Kianoosh Naghshineh

Who is Kianoosh Naghshineh?

Kianoosh Naghshineh brings more than 20 years of

engineering and management experience in systems and networking to his

role as CEO and president of Chelsio Communications. Before founding

Chelsio, Kianoosh was CEO and president of ASIC Designers, Inc., an

intellectual property firm providing silicon cores for

communications-systems markets. Prior to that, Kianoosh was one of the

primary architects of the Origin supercomputer at Silicon Graphics.

Prior to SGI, Kianoosh held a variety of product engineering and analog

and digital circuit design positions in fiber distributed data

interface (FDDI) networking design (bipolar/cmos) at Advanced Micro

Devices (AMD).

Kianoosh holds a B.S.E.E. from

Cornell University and an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University. He

currently holds 10 patents in analog and digital circuit design,

computer architecture, networking and host interfaces.