Jim Diller
Jim Diller is the Acting CEO for QuickSilver Technology and serves on the Company’s Board of Directors. A seasoned technologist and executive business manager, he brings 20 years of experience to QuickSilver Technology from the semiconductor sector. Most recently, Mr. Diller has been a member of the Venture Tech Alliance investment team. Prior to his investment management roles, he was CEO of Altos Semiconductor, a start-up company in thermal and system management, that was later acquired by Micrel. During an 18-year career at National Semiconductor, Mr. Diller held several executive positions, including Vice President of the System Products Group. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Mosaic Systems and Zenasis.

Paul Master
Paul Master is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at QuickSilver Technology. Mr. Master has over 20 years experience in managing high technology communications and computer programs incorporating reconfigurable computing, digital signal processing, protocols, and systems. He has worked for Boeing, ARGO Systems, Acer America, and in several start-up companies focusing on multimedia and wireless communications. While at Boeing, Mr. Master founded a new division to bring three revolutionary products to market. These products included a smart antenna interference reduction cellular product line; a reconfigurable computing high-speed protocol analyzer product line for the intranet and Internet; and a communications network test-bed to support the network definition and algorithm development for Teledesic's Internet in the Sky. Mr. Master specializes in telecommunications, ASIC design, high-speed hardware designs and embedded multiprocessor software designs.

Ralph Haines
Ralph Haines is the Vice President of Hardware Engineering at QuickSilver Technology. Mr. Haines has over 20 years of experience in the design and development of complex integrated circuits, including architecture, circuit design and logic design. He has worked in senior technical management positions for Infineon Technologies, Chameleon Systems and National Semiconductor and has played a principal role in bringing to market a number of microprocessors and digital signal processors, including the TriCore product from Infineon. His experience at Chameleon in the development of reconfigurable computing brings substantial value to the development of QuickSilver Technology’s adaptive computing technology. Mr. Haines is also the inventor of the COPS line of 4-bit and 8-bit microcontrollers from National Semiconductor. Mr. Haines holds nine patents, with two patents pending. His areas of expertise include embedded systems; microprocessor and digital signal processor architectures; custom CMOS design, layout, optimization and design flow.

Technology Advisory Board

Dr. Nick Tredennick
Dr. Nick Tredennick is QuickSilver Technology's Chief Scientist and heads QuickSilver's technology advisory board. Dr. Tredennick was named a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to microprocessor design. He has over twenty years experience in computer and microprocessor design, holds nine patents, and has published nearly fifty technical publications, including a textbook on microprocessor design ("Microprocessor Logic Design"). He was a Senior Design Engineer at Motorola, a Research Staff Member at IBM's Watson Research Center, and Chief Scientist at Altera. Dr. Tredennick did the logic design and micro code for Motorola's MC68000 and for IBM's Micro/370 microprocessors. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a founder of several Silicon Valley startups, including NextGen. Texas Tech University named Dr. Tredennick one of its Distinguished Engineers in 1997. Dr. Tredennick is a computer engineering accreditation advisor for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. He serves on the IEEE Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities, which writes accreditation requirements for computer and electrical engineering programs.

Dr. Peter Athanas
Dr. Peter Athanas is a senior technical ACM and CDMA consultant to QuickSilver Technology and an associate professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests include high performance computing, adaptive computing, VLSI, logic synthesis, and parallel processing. He also served as a senior design engineer in the Advanced Technologies Group at United Technologies Hamilton Sundstrand in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. Dr. Athanas received his BS degree in electrical engineering from The University of Toledo, his MS degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his Sc.M. degree in applied mathematics at Brown University, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Brown University.