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Venkata is experienced in bringing advanced semiconductor concepts and technologies to the global market and has been successful in taking several projects from idea and concept stage all the way to mass production. Often, he has been a single engineer working on ‘submarine’ projects that have turned into big revenue earners.
Dr. Gutta was the technical lead on successful high-volume base-station products, with design wins at Ericsson, totalling tens of millions of dollars for companies such as NXP Semiconductors and Freescale semiconductor. A number of these products can be found across various 4G base stations around the world, and these products are still in production. Early in his career, he developed innovative radio-frequency circuit designs to meet challenging specifications for radars. Some of these designs can be found in advanced phased-array radars onboard United States Navy ships.
Venkata started his career in Australia working at CEA Technologies in Canberra and has worked and held senior technical positions for a decade in top-tier semiconductor and wireless companies in Europe such as NXP Semiconductors, Freescale Semiconductor, Huawei and Ampleon. He has been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo in Canada and has held research fellowships at Macquarie University in Sydney.
Dr. Gutta is an expert in the development of innovative concepts for radio system architectures, high-efficiency transmitter architectures, advanced beamforming techniques and millimeter-wave integrated circuit design techniques. He is the author of several IEEE publications and international patents and in addition to multiple patent applications and invention disclosures.
He has a PhD in microwave/millimeter-wave electronics from Macquarie University in Sydney and a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics & communications engineering from the University of Canberra.
Alfred based in Taiwan is an accomplished sales executive with a career spanning over two decades. Alfred started his career in Hitachi as a senior R&D engineer and has since worked in various senior sales roles at Synopsis, ARM Taiwan and Nuvoton Technology Corporation, where he was most recently a Sales Director and Head of Sales for North America Region.
Alfred has consistently outperformed sales targets year-on-year in all the companies he has worked at. By all accounts, he was consistently in the top 1% of all the sales personnel within ARM and has a number of World's first in design wins for several well-known ARM products such as Cortex-A5, ISP C32 and Asia's first design win for NPU Ethos-U55 and Taiwan's first design win for Cortex-M33. Alfred is well-connected to the vendors and ODMs in the Taiwanese semiconductor ecosystem and is well-placed to drive sales growth for MILLIBEAM.
Dennis Luzon brings over 20 years of expertise in Integrated Circuit (IC) Layout Design to MILLIBEAM. He has a proven track record of delivering first-time-right chip designs that are fully qualified and silicon-proven across all 5G mmWave bands, including C-Band and 60 GHz.
Before joining MILLIBEAM, Dennis served as Layout Team Lead at MobixLabs and Movandi, where he played a key role in developing advanced 5G mmWave chipsets. Throughout his career, he has contributed to more than 60 chip designs, leveraging cutting-edge tools and working with various wafer substrates and foundries, including 28nm/45nm TSMC Bulk Silicon and GlobalFoundries’ Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) processes.
His previous experience includes roles at SILANNA Semiconductor Australia, CATENA Microelectronics in the Netherlands (now part of NXP Semiconductors), and Cochlear in Australia. Dennis began his career in 1997 as an IC Layout Engineer at ROHM LSI Design Philippines. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
At MILLIBEAM, Dennis leads the industrialisation of new products, overseeing qualification and release, while also supporting R&D programs through supply chain and foundry management.
Sasha is a certified accounting professional and currently serves as the Head of Finance at MILLIBEAM. In this role, she oversees critical financial functions, including cash flow management, budgeting, and forecasting, ensuring the company’s financial stability and strategic growth.
With extensive experience across global organisations such as DHL, Sasha brings a wealth of expertise in financial planning and operational efficiency.
She holds a Master’s degree in Accounting from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, further reinforcing her strong academic and professional foundation.
Born, raised and educated in Ireland, Fergal has a bachelor’s degree in electrical and Electronic Engineering and a master’s degree in engineering systems.
He started his professional career as a graduate engineer at Cambridge Silicon Radio, where he spent 8 years learning, designing and ultimately leading the development of analog/RF and mixed-signal sub-systems for various modules of CSRs chipsets. These include Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and FM transceivers on various leading edge CMOS processes for tier-1 customers such as Nokia, Sony and BMW.
The mobile-phone technology division of CSR was bought by Samsung in2012, where Fergal spent the next 1.5 years responsible for the development of Bluetooth PLLs as part of the Galaxy S6/7 range of mobile phones.
Fergal relocated to Australia in 2014 where he joined Nitero, a CSIRO sponsored start-up, spun-out of the 60GHz CMOS transceiver research team from The University of Melbourne. During his time there, he was responsible for the architecture of the LO sub-systems in both the RF and base-band chipsets.
