Team
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.
David Lam is General Partner of Atlantic Bridge Capital. He led the firm’s investments and represents Atlantic Bridge on the boards of Semsysco, SweGaN, Caption Health, Syntiant and AtScale. He previously represented the firm on the boards of Movidius (acquired by Intel), Decawave (acquired by Qorvo) and Navitas (Nasdaq IPO), among others. Prior to Atlantic Bridge, David was Managing Director of WestSummit Capital where he served as its representative on the boards of Twitch (acquired by Amazon), Mirantis and Maginatics (acquired by EMC) among others. David was previously Managing Director for WI Harper, a cross-border venture capital firm. Prior to that, David was Vice President at The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm, after serving as head of business development for a Carlyle portfolio company. He also held various operating roles at CIENA Corporation, ONI Systems, Cisco Systems and Proxim. David began his career as an investment banker at Robertson Stephens & Company.
David is a board member, past president and past chairman of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA), which is the oldest and largest pan-Asian, cross-border technology executive network in Silicon Valley. He also serves on the boards of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM) and the Bullis-Purissima Elementary School Foundation.
David holds a BS and an MA from Stanford University, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he was recipient of the Merit Scholarship and Patrick McGovern Award.
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).
Andrew is a Partner at Atlantic Bridge where he focuses on identifying and evaluating new investment opportunities in enterprise software. Andrew has helped lead investments into a number of Atlantic Bridge portfolio companies including Vectra.ai, Logtrust (Devo), Striim, Selector Software, Graphiant, Elisity, Mitiga, Seemplicity, SocPrime, AttackIQ, Aizon and Secondmind.
Prior to joining Atlantic Bridge, Andrew was with Arma Partners in London as part of their M&A and Research practice, he started his career as a consultant with PWC and holds a MSc in Economics and Statistics from the University of London and a BSc in Business Management from the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Prior to joining Atlantic Bridge, Andrew was with Arma Partners in London as part of their M&A and Research practice, he started his career as a consultant with PWC and holds a MSc in Economics and Statistics from the University of London and a BSc in Business Management from the Dublin Institute of Technology.