Hiro Kozato, Chief Executive Officer

Hiro Kozato founded Techwell and has served as the CEO since inception in 1997. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Kozato was President of Sigmax, a start-up company based in Silicon Valley developing CD-ROM controller chips. Sigmax was sold to Adaptec in 1996. From 1987 to 1994, Mr. Kozato was the Business Controller for Ricoh, a large Japanese electronics conglomerate, where he was responsible for Ricoh's US semiconductor business. Mr. Kozato started his career at Tomen, a large Japanese trading company. Mr. Kozato holds a B.S. in Mathematics from UC Santa Barbara. 

Rick Kimball

Rick, a Founding General Partner of TCV, has been a venture capitalist and technology investor for over twenty years. Rick has led or co-led TCV investments in Allbusiness.com (sold to NBCi), Alteon WebSystems (sold to Nortel), Clarus Corporation, Copper Mountain Networks, CosmoCom, Egenera, INFOnxx, LHS Group (sold to Sema Group), Liquidnet, RiskMetrics, Saville Systems (sold to ADC Telecommunications), Solect Technology Group (sold to Amdocs), Techwell, Vastera, XIOtech (sold to Seagate) and Xylan (sold to Alcatel), among others.  Preceding TCV, Rick was a Managing Director at Montgomery Securities, where he spent over 10 years focusing on telecommunications and data communications as both a venture capitalist and senior equity research analyst. As a senior securities analyst, he played a pivotal role in identifying, sourcing and executing several preeminent initial public offerings, including StrataCom, Chipcom and FORE Systems. Rick's research received number one Institutional rankings from Greenwich Associates and "Home Run Hitter" accolades from Institutional Investor Magazine for his timely buy call on StrataCom, the top-performing growth stock of 1994. Rick graduated Cum Laude from Dartmouth College with an A.B. degree in History and received his M.B.A. with an emphasis in finance from the University of Chicago. He is currently on the Board of Directors of several private companies. Rick also serves as a Trustee for Schools of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco, California. 

Robert Cochran 

Mr. Cochran serves as primary, outside corporate and securities counsel for emerging growth corporations in high-technology areas, and as transactional securities counsel to venture capital funds. His highly transactional practice emphasizes venture capital financing, equity compensation planning, mergers and acquisitions, and structuring major contracts and securities issuances to prepare for prospective firmly underwritten initial public offerings ("IPO"). Over his career of approximately 20 years, Mr. Cochran has guided start-up corporate clients in securing a cumulative aggregate of over US$1,000,000,000 in private equity financing. Prior start-up clients that have achieved major liquidity events in the past few years include, among others: Oplink Communications, Inc. (IPO, NASDAQ, OPLK); Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. (IPO, AFOP); PC-Tel, Inc. (IPO, PCTI); Newave Semiconductor Corp. (sold to IDTI); Internet Image, Inc. (sold to ITRA); Stream Machine (sold to CRUS); Printroom.com (sold to LEXR); Impala Linear Corporation (sold to FSC). Mr. Cochran holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A.(Economics) Harvard College.

Dr. CJ Koomen 

CJ Koomen co-founded Securealink in 2000, which was acquired by SafeNet in 2002. Since then, he has been an entrepreneur, advisor, board member, chairman and interim CEO for many start-up initiatives. Before founding Securealink, Koomen held several high-level positions at large, multinational corporations such as President and CEO of the Philips Digital Video Group, President of Philips Semiconductors North America, Executive Vice President of Philips Semiconductors, and President of the Communications & Multimedia Business Group. Koomen has also been employed as a systems engineer at Philips Telecommunications Systems, a CAD and software manager at Philips Corporate Product Development, General Manager of an IC Design group at Philips Research, and CTO at Philips Communications Systems.  He started his career as a radio frequency engineer at RVO/TNO in The Hague and was also a research engineer at Philips Research in Eindhoven in the areas of telecommunications and computer science. Koomen holds an MS and holds an award winning PhD from Delft University in The Netherlands. He was also a part time professor at Eindhoven University of Technology.

Phillip J. Salsbury, Ph.D.

Dr. Phillip J. Salsbury is a veteran of the semiconductor industry with over thirty-five years of technical and management experience. Dr. Salsbury is the founder, CTO, and later president and CEO of SEEQ Technology, a non-volatile memory and Ethernet IC company (acquired in 1999 by LSI Logic). Prior to SEEQ, Dr. Salsbury held various technical and management positions at Intel and Fairchild R&D. He was actively involved in non-volatile memory development during the 70’s and 80’s at both Intel and SEEQ. He is currently a member of IDL Partners, an IP development and licensing company, and also serves as independent management consultant with focus on operations, strategic alliances, corporate planning and general management. He holds degrees of BSEE from University of Michigan, and MS and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Justine Lien 

Justine Lien joined the Techwell Board of Directors in 2006. Ms. Lien served as Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance, Treasurer, and Secretary of Integrated Circuit Systems, Inc. after the Company's recapitalization on May 11, 1999 and served in these capacities through September 2005 when Integrated Circuit Systems, Inc. merged with Integrated Device Technologies, Inc. She joined ICS in 1993 holding titles including Director of Finance and Administration and Assistant Treasurer. Prior to joining ICS, Ms. Lien was employed by Smith Industries in various financial capacities. Ms. Lien holds a B.A. degree in Accounting from Immaculata College and is a Certified Management Accountant. She currently consults for companies in a financial capacity.