Camgian's Board of Directors
Dr. Gary Butler
Dr. Gary D. Butler is the founder, president and chief executive officer of Camgian Microsystems Corporation. Since its formation in 2006, Dr. Butler has led the development and execution of the company's business strategy, which has included two acquisitions. These include fabless semiconductor company Theseus Logic, a leader in asynchronous integrated circuit technologies, and an engineering group and design facility of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. He has also established strategic relationships with a number of large corporate partners, including Camgian's selection as a protégé company to DRS Technologies, one of the world's largest suppliers of advanced military electronic systems.
Today, Camgian has corporate offices in two states, annual multi-million dollar revenues and technology development efforts in areas related to advanced embedded networking technologies and ultra-low power integrated circuits supported by organizations such as the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Camgian's current intellectual property portfolio includes more than twenty patents in the area of advanced low-power semiconductor technologies. In 2009, Camgian received the Governor's Cup Award from the Mississippi Development Authority, was named as one of Mississippi's Companies to Watch by the Mississippi Technology Alliance and the Edwin Lowe Foundation and was listed as one of Mississippi's top 100 private companies by the Mississippi Business Journal.
Prior to founding Camgian, Dr. Butler was a senior staff member in the Washington, DC office of Internet pioneer BBN Technologies where he led technology development programs in the areas of advanced networks, ultra-wideband communications and radar, and signal processing technologies. At BBN, Dr. Butler was elected for membership in the company's senior science organization, a rank representing approximately the top 10% of the research and development staff, received BBN's annual best DARPA revenue award, and was elected as a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Over his career, he has captured and led research programs totaling more than $25M in funding, co-authored publications on the application of wavelets to signal analysis and has been awarded patents related to the application of genetic algorithms to signal classification and multi-static ultra-wideband radar signal processing.
Dr. Butler received his PhD from the University of Cambridge where he studied engineering and was a member of Churchill College. He received the Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS degree in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University and a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Tulane University. At Tulane, Dr. Butler was a scholarship athlete, a four-time varsity football letterman, and named an NCAA and Entergy Corporation Winning for Life Scholar Athlete.
Mr. Gene Josephs
Mr. Josephs graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1962 with a BS in Physics. Graduated 1966 from New York University with an MBA in Management and Finance. Worked four years at RCA Corporation as a design engineer. Mr. Josephs then worked for IBM Corporation for 31 years holding various positions including systems engineer, marketing representative, financial programs manager within state/local government, product staff and field marketing management; the last 15 years of which as Senior Branch Manager of all large system customers headquartered in Orlando.
From 1998 to present, Mr. Josephs has been the President of Investment Partners of Orlando (IPO) a Venture Capital firm with investments primarily in high technology companies. From 1999 to present, he has been the CEO of IIS, LLC a systems software company, and from 2000 to present, CEO of GlobalSys Services, Inc., an offshore programming services company.
Mr. Josephs has served on the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Central Florida, First Nation Bank of Seminole County and First Mercantile National Bank where he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee. He has served on the board of various non-profit Orlando based organizations in leadership chair positions. He has recently been on the board of several high technology companies in Central Florida including Milcom Technology, Meshnetwork, Theseus Logic and currently Gemesis Corporation and Camgian.
Mr. John Stockton
Mr. Stockton is a semiconductor industry veteran currently focusing on development-stage companies in the fields of semiconductors, MEMS, Intellectual Property and EDA. Since 2005, he spends most of his time as a venture partner with Mayfield, a top-ranked venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. When not in California working with Mayfield, Mr. Stockton works in Austin, Texas with Hunt Ventures.
Prior to working with Mayfield, Mr. Stockton was chairman and interim-CEO of ARC International plc (London, UK) a semiconductor intellectual property company. He was also the CEO of Synergy Semiconductor (high speed bipolar ICs), CEO of Stream Machine (MPEG-2 CODEC company), and has served as a senior executive of several high technology companies.
Prior to being a small-company entrepreneur, Mr. Stockton was a VLSI-Fellow at VLSI Technology, Inc., where he co-created the PC Chip-Set Division of VLSI and organized ARM Ltd., a UK-based processor design and intellectual property licensing company.
John Stockton serves as an independent director on the boards of directors of DAFCA (Chairman) and Sirific Wireless. He is assisting on the board of LV Sensors and was previously on the boards of Theseus Logic and Arteris.