Board of Directors

Gregorio Reyes
Chairman
Gregorio joined the Board in December 2003. His experience is primarily in data storage and magnetic recording, semiconductors, and telecommunications. He was President and CEO of National Micronetics from 1981 to 1984, and Chairman and CEO of American Semiconductor Equipment Technologies from 1986 to 1990. He co-founded Sunward Technologies in 1985 and was Chairman and CEO until 1994. He is currently on the board of Seagate Technology and is also a director of a number of companies, including LSI Logic, Nuera Communications, Future Trade Technology, Appshop and Astute Networks.

Dr Jalal Bagherli
Chief Executive Officer
Jalal joined Dialog, as CEO, in September 2005. He was previously Vice President & General Manager of the Mobile Multimedia business unit for Broadcom Corporation and the CEO of Alphamosaic. He has extensive experience of the semiconductor industry, through his previous professional and executive positions at Texas Instruments and Sony, and a wealth of knowledge about the Far Eastern, European and North American markets. He is a non-executive director of Lime Microsystems Ltd.

Chris Burke
Non-executive Director
Chris joined the Board in July 2006. Until the end of 2004, he was CTO at Vodafone UK Limited and was previously CTO at Energis, after spending 15 years in Research & Development at Northern Telecom. He holds appointments at Connectivity Ltd (an Esprit, and 3i Portfolio Company); Tatara Systems; OneAccess; INUK Networks; and March Networks. He currently invests from his own fund and provides strategic advice to a wide range of investors and technology companies, including HP Communications & Media, and VantagePoint Venture Partners.

Aidan Hughes
Non-executive Director
Aidan joined the Board in October 2004. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in the 1980s before taking senior accountant roles at Lex Service Plc and Carlton Communications Plc. He was Finance Director of the Sage Group plc from 1993 until 2000 and, from December 2001 to August 2004 was a director of Communisis Plc. He is a director of, and investor in, a number of UK private technology companies.

John McMonigall
Non-executive Director
John joined the Board in March 1998. He has been a director at Apax Partners since 1990 and, between 1986 and 1990, held a variety of senior positions at British Telecommunications plc and was also a member of the management board. He is currently on the board of several other public and private companies including Autonomy Plc.

Russ Shaw
Non-executive Director, Chair of Remunerations & Nominations Committee
Russ joined the Board in July 2006. He is currently the Vice President & General Manager for Skype with responsibilities for its Mobile Division as well as Europe, Middle East and Africa. Previously, he was at Telefonica where he was the Global Director of Innovation. Before joining Telefonica, he was the Innovation Director at O2, which he joined as Marketing Director in 2005. The strong brand and product range he established resulted in significant customer growth. His more-than 20 years' senior marketing and brand management experience in the telecoms and financial services area has enabled him to bring an excellent level of knowledge to Dialog.

Peter Tan
Non-executive Director
Peter joined the Board in July 2006. He has held senior management roles across a wide range of technology companies, including National Semiconductors Pte Ltd, Molex Singapore Pte Ltd, Apple Computer Inc. and Flextronics International Inc. He is presently Managing Partner of JP Asia Capital Partners Pte Ltd, and also sits on the board of Vacuumschmelze (VAC) Luxembourg S.a.r.l., VariOptic SA, Innotek Limited and SMRT Corporation Ltd. Besides his Board role, Peter has an advisory function in the National University of Singapore BTech Program and is a member of the International Evaluation Panel for the Singapore National Research Foundation. Peter holds a Diploma in Management Studies from the University of Chicago and an Executive MBA Degree from the Golden Gate University, San Francisco.

Peter Weber
Non-executive Director
Peter joined Dialog on 1 February 2006. He brought with him 35 years’ experience, gained at a broad range of companies in the semiconductor sector, including Texas Instruments, Intel, Siliconix, the Temic Group and Netro Corporation. Since 1998 he has been an investor and management consultant, and is a director of a number of companies in Europe and the US. Peter holds an MSEE degree in communications engineering.