Dado Banatao Board’s Director, Skyera

Skyera Inc. announced that Silicon Valley visionary Dado Banatao has been appointed to the company’s board of directors.

  In addition to his position as a board member of Skyera, Banatao is chairman of Ikanos, Inphi Corporation and Quintic Corporation and is on the board of directors of Alphion Corporation, Wave Semiconductor and Wilocity. He also served as chairman and led investments in Marvell Technology Group; SiRF Technology, acquired by CSR; Acclaim Communications, acquired by Level One; Newport Communications, acquired by Broadcom; and Stream Machine, acquired by Cirrus Logic (CRUS).

Banatao currently serves as managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital, where he provides a perspective in technology investments, leveraging his experience from co-founding three technology startups, as well as his past engineering work developing key semiconductor technologies and pioneering the PC chip set and graphics acceleration architecture that continue to be found in every PC today.

"We continue to seek out the very best and brightest minds to assist us on every level, whether that’s part of our management team, an addition to our technical advisory board or a key component to our board of directors," said Radoslav Danilak, CEO of Skyera. "Dado’s visionary status in the industry and extensive background in starting and investing in unique technology solutions for computing, communication and consumer platforms brings to Skyera instant recognition as a company that is set to revolutionize the industry with our solid-state enterprise storage solutions."