Board of Directors
Barry Cox — Executive Chairman
Barry Cox has served as chairman of the board of directors of BrightScale since October 2005. Mr. Cox has 40 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He also serves as the chairman of the board of directors of Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd., a publicly traded semiconductor capital equipment company, and is a member of the board of directors of privately held Summit MicroElectronics and Softier. He was an active member of management and chairman of the board of directors of Quantum Effect Devices, Inc. (QEDI), a fabless semiconductor company, from July 1998 until August 2000. QEDI held its initial public offering in January 2000 and was acquired by PMC-Sierra (PMCS) in August 2000. Mr Cox began his semiconductor career at Texas Instruments in 1969. He joined Intel in 1975, where he served in various capacities, most recently as president of Intel Europe. Mr. Cox holds a BS degree in engineering from the US Air Force Academy and an MBA from Boston University.
Dave Corbin — President & CEO
Dave Corbin joined BrightScale in May 2006. He has over 28 years of experience in Silicon Valley high technology companies. Before joining BrightScale, he was CEO of Cooligy, an advanced cooling technology company (now Emerson Electric), interim CEO of Kovio, Inc., a nanotechnology company, CEO of Silicon Light Machines, a MEMS display company (now Cypress Semiconductor), director of marketing at MIPS Computers (now MIPS Technologies), and held various engineering management positions at Intel Corporation. He has been a technical and business consultant to several venture capital companies. He holds a master of science degree in electrical engineering and is a named inventor on seven patents.
William Frezza — Director
William Frezza joined Adams Capital Management in 1997 as a general partner. He is responsible for identifying, leading and managing investments in his area of domain expertise. Prior to his work at Adams Capital, he was founder and president of Wireless Computing Associates, providing technology strategy and consulting services to major vendors in the telecommunications industry. He served as the director of marketing and business development for Ericsson, Inc.’s wireless data division, and has extensive engineering and product management experience from General Instrument Corp. and Bell Laboratories. He has also been involved in several start-up ventures, was a columnist for Internet Week, and holds seven patents.
Michio Fujimura — Director
Michio is a co-founder and Managing Director of ATA Ventures. For 15 years, Michio owned and operated Vanguard Systems Consulting (VSC), a sole proprietorship established to leverage his wide IT industry experience. VSC built a strong reputation in Silicon Valley that specialized in the areas of international business development and business operations consulting (product planning, product marketing and manufacturing) for U.S. start-up companies.
Prior to VSC, Michio was a member of the charter team of David Systems, a pioneer in packet data networking systems. Prior to David Systems, Michio held product marketing, planning and management roles at Olivetti Corporation in the areas of networking and telecom. He graduated from Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan in 1967 with a Bachelor’s degree in law.
Joe Raffa — Director
Joe Raffa has served in key executive and management roles in the semiconductor and computer industries for the past 20 years. Most recently he served as CEO of NuCORE Technology, a fabless semiconductor company developing embedded image processing chips and software for digital video and still cameras. He successfully led the company from development stage to revenue stage, closing key design wins in Japan and enabling Panasonic and JVC to ship top-rated digital cameras equipped with NuCORE chips. Mr. Raffa raised $30 million in financing and grew the company from 6 to 55 employees in Sunnyvale and Japan.
Prior to NuCORE, Mr. Raffa served as vice president and general manager of the design implementation business unit at Synopsys, the largest supplier of design tools to the semiconductor industry. In that role, he grew the division’s revenue from $55 million to $100 million while exceeding profitability goals.
Prior to Synopsys, Mr. Raffa spent 11 years at Hewlett-Packard, most recently as general manager of the microprocessor OEM business unit. In that role he was responsible for licensing core microprocessor and system software technologies targeted to computer and embedded systems. Prior to this, he served as director of product marketing for HP’s RISC Workstation product line.
Mr. Raffa received a BS in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He lives with his wife and two children in Silicon Valley.