Telegent Systems represents a breakthrough opportunity for handset makers, carriers, and broadcasters.
Management Team
Weijie Yun
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
Dr. Weijie Yun co-founded Telegent Systems in 2004, bringing years of broad business experience with a solid engineering background. Prior to co-founding Telegent Systems, Dr. Yun was responsible for marketing and product management at Berkana Wireless, Inc., which successfully introduced the first single-chip RF CMOS transceiver for GSM/GPRS cellular applications. Dr. Yun is a serial entrepreneur. As the founding President and CEO of AIP Networks, he led the development of switching subsystems for optical networks. His broad business experience encompasses stints at BEI Technologies and SiTek, Inc. where he served as founding Director and was responsible for business strategy and product development.
Dr. Yun received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and obtained his B.S. degree in Physics and Electronics from Zhengzhou University in China.
Samuel Sheng
Chief Technical Officer, Co-Founder
Dr. Samuel Sheng co-founded Telegent Systems in 2004. A world-renowned expert in CMOS RF and DSP development, Dr. Sheng has extensive experience in architecting and designing leading-edge CMOS RF and DSP chips for silicon tuners, ADSL transceivers, magnetic recording and DVD RF/servo technologies. He has a proven track record of sampling first silicon for all the chips developed under his leadership. Prior to co-founding Telegent Systems, Dr. Sheng was at LSI Logic and responsible for architecting and implementing a series of silicon RF tuners for video-band applications, targeted for cable modems, analog/digital video over cable, and voice over IP as well as highly integrated DVD front-end technologies. Before LSI Logic, Dr. Sheng co-led the ADSL front-end (AFE) development effort at Datapath Systems, Inc.
Dr. Sheng was awarded Inventor of the Year at LSI Logic in 2002 and 2003 and was named the 2002 Distinguished Engineer at LSI Logic. He has authored numerous papers and publications on various topics such as low-power CMOS RF wireless systems and low-power CMOS digital design. He has been awarded seven patents in the areas of RF tuner and DSL modem design. Dr. Sheng received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, and the B.A. degree in applied mathematics, all from the University of California, Berkeley.
Steve Bragonier
Chief Financial Officer
Steve Bragonier has over 20 years experience providing strong financial management to Silicon Valley high tech companies. For the last three years, Steve has had his own financial consulting practice assisting high tech companies establish proper financial controls and measurements, implement effective financial planning and raising capital. Previously, Steve worked as CFO at Neoteris which was acquired by Netscreen for $300M. He has also held CFO positions at Flashpoint and Siros. Steve spent a majority of his career with Silicon Graphics and assisted in its growth from a pre public startup to a large multi national corporation with revenues of over $4 billion. During Steve’s tenure at SGI he held a variety of positions including Corporate Controller, Group Controller and Director of International Finance located in Switzerland. Steve started his career with Hewlett Packard.
Mr. Bragonier holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a BA in Economics from Stanford University.
Andy Burstein
Vice President, Engineering
Prior to joining Telegent, Dr. Andy Burstein worked 8 years at Volterra in several engineering management roles, including VP Engineering, where he lead the design of Volterra's multi-phase regulator product line, and VP Advanced Circuit Design, where he led research in architectures for future products. Before Volterra, Dr. Burstein worked at HP Labs on high speed CMOS analog to digital converter design.
Dr. Burstein received his M.S. and a Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He holds numerous patents.
Ken Wang
General Manager, Telegent China
Prior to joining Telegent Systems, Dr. Ken Wang was the Director of Business Management for Harmonics Inc, responsible for business development, sales, marketing and supply chain management. Before Harmonics, he worked for JDS Uniphase in business development, and product marketing, where he received the President Award for his leadership role in product development. He also worked as a researcher at Bell Laboratories where he invented novel technologies for semiconductor manufacturing process. He has numerous publications and holds one patent.
Dr. Ken Wang holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania in both finance and operation. He graduated from Beijing University in China.
Stephen Zadig
Vice President, Operations
Stephen Zadig oversees global operations which includes all manufacturing activities, high-volume supply chain management, and infrastructure development to support the company's rapid growth. Steve comes to Telegent with over thirty years of proven experience and expertise with Semiconductor Manufacturing Operations, combined with an extensive background in companies from the start-up phase through IPO phase. From 1996 through 2001, he was the founding VP of Operations at Marvell Semiconductor, a leading-edge mixed-signal processing company. Prior to that, Steve was VP of Operations at Paradigm Technology from 1995 to 1996, where he was retained to lead the company through its IPO. And from 1990 through 1995, Steve was the founding VP of Operations at C-Cube Microsystems, a company he helped lead from inception to a successful IPO. While at C-Cube Microsystems, Steve was a principal founder of the Fabless Semiconductor Association, where he served as Chairman of the Forecast Committee.