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Dr Venkata Gutta is experienced in bringing advanced semiconductor and radio technologies to the global market and has been successful in taking several projects from idea and concept stage to mass production.
Venkata started his career as an RF engineer, designing radio-frequency circuits for phased-array radars at CEA Technologies in Canberra, Australia. For over a decade, he held senior technical positions in integrated-circuit design and power-amplifier design in semiconductor and wireless companies in Europe such as NXP Semiconductors, Freescale Semiconductor, Huawei and Ampleon.
Dr. Gutta is an expert in the development of innovative concepts for radio-system architectures, high-efficiency power-amplifiers and transmitters and millimeter-wave integrated circuit design. He is the author of several IEEE publications, registered international patents, multiple patent applications and invention disclosures.
He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo in Canada and held research fellowships at the Macquarie University in Sydney. He has a PhD in microwave/millimeter-wave electronics from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics & communications engineering from the University of Canberra.
Delphine Chau (CA) holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is a Chartered Accountant (CA) with Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand (since 2005).
Delphine has over 20 years of experience in Financial & Commercial Controlling. She started her professional career in Chartered Firms before moving to Financial Services and then to commercial, working for Global Multinational organisations and ASX/NXZ listed companies. Some of these companies include Cellarmaster Wines (subsidiary of Woolworth Liquor), Universal Pictures Australasia, Beiersdorf Australia (Affiliate of Beiersdorf AG), La Prairie Switzerland, a2Milk and Restaurant Brands. Delphine has extensive experience across audit, tax, advisory, finance management and financial controlling. She is credited with senior stakeholder management, leading large finance teams and more recently, successful implementation of large ERP Systems such as SAP.
During her down time, she likes to read, travel, and immerse herself in the gastronomy of the world.
Fergal has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a master’s degree in Engineering systems. He has 15+ years' experience in engineering design and held leadership roles in Europe, Australia and the USA, at companies including CSR, Samsung, Nitero and AMD.
He has been involved in the design and implementation of numerous successful BT, WiFi, GPS, FM and 60GHz transceiver ICs on various leading edge CMOS processes for tier 1 customers such as Nokia, Sony and BMW. Over the last decade, Fergal has held senior technical positions leading the development and design of PLLs, PAs for 60GHz CMOS Chipsets and LO sub-systems in both RF and base-band shipsets.
He joined Millibeam in early 2022 and in February 2023 he was promoted to Director of Mixed-Signal Design, making him responsible for all aspects related to the implementation of world-class IC's for Millibeams suite of products.
Lindsay has 20 years of experience in leading edge software, analog and digital electronics, ASICs, FPGAs, and RF development. He has a strong background in complex cross disciplinary system architecture and design and is experienced in best-practice design techniques and processes.
As a manager and a leader, he is experienced in managing teams with a diverse set of skills and experience levels.
His most recent roles have been as Head of Control of Systems at Quantum Brilliance, Head of Hardware Engineering at Bionic Vision Technologies, Head of Hardware Engineering at Vivienne Court Trading and ASIC team lead at Cochlear. He was also a lead engineer at Metamako (acquired by Arista Networks) and held ASIC Design and software engineering roles at Canon Information Systems Research Australia.
Lindsay has a master’s degree in electronic engineering from Macquarie University and has a dual bachelor’s degree (with first-class honours) in electronics engineering and computer science from Melbourne University.
In his spare time, Lindsay enjoys playing tennis, jogging and indoor rock climbing/bouldering
Board Members
Dr Venkata Gutta is experienced in bringing advanced semiconductor and radio technologies to the global market and has been successful in taking several projects from idea and concept stage to mass production.
Venkata started his career as an RF engineer, designing radio-frequency circuits for phased-array radars at CEA Technologies in Canberra, Australia. For over a decade, he held senior technical positions in integrated-circuit design and power-amplifier design in semiconductor and wireless companies in Europe such as NXP Semiconductors, Freescale Semiconductor, Huawei and Ampleon.
Dr. Gutta is an expert in the development of innovative concepts for radio-system architectures, high-efficiency power-amplifiers and transmitters and millimeter-wave integrated circuit design. He is the author of several IEEE publications, registered international patents, multiple patent applications and invention disclosures.
He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo in Canada and held research fellowships at the Macquarie University in Sydney. He has a PhD in microwave/millimeter-wave electronics from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics & communications engineering from the University of Canberra.
Mike Nicholls is a partner at Main Sequence helping startups, researchers and entrepreneurs in the Australian startup and research ecosystem generate early customer leads and opportunities. He leads the Health and Decarb challenges for the fund and helps drive investments into semiconductors, opticals, AI, renewable energy, cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular. Passionate about sales and marketing, Mike is the partner that manages the Sales, Marketing and Hardware events the fund runs to help portfolio founders scale their businesses. Mike sits on the board for various deep tech companies such as Swoop Aero, MILLIBEAM and Amber Electric. He is incredibly passionate about mentorship and building the next generation of tech leaders in Australia, serving as a mentor/advisor for the INCUBATE Startup Program where he teaches startups about sales, building a business, and venture capital. He’s also been a mentor and/or panel member CSIRO ON Accelerator program and Cicada Medlab.
Prior to joining Main Sequence, Mike was the director of invention development on the startup team for Intellectual Ventures where he identified inventions that had commercial potential and was responsible for assembling a team of engineers to bring the innovation to life. Mike also founded several companies including Visimagic Inc. Searchcorp, and Nicholls-Price, and was a CEO at Enikos and Dtecht Pty Ltd respectively. Mike earned his Bachelor of Business Accounting from the University of Technology Sydney. Mike is a mad crazy yachtsman having completed two Sydney to
Hobarts and four Sydney to Gold Coast races and can be found most Sundays on a yacht racing. He also enjoys experimenting with machine learning and sales and marketing hacks.
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