Palo Alto

Brian has over 30 years experience in the Semiconductor and technology industry and is based in Palo Alto California.

In 1993, Brian was founder and CEO of Parthus Technologies Plc (now CEVA Inc), a leading Digital Signal Processing company which supplied technology and IP to over 40% of the world’s smart phones. In 2000, Brian led the company’ Initial Public Offering with a dual listing on the Nasdaq and LSE stock markets. In 2002 Brian founded and was chairman of GloNav Inc, a leading GPS company which developed the first single chip GPS solution deployed in the Samsung Galaxy phones. The company was sold to NXP in 2004.

Brian is co-founder and Managing Partner of Atlantic Bridge Capital from 2004 to present time. During that time, Brian has served as a director on over twenty technology companies in Europe and the US and was instrumental in helping build and successfully sell these companies, principally to major US corporations. These BOD/Chair roles include:- Movidius sold to Intel, DecaWave sold to Qorvo, Magnetics sold to Dell/EMC, Blue Data sold to HPE, Nanotec sold to Gennum Inc, Bridge Co sold to SMSC, Silicon Blue sold to Lattice Semi, Lion Semiconductor sold to Cirrus Logic, Hedvig Inc sold to Commvault, Nod Labs sold to AMD, NuVia sold to Qualcomm, Chirp sold to TDK and Navitas (NVTS) IPO on Nasdaq.

Brian has an undergraduate and Master's degree in Electronic Engineering and Semiconductor MicroElectronics from Trinity College Dublin. Brian started his career as a design engineer at Bell Labs AT&T and later as Corporate head of mixed signal IC design at Digital Equipment Corporation. He is cited as the inventor on a number of US and European IC patents.

Brian was awarded the Earnest&Young Entrepreneur of the year award in 2000, Silicon Valley Top 50 Technology Executive in 2010 and was awarded the American-Ireland Fund Person of the year Award in 2014.

Sunir joined Atlantic Bridge in 2012 and has over 30 years of international management and technical experience working in technology for high profile companies such as Oracle (VP Marketing and VP Global Strategy) where he was part of the Management Committee and Microsoft (Director World Wide Business Strategy) where he reported to the Office of the President. Sunir was most recently CEO of UBmatrix Inc, the creator of XBRL, the global standard for business information exchange, which was acquired by RR Donnelley (NASDAQ: RRD). He was previously co-­founder and CEO of E-­Stamp, credited with inventing the technology and market for Internet postage (NASDAQ: STMP), and one of the first internet payment systems. Sunir has also worked for Novell, Inc., Honeywell as well as at the European Space Agency in Europe. Sunir has a BS (Hon) in Physics from the University of Birmingham (UK) and a MS in Computer Systems from the Cranfield Institute of Technology (UK).

Kumar Sreekanti is a venture partner at Atlantic Bridge Ventures, specializing in software, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML. With over 30 years of industry experience, Kumar has a proven track record of identifying and investing in cutting-edge technology startups. As a three-time founder-CEO Kumar brings a wealth of operational expertise that is invaluable to founders building and scaling startups. Prior to joining Atlantic Bridge, Kumar served as the Global CTO and Head of Software at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), where he led the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for the HPE software-defined portfolio. He joined HPE through the acquisition of BlueData, where he was the founder and CEO. Before that, Kumar held leadership roles in R&D at top technology companies such as VMware, Akamai, and Adaptec. Kumar is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. In his free time, he enjoys gardening, photography, running, and delving into philosophy.