Shahin Hedayat, Chairman, CEO & Co-founder
Shahin Hedayat is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Beceem Communications, Inc. Hedayat has more than twenty years of experience in the communication semiconductor industry, with a diverse background ranging from product definition and development to customer marketing. Prior to Beceem Communications, Hedayat co-founded Centillium Communications Inc. where he served as President. Centillium soared to $159 million in revenue and became a public company within four years from its inception. Previously, Hedayat spent eleven years at Cirrus Logic, where he became Vice President of Engineering for computer telephony products, and was the architect of V.32bis and V.34 products that achieved multi-million unit shipments. Hedayat earned a B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is the named inventor on 9 U.S. patents.

Babu Mandava, President & Co-founder
Babu Mandava is President and Co-founder of Beceem Communications, Inc. Mandava has more than twenty-two years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to co-founding Beceem, Mandava was a co-founder of Centillium Communications, a semiconductor company well known for product innovations in ADSL and VOIP. At Centillium, Mandava played a key role in the design and architecture of the SIMD/VLIW DSP processor that enabled Centillium to introduce breakthrough industry-first products like multi-channel ADSL modem and high density VOIP chips. Mandava obtained an M.S.E.E. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and is the named inventor on five U.S. patents.  Mandava has had several articles published in the areas of design for testability and fault tolerant processor design.

Dr. Arogyaswami Paulraj, CTO & Co-founder
Arogyaswami Paulraj is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Beceem Communications Inc. and is a pioneer in MIMO wireless technology. Paulraj is a professor at Stanford University, where he supervises the Smart Antennas Research Group. Prior to Beceem, Paulraj founded Iospan Wireless Inc., which was later acquired by Intel Corp. He is the author of two text books and more than 350 research papers and is an inventor on 30 U.S. patents. His U.S. recognitions include the IEEE Technical Achievement Award and several IEEE best paper awards, and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Paulraj has also won more than a dozen national awards in India and he is a fellow of several professional bodies including the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the IEEE. Paulraj serves on several company advisory boards, university councils, and government committees in the U.S. and India.

Rajat Gupta, GM India Operations
Rajat Gupta is Managing Director of Beceem Communications Private LTD., Beceem's development arm of the company in India. Prior to Beceem, he served as Managing Director of Cypress Semiconductor India, where he was responsible for the P&L of Indian operations. Previously, he was Vice President of Technology Development at Arcus Technology, where he developed embedded microprocessors, analog and mixed signal design technology to address the emerging mixed-signal IP market. Gupta was also Design Manager at Semi-Conductor Complex Ltd., where he led design teams in the development of several ASICs for defense, space and other government agencies. Rajat obtained his B.E. from Calcutta University in 1980 and a master of technology in integrated electronics and circuits from IIT, Delhi. He holds three patents and is a senior member of IEEE.

Dave Carroll, VP Worldwide Sales
David W. Carroll is Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Beceem Communications, Inc. Carroll has fifteen years experience in the communication semiconductor industry and is responsible for defining, implementing and managing all aspects of sales strategy and customer relationships. Prior to Beceem, Carroll served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Mindspeed Technologies, where he was responsible for managing the direct worldwide sales force as well as its sales channel partner network around the world. Previously, he was Vice President of Americas Sales for Conexant Systems and held various sales management positions for Rockwell Semiconductor Systems.  He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from San Diego State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.

Lars Johnsson, VP Business Development
Lars Johnsson is Vice President of Business Development for Beceem Communications, Inc. Prior to Beceem, Johnsson co-founded Flarion Technologies, the pioneer of OFDMA-based mobile broadband technology. At Flarion, where he helped spin off Lucent Bell Labs, he was responsible for technology marketing, the product roadmap and the business model until the company was acquired by Qualcomm. Previously, he worked in Lucent's New Ventures Group driving wireless startup activities. Johnsson received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany, his M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany and his M.B.A. in technology management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Angelo Stephano, VP Marketing
Angelo Stephano is Vice President of Marketing for Beceem Communications. He has more than twenty three years experience in various aspects of the semiconductor communications business, from engineering to marketing to executive management. Before joining Beceem, he was senior Vice President of Marketing at RF Magic where he formulated the business and marketing strategies helping the company in a successful merger with Entropic. Previously, Stephano was the Vice President and General Manager for GlobeSpan, where he led the DSL and communications processor business with annual revenues of over $300M securing a leadership position in the DSL market. Before GlobeSpan, he was with Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, where he held the position of Business Director managing the analog modem business unit in retail, PC OEM, and embedded markets securing a leadership position for the company with annual revenues of over $800M. Stephano started his career at Rockwell which he joined as a systems engineer developing V.29 and V.32 modems and moved to product line management. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, with continuing education in engineering and business management.