Management Team | Executive Team
Tom Riordan
Exclara Inc., President and CEO
Tom brings to Exclara more than 25 years of experience as a semiconductor and microprocessor professional, having served as a developer, manager, and executive. Most recently, he was Vice President of PMC-Sierra's microprocessor division. Tom joined PMC-Sierra when it purchased Quantum Effect Devices (NASDAQ: QEDI), the company he co-founded in 1991. As President and CEO of QED, he guided it through three rounds of venture financing. The company went public in 2000 and Tom helped negotiate its acquisition by PMC-Sierra for $2.3 billion that same year. At that time, the company had reached a $64 million run rate with quarterly growth of 40%.
Prior to QED, Tom was director of CMOS VLSI for MIPS Computer Systems, where he led development efforts for the R4000 64-bit microprocessor and the M2000 20 mips computer system. He was the principal logic designer of the R2000 RISC microprocessor and the lead designer of the R2010 floating-point co-processor. Tom joined MIPS after serving as design engineer with both Weitek Corporation and Intel.
Tom holds a B.S. in Engineering, a B.A. in Government, and an M.S. in Engineering, all from Florida Technological University/University of Central Florida, where he was named IEEE Outstanding Senior Student. He has completed post-graduate studies in electrical engineering at Stanford. Currently Tom sits on the board of Mellanox Technologies, where he is a member of the Audit Committee.
Harry Rodriguez
Exclara Inc., Executive Vice President
Harry Rodriguez was a founding member of Exclara and served as Exclara's CEO for two years. Harry’s career spans over 18 years in digital system design and technical management, with focus on Digital Power Management and mixed signal design.
A well-recognized technologist with a proven track record of managing successful product developments, Harry holds over 6 patents, in power management, and communications. He has managed and technically contributed to the world’s first production digitally controlled “single stage power factor” correcting (PFC) integrated circuit.
Harry has spent the last five years in breakthrough power management digital controllers and mixed signal integrated circuits. He also has held management and key technical roles in several start ups: Space Computer Corporation, Turnstone Systems (public), and iWatt inc.
Dr. Anatoly Shteynberg
Exclara Inc., Chief Technical Officer & Board Observer
Dr. Anatoly Shteynberg, co-founder of Exclara. His distinguished career of over 30 years spans both the former Soviet Union and the United States. A recognized leader in power conversion technology, he is an author of 62 patents and 100 publications in power management.
Dr. Shteynberg is a former Vice President of R&D for Institute of Cybernetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences Moscow-Kishinev, USSR. In the USA he has held various executive and technical leadership positions: Vice President of corporate engineering for SiPEX, Director of engineering for Switched Power and iWatt inc., Technology Leadership positions in IBM, Siemens, and Ericsson. Proven management, technical, planning and budget tracking skills.
Dr Shteynberg is an expert in R&D processes and management to create cost effective designs for high volume manufacturing with extensive background in development of power conversion theory and a variety of industrial LED drivers, AC/DC, DC/DC, DC/AC converters and battery charges for volume production. He is also a leading Power and Packaging specialist in developing technologies to power microprocessors, mobile platforms, narrowband and broadband telecommunication systems, cold cathode lamps and solid-state lighting.
Lawrence Mazer
Exclara, Inc., Vice President Marketing
Mr. Mazer brings to Exclara over 15 years of marketing experience in the semiconductor arena, the majority of this time focusing on defining and bringing to market power management solutions. He has held marketing management positions at National Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, Micrel Semiconductor and start-up companies focused on portable power management and RFID applications. During this time, he has built marketing and application engineering teams and successfully launched several industry leadership products in the areas of cellular phones, Power Distribution and hot-swap power control. Mr. Mazer holds a Master and Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering.
T.J. de Jony
Exclara Inc.,VP Business Development
Mr. de Jony brings to Exclara a combined Light Emitting Diode and Integrated Circuit background. While at previous start-ups, Mr. de Jony delivered a proven track record in strategic planning and business development, helping enable a major liquidity event, and transforming an R&D LED phosphor focused company into a globally recognized industry leader in 16 months, achieving cash flow positive status with series B funding only. Mr. de Jony’s Global Sales and Marketing experience within the LED industry will enable Exclara to grow with the rapidly evolving Solid State Lighting industry.