Nitero was acquired by US based AMD in 2017 where Fergal was promoted to the most senior technical level at the Melbourne based design centre. Whilst at AMD he led development of PLLs and designed PAs for the 60GHz CMOS chipset, sharing time between AMDs headquarters in Santa Clara, USA, and Melbourne Australia.
He joined Millibeam in early 2022 as Senior Principal Engineer and in February 2023 he was promoted to Director, Mixed-Signal Design, making him responsible for all aspects related to the implementation of world-class IC's for MILLIBEAM’s suite of products.
Yifan comes with a deep expertise in antenna design and has a strong track record across both industry and academia. His professional experience includes a stint as Principal Antenna/Packaging Engineer at Movandi, which is well-known U.S. based mmWave 5G company. During his time at Movandi, Yifan designed and built phased-array antenna modules from 28GHz all the way up to140GHz.
Prior to that, he was an Antenna System R&D Lead at EM Solutions, which is a Queensland-based manufacturer of mmWave radio systems and components. At EM Solutions, Yifan developed novel theoretical techniques towards the development of reconfigurable EM structures and antennas, in addition to leading a multidisciplinary engineering team working on the development of antennas and signal processing.
Yifan worked for several years as a Lecturer at the University of Queensland, and his work in academia is complemented by 60 publications with a high citation rate. He has been granted several patents in the field of antennas and has a distinguished body of work that includes 5G mmWavephased-array antennas, holographic planar antennas for satcom applications and transformation optics.
Christian has been involved with semiconductor testing and IC validation for twenty years, spanning multitude of specialisations and areas such as digital-to-analog converters, low-dropout regulators, DC-DC converters, operational amplifiers, power MOSFETs, multi-port chargers, automotive magnetic sensors, and microphones. He is also an expert in the development of automated-test equipment validation, evaluation and characterisation of new IC designs, development of test solutions for mixed-signal integrated circuits, circuit-board development, scripting and bench automation and test-hardware and software debugging.
Christian has held senior IC validation engineering and senior test development engineering roles globally, across companies such Analog Devices Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, Silanna Semiconductor etc.
Christian has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (magna cum laude) from the University of San Carlos in the Philippines.
Jordan Mitchell has completed a bachelor's degree in computer science and is on target to complete the bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from UNSW. He is equally adept in software development as well as hardware engineering. He is especially passionate about hardware engineering, RFIC design of millimeter-wave power amplifiers and antenna design.
Jordan worked as intern in at L3 Harris prior to starting as an IC design intern at MILLIBEAM towards the end of 2022. Since then, he has quickly established himself as a very valuable member of the team.
In particular, he has worked with the director of mixed-signal IC design in developing a programmable script for automating the integration and simulation of a 3D package electrical model and bond wires with the integrated circuit chip.
This proprietary software that Jordan developed has made IC designers very productive, cutting design times and speeding up time-to-market.
Delphine Chau (CA)is the Director of Operations at MILLIBEAM with over 20 years of experience in Financial & Commercial Controlling in global multinational organisations and ASX/NZX listed companies. Delphine holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is a Chartered Accountant (CA)with Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand (since 2005). Delphine is a highly skilled finance professional with extensive experience across professional audit, tax, advisory, managed funds, finance management and financial controlling. She is credited with experience in senior stakeholder management, leading large finance teams and more recently, lead the successful implementation of large Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems.
At MILLIBEAM, Delphine has implemented best in class finance practices and processes, launched a new HRIS systems and opened 2 new MILLIBEAM offices across 2 States. During the downtime, she likes to travel and immerse herself in the gastronomy of the world.
Board Members
Venkata is experienced in bringing advanced semiconductor concepts and technologies to the global market and has been successful in taking several projects from idea and concept stage all the way to mass production. Often, he has been a single engineer working on ‘submarine’ projects that have turned into big revenue earners.
Dr. Gutta was the technical lead on successful high-volume base-station products, with design wins at Ericsson, totalling tens of millions of dollars for companies such as NXP Semiconductors and Freescale semiconductor. A number of these products can be found across various 4G base stations around the world, and these products are still in production. Early in his career, he developed innovative radio-frequency circuit designs to meet challenging specifications for radars. Some of these designs can be found in advanced phased-array radars onboard United States Navy ships.
Venkata started his career in Australia working at CEA Technologies in Canberra and has worked and held senior technical positions for a decade in top-tier semiconductor and wireless companies in Europe such as NXP Semiconductors, Freescale Semiconductor, Huawei and Ampleon. He has been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo in Canada and has held research fellowships at Macquarie University in Sydney.
Dr. Gutta is an expert in the development of innovative concepts for radio system architectures, high-efficiency transmitter architectures, advanced beamforming techniques and millimeter-wave integrated circuit design techniques. He is the author of several IEEE publications and international patents and in addition to multiple patent applications and invention disclosures.
He has a PhD in microwave/millimeter-wave electronics from Macquarie University in Sydney 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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