ARTEMIS NETWORKS - Key Persons


Aaron VanDevender

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board
  • CEO / Founder Methid, Former Chief Scientist / Principal Founders Fund

Alexander von Humboldt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board
  • Professor of EE and CS, Technical University of Berlin

Angel Lozano

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board
  • Professor of EE and Vice - Rector for Research, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Cindy Ievers

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • Member of the Artemis Leadership Team
Cindy Ievers, VP Finance for Artemis, has 25 years of experience in corporate finance and administration, managing hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions and operational capital. Cindy has provided leadership and strategic direction for all of the finance and administrative functions for Rearden Companies, Artemis' incubator, for over a decade, as well as developed business plans and financial models for all Rearden incubated companies, and then upon spin out and funding, provided oversight and guidance to the financial teams. Prior to Rearden, Cindy consulted with several startups in a wide range of financial capacities, including financial modeling and analysis, setting up new entity books and reviewing accounting processes and procedures. Cindy led finance teams for several multi-hundred million dollar financial transactions including the IPO of Talarian (later purchased by TIBCO), the sale of iReady Corporation to NVIDIA and the sale of Digital Pathways to Axent Technologies. Cindy holds a bachelor's degree from San Jose State University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Fadi Saibi - CTO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CO - FOUNDER
  • CTO
  • Member of the Artemis Leadership Team
Fadi Saibi, PhD, is Co-founder and CTO at Artemis Networks where he has been leading development of Artemis' pCell technology and its easy-to-deploy, real-time, high-performance computing software-defined radio infrastructure since 2012. Prior to joining Artemis Networks, Dr. Saibi was DSP/Firmware Manager at Aquantia from 2006 to 2012 where he made key contributions to its multi-gigabit Ethernet microchips analog/digital signal processing engine starting from the first test-chip to reaching the 1M+ port shipment milestone. Dr. Saibi started his career at Bell Labs Research and then Agere Systems, the Lucent Microelectronics spin-off, where he contributed to the research, development and commercialization of several cutting-edge communication systems, pioneering the use of advanced modulations and signal processing over fiber optics and copper media. Dr. Saibi graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, France in 1999 and received his PhD from Telecom Paris, France in 2005 for doctoral research work he carried out at Lucent Bell Labs.

Giuseppe Caire

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board

Jeffrey Andrews

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board
  • Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor of ECE

Jim Chiddix

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board
  • Cable Industry Veteran and Former CTO of Time Warner Cable / Technical

John Sculley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board

Jonathan Becher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board
  • President, San Jose Sharks and Sharks Sports and Entertainment

Matt Ettus

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board
  • Founder, Ettus Research, Software - Defined Radio Pioneer

Michael Bykhovsky - Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Strategy Officer
  • Member of the Artemis Leadership Team

Robert W. Heath Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board
  • Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor of ECE

Roger van der Laan - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Artemis Leadership Team
  • Member of the Business Advisory Board
  • Vice President of Engineering
Roger van der Laan is a technology inventor with a 20+ year track record of bringing wild ideas to reality. His creative solutions to tough engineering challenges in both real-time software and hardware have resulted in revolutionary products and over 100 U.S. patents and over 475 patents worldwide. As Vice President of Engineering and Co-founder of Artemis, Roger is responsible for leading the development and commercial deployment of the complex real-time software and hardware behind pCell technology. Roger joined Rearden Labs in 2004 and has since co-invented and implemented technologies ranging from the Mova Contour motion capture system used for Brad Pitt's character in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", which won an Oscar for "Best Achievement in Visual Effects," to the development of software lens technology, to inventing the core technology for OnLive low-latency cloud gaming technology. As Director of R&D at Delta Beta In-Flight, he designed and built the world's first self-contained, distributed In-Flight Entertainment system that delivered Video on Demand to each passenger.

Steve Perlman - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
  • Member of the Artemis Leadership Team
Steve Perlman, Artemis Founder & CEO, is an entrepreneur and inventor devoted to pioneering Internet, entertainment, multimedia, consumer electronics and communications technologies and services. He has 30 years of technology development experience, 25 years of start-up experience, and has been an Apple Principal Scientist and Microsoft Division President. He has a track record of pioneering breakthrough technologies and shaping them into media-rich, mass-market products and services. Steve's technology work, including the invention of QuickTime, is built into every iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac, most PCs, and a wide range of video and communication products and services offered by Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, Cisco, Motorola, Panasonic, AT&T, Comcast, DirecTV, Dish, Time Warner Cable, Charter Cable, Philips, RCA, Mitsubishi, Fujitsu and Sega. Products include QuickTime, Macintosh graphics and video, WebTV, the Moxi Media Center, MOVA Contour Facial Capture, and OnLive Cloud Gaming. Steve's production companies' work includes facial capture for Gravity (2013), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2011) and Academy Award®-winning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), as well as art/production design for Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis for major motion pictures War of the Worlds (2005), Monster House (2006) and Beowulf (2007); and HD video/audio editorial work for Santana, Electronic Arts and independent film. Steve holds over 1000 patents wordwide, including over 280 U.S. patents in an array of communications, video, graphics, facial capture, video gaming, software lens, and wireless power technologies.