(Source: Business Wire)
GEO Semiconductor ("GEO") today announced that Dr. Robert A. Young has
agreed to join the Company's Board of Directors. Bob brings decades of
relevant business, financial and high board of directors experience. He
is expected to play a leading role in GEO's strategy, financing and
licensing efforts, as well as chair the Audit Committee.
Bob is a co-founding Managing Director of Mirador Capital LLC, a private
equity firm invested in U.S. venture capital firms. He also manages
personal private equity investments in early stage technology companies
through IRT, Inc.
Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of Curl Corporation, an Internet
infrastructure software company. Prior to that, Bob was a senior partner
and Managing Director at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., an investment bank,
where he had corporate finance responsibility for information technology
companies. He had previously served as the Managing General Partner of
Dillon Read's venture capital funds from 1987 to 1994. These funds
invested in early stage companies in information technology,
biotechnology, energy and financial services. Bob's personally directed
investments included SanDisk, Tessera, Virtual Machine Works and Team
Bank. From 1991 to 1995 Bob was also an advisor to Barings Private
Equity Partners, a global private equity group headquartered in London.
Bob started his business career with IBM where, over an 18 year period,
he held a number of management and executive positions in sales,
marketing, engineering and general management. His last position at IBM
was as President, IBM Instruments, a fully integrated global company
with operations in the US and several European countries. IBM
Instruments' products consisted of a broad range of scientific
instruments and real-time scientific computers.
Bob is a founding investor and Director of Tessera (NASDAQ: TSRA), the
leading semi-conductor interconnect technology company. He was also a
Director of ATI Technologies (NASDAQ: ATYT), a leading producer of 3-D
graphics and multimedia products until its merger with AMD in 2006. Bob
is also an investor and Director of several private technology
companies: SRC Computers, a producer of re-configurable, high
performance computers; Innolume, a company producing quantum dot lasers
for optical clocking of integrated circuits and computer interconnect
applications; Jatheon, a provider of network appliances for messaging
compliance management; SBG Labs Inc.
