Mr. Hojjat Salemi is a Silicon Valley Executive. He has been working in the high‐tech field for more than 35 years. His background is in Systems and Semiconductor Developments. Currently he is Chief Business Development Officer at Ranovus, responsible for Technology and Business Partnership.

Prior to joining Ranovus, Mr. Salemi was the VP of Optical Transport at Inphi & co-founder of Cortina Systems in Silicon Valley. He joined Inphi after Cortina Systems was acquired in October 2014, reporting directly to the CEO. He was instrumental on the success of Cortina’s acquisition into Inphi. Prior to Inphi, he was a co-founder of Cortina Systems, responsible for the P&L and growth of the Optical & Data Center Business Unit. During this time, he was also responsible for M&A and due diligence of several startups and established business units.

Prior to Cortina, Mr. Salemi was the CTO of Skystone, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in IP & Ethernet Datacom systems. Skystone was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1997 and has become a very successful R&D facility for Cisco in Ottawa, Canada. Skystone was the first acquisition of Cisco outside the US market. Before Skystone, he held various technical and management roles in Mitel, Fitel-PMX, NewBridge and Nortel Networks. He was responsible for delivering Systems and VLSI chips for several different applications.

Mr. Salemi received a Bachelor and Master of Engineering at University of Ottawa. In 2010 he was honored with the 2010 Faculty of Engineering Alumni Award of Excellence. He also holds several patents on a variety of topics relating to Systems and Semiconductor design.

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