the IoT Systems Group, RapidWave Interconnect Systems, PCIe and Standard Products Group. Additionally, Dr. Chittipeddi helps IDT leverage its existing strengths to increase corporate value while driving the rapid delivery of new products. Prior to joining IDT, Dr. Chittipeddi was President and CEO of Conexant Systems and served on its Board of Directors. He led the company in its transition from a public company to private ownership and through its debt restructuring efforts. Before that, he held several executive roles at Conexant Systems, including COO, co-President, EVP for Operations and Chief Technical Officer, with responsibility for global engineering, product development, operations, quality, facilities, IT and associated infrastructure support. Dr. Chittipeddi started his career in technology with AT&T Bell Labs and progressively managed larger engineering and operations groups with AT&T Microelectronics/Lucent and Agere Systems. Dr. Chittipeddi serves on the Board of Directors for Avalanche Technology (USA) and Tessolve (Division of Hero Electronix, India). He also serves as a Board Observer in Blu Wireless Technology (Bristol, UK), Peraso Technologies (Canada) and Anagog (Israel). Dr. Chittipeddi holds five degrees, including an M.B.A from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in physics from The Ohio State University. Dr. Chittipeddi has earned 64 U.S. patents related to semiconductor process, package and design, and has had nearly 40 technical articles published.

Wes Cummins

Wes Cummins

Director

…currently serves as the CEO and Chairman of Applied Blockchain (OTC: APLD) and is one of the company’s cofounders. Mr. Cummins was also the founder and CEO of 272 Capital LP, a registered investment advisor, which focused primarily on investing in technology hardware, software and services companies. Wes sold 272 Capital LP to B. Riley Financial (Nasdaq: RILY). Following the sale he joined B. Riley as President of B. Riley Asset Management, the institutional asset management arm of B. Riley. Wes has been a technology investor for over 20 years and held various positions in capital markets including positions at investment banks and institutional asset management firms. Prior to founding 272 Capital, Wes led technology investing at Nokomis Capital, L.L.C., an investment advisory firm. Mr. Cummins also serves as a member of the board of Vishay Precision Group (NYSE: VPG) an internationally recognized designer, manufacturer and marketer of resistive foil technology, sensors, and sensor-based systems to niche, industrial applications. Wes holds a BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis where he majored in finance and accounting.

Yves Maitre

Yves Maitre

Director

…has served as a director since June 2014. Mr. Maitre is currently CEO of Able France, a consulting firm. From October 2019 until September 2020, Mr. Maitre was Chief Executive Officer of HTC Corporation. Until September 2019, Mr. Maitre served as Executive VP for Connected Objects and Partnerships at Orange Corporate where he was responsible for managing Orange’s relationships with global device makers as well as partnering with ecosystem players from chipset upwards to internet companies. Prior to joining Orange, Mr. Maitre spent six years working for the consumer electronics company Thomson. He was President of Key MRO America, a subsidiary of Thomson United States and whilst living in Singapore he worked for Thomson Asia as Director of Manufacturing Supply Chain and Product Management. Before Thomson, Mr. Maitre spent five years as the COO of Quante-Pouyet, a subsidiary of 3M, making connectors for the telecoms business. He is also a board member of Orange China and several midsize / start-up companies. Mr. Maitre is an Engineering graduate in Nuclear Physics from Polytech Grenoble (France).

Maria Marced

Maria Marced

Director

Marced is currently president of TSMC Europe where she is responsible for driving the development and strategy of TSMC’s business in Europe. Before joining TSMC, Marced was senior vice president of sales and marketing at NXP/Philips Semiconductors where she also served as GM of Philips’ Connected Multimedia Solutions Business Unit, overseeing Philips’ semiconductor solutions for connected consumer applications. Earlier, Marced spent more than 19 years at Intel, rising to the position of vice president and GM for Intel’s Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Marced serves as chairwoman of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) EMEA leadership council, an organization dedicated to the advancement of the worldwide semiconductor industry.

