Bernard Xavier
Founder, Board Member @ Sentab
Del Mar, United States
Bernard Xavier is a seasoned technology executive, with over 13 years of specialized radio frequency (RF) and baseband design expertise with companies such as National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Philips, and LSI Logic. Xavier is the founder, CEO and President at Quorum Systems, a San Diego-based start-up developing multi-mode RF devices fornext generation cellular handsets that was acquired by Spreadtrum, a China-based wireless semiconductor company.Prior to launching Quorum, Xavier founded InnoCOMM Wireless, a Formative Ventures portfolio company and fabless semiconductor start-up specializing in wireless access ICs in February 1998, and was responsible for business development, engineering, finance and sales. He generated over $7M of sales for InnoCOMM, and funded some of the company’s operating expenses. During his tenure, Xavier initiated and developed strategic alliances with several large and small companies and negotiated all contracts and business deals, including the Series A and B financing rounds. Xavier grew the InnoCOMM team from its initial three-person team to a total of fifty-eight employees, developing the largest RF IC team outside of Qualcomm in San Diego.Xavier navigated the negotiation of the $130M acquisition of InnoCOMM by National Semiconductor, who outbid several other corporate suitors. Upon acquisition, Xavier assumed the role of Director of Wireless Data at National Semiconductor. In this new role, he managed several satellite design teams in Sweden, Scotland, Santa Clara, Germany and San Diego. The overall headcount with either direct or dotted line responsibility to Xavier was in excess of seventy engineers.Xavier received his PhD in microwave circuits from Brunel University in the UK. He has published some thirty papers in radio frequency IC design and is currently serving on the technical program committee of the MTT-S RFIC conference. He has filed several patents in the area of semiconductor circuits and systems.
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About Sentab
At Sentab, our mission is to help build online communities. We believe that everyone is equally important to our communities, not just those who have the financial or technical wherewithal to be at the forefront of technology. We have therefore set out to empower all people to get involved on a level technical playing field. Whilst ourtechnology is cutting edge, it is the people and connections that are the most important things to us, so we’ve deliberately designed it to be accessible to everyone, so they can all build relationships. Sentab is simply social. Share your moments of happiness. Share your memories.
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