Board of Directors
In addition to board chairman Chris Diorio and members Carver Mead and William Colleran, the following individuals serve on the Impinj board of directors:
Tom A. Alberg, Managing Director - Madrona Venture Group
Tom A. Alberg is a founder and managing director of Madrona Venture Group, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest. He previously served as President of LIN Broadcasting Corporation and Executive Vice President of McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. Earlier, he was previously Chairman of the Executive Committee and Partner at Perkins Coie, a Seattle law firm, and a lawyer with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. He is a director of Advanced Digital Information Corporation, Amazon.com, and several non-public technology companies. He is Chair of the Washington Technology Alliance and a member of the national executive committee of TechNet. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School.
Steve Arnold, Managing Partner - Polaris Venture Partners
Steve Arnold is a co-founder and managing general partner of Polaris' Seattle office. Along with Jon Flint and Terry McGuire, he founded Polaris in 1996. Prior to starting Polaris, Mr. Arnold served as a special advisor to Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. following more than 10 years in executive positions in the software industry. He served as vice president of Broadband Media Applications at Microsoft Corporation and as president and CEO of Continuum Productions (now Corbis), a private company founded by Bill Gates to pioneer the creation of large digital libraries for online distribution. Before coming to Continuum, Steve served as vice president and general manager of LucasArts Games and Learning divisions, and vice president of the New Media Group at Lucasfilm Ltd. He continues to serve as vice chairman of the board of directors of the George Lucas Educational Foundation.
Besides Impinj, Mr. Arnold represents Polaris on the boards of directors of, or helps manage the Polaris investments in, MessageGate, Noetix Corporation, Turbine Entertainment, E-Surg, and Syncronex.
He holds a BS with honors from Macalester College and an MA and PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies(CIIS) in San Francisco.
Clinton W. Bybee, Co-founder and Managing Director - ARCH Venture Partners
Clinton Bybee is a co-founder and Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners. Mr. Bybee concentrates primarily on advanced materials, electronics, semiconductors, photonics, and infrastructure businesses.
Mr. Bybee has helped organize and finance numerous companies including MicroOptical Devices (acquired by EMCORE), Cambrios Technologies, Aveso, Innovalight, Intelligent Reasoning Systems (acquired by Photon Dynamics), Semprius, Nanosys, and Xtera Communications.
He is a board member of Impinj, Innovalight, Cambrios Technologies, Xtera Communications, Nitronex and Aveso. Mr. Bybee is an organizing member of the Texas Venture Capital Association and currently serves as its first President.
Previously, Mr. Bybee worked with ARCH Development Corporation. He also managed a venture investment fund for the State of Illinois and was a production engineer with Amoco Corporation. Mr. Bybee holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Greg Galanos, Managing Director - Mobius Venture Capital in California
Greg Galanos is the managing director of Mobius Venture Capital. Since 2000, he has led early stage investments in semiconductors, communications equipment, wireless infrastructure software and internet-centric mobile platforms.
He currently serves as a board member and director in a number of private companies notably Aprio, Bloom Energy, Danger, Fujin, HVVi, Impinj, Infinera, PocketThis, SkyPilot Networks and Visage Mobile. He previously led investments into Transilica (acquired by Microtune) and Dantz (acquired by EMC).
Mr. Galanos is a veteran of the software development industry as both a developer and an entrepreneur. In 1985, he founded and helped build Metrowerks, one of the world's leading software development tools providers, producers of the CodeWarrior line of programming tools (acquired by Freescale Semiconductor, formerly Motorola, in 1999). He also helped define Freescale's software strategy as part of the Office of the President in 1999.
Prior to 1985, he assisted in the development of geographic information systems for Hydro-Quebec and the James Bay Development Corporation in Montreal. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from l'Universite du Quebec a Montreal.
James Thompson, Vice President – GF Private Equity
James Thompson is a vice president with GF Private Equity Group, which manages the assets of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. Dr. Thompson concentrates primarily on managing the Tribe’s portfolio of venture capital investments. Dr. Thompson has helped finance a number companies including Cswitch, a developer of field-programmable gate arrays suited for high-speed data processing, and Kotura, a leader in the area of silicon photonics. Previously, Dr. Thompson worked as a consultant at Standard & Poor’s, where he provided strategic and financial analysis to clients in a number of industries including pharmaceuticals, technology and financial services. Dr. Thompson holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Cornell University.
Albert Yu, Chairman, OneAngstrom LLC
Dr. Albert Yu is Chairman of OneAngstrom LLC, and has been active in investing and mentoring high technology companies. Dr. Yu retired from Intel Corporation in late 2002, after almost thirty years with the company. He had been Senior Vice President, member of the Corporate Management Committee and General Manager of the heart of Intel's business: microprocessors, chipsets and software (~$25B) for over sixteen years. Under his leadership, Intel's microprocessors from 386™ to the Pentium® 4 and Pentium M Processors have become the highest volume microchips that power computers and the internet and propelled Intel to be the largest semiconductor company in the world. Prior to Intel, he was with Fairchild R&D Lab, where he conducted research and development of solid-state devices and circuits. Albert received his bachelor's degree from California Institute of Technology and his master's and doctorate degrees from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering.
Albert serves on the boards of a number of high technology companies, venture capital firms and non-profit organizations. He recently received the "Distinguished Life Time Achievement Award" from CIE-USA in Feb 2006, among many other awards for his outstanding leadership of Intel's microprocessor business.