Dr. Richard N. Nottenburg

Dr. Richard N. Nottenburg

Director

…has served as a director since June 2016. He is currently an Executive Partner at OceanSound Partners LP, a private equity firm, and an investor in various early stage technology companies. Previously, Dr. Nottenburg served as president, chief executive officer, and member of the board of directors of Sonus Networks, Inc. from 2008 through 2010. From 2004 until 2008, Dr. Nottenburg was an officer with Motorola, Inc., ultimately serving as its executive vice president, chief strategy officer and chief technology officer. He served on the boards of Aeroflex Corporation from 2010 until 2014, PMC Sierra, where he was a member of the audit committee, from 2011 until 2016 and Violin Memory where he served as Chairman from 2014 until 2017. Dr. Nottenburg is currently a member of the board of directors of Verint Systems Inc., where he is chairman of the compensation committee. He previously served on the boards of directors of PMC-Sierra Inc., Aeroflex Holding Corp., Anaren, Inc., Comverse Technology, Inc. and Violin Memory, Inc. Dr. Nottenburg has a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from New York University, an MSEE in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique Federal Lausanne.

Hubert de Pesquidoux

Hubert de Pesquidoux

Director

…has served as a director since March 2011. Mr. de Pesquidoux is an Executive Partner at Siris Capital, a private equity firm focused on making control investments in data/telecom, technology and technology-enabled business service companies in North America. From 1991 until December 2009, Mr. de Pesquidoux held various positions at the telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent SA (and its predecessor, Alcatel S.A. and its affiliates), where he most recently served as Chief Financial Officer from November 2007 until December 2008 and as President of the Enterprise business from November 2006 until December 2008. Mr. de Pesquidoux was also previously a member of the Alcatel Executive Committee and held various executive positions including President and Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel North America, Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel Canada (formerly NewbridgeNetworks) and Chief Financial Officer of Alcatel USA. Mr. de Pesquidoux also served as the Chairman of the Board of Tekelec and currently serves as a director and audit committee chair of Criteo S.A., as executive chairman of Mavenir Systems, Inc. Mr. de Pesquidoux holds a Master in Law from University of Nancy II, a Master in Economics and Finance from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, a DESS in International Affairs from University of Paris Dauphine and was a laureate in the “Concours Général de Droit”.

Dominique Pitteloud

Dominique Pitteloud

Director

…has served as a director since January 2005. Mr. Pitteloud is a co-founder and managing partner at Climb Ventures in Geneva since 2020. He was managing partner with Ginko Ventures from 2015 to 2020, partner with Endeavour Vision from 2007 to 2015, and principal at Vision Capital from 2001 to 2007. Mr. Pitteloud is also an advisor to ASSIA, a provider of DSL management solutions and serves or has served as a director of number of private companies. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Mr. Pitteloud was vice president of marketing at 8×8, a Silicon Valley semiconductor and telecommunication company, which he joined in 1999 as part of the acquisition of Odisei, a VoIP start-up from Sophia Antipolis, France. At Odisei, Mr. Pitteloud led the development of the company’s business and financing activities. Prior to Odisei, Mr. Pitteloud held various engineering and management positions at Logitech, including Vice President of the scanner and video camera business units. Mr. Pitteloud received a BS in electrical engineering and telecommunications from the School of Business and Engineering in Vaud, Switzerland and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Zvi Slonimsky

Zvi Slonimsky

Director

…has served as a director since November 2006. Since 2005, Mr. Slonimsky has been chairman of the board of several Israeli high tech companies, currently including several private companies as well as Awear, Maradin and Surf, and previously Alvarion, Extricom, Pentalum and Teledata. He served as CEO of Alvarion Ltd. from 2001 to October 2005, following Alvarion’s establishment via merger of BreezeCOM and Floware in August 2001. Prior to the merger, Mr. Slonimsky was CEO of BreezeCom. Before that, he served as president and CEO of MTS Ltd. and was general manager of DSP Group, Israel. Earlier in his career, he held senior positions at several Israeli telecom companies, including C.Mer and Tadiran. Mr. Slonimsky holds a BSEE and a MSEE from the Technion Israel Institute for Technology and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University.