Camgian's Board of Directors
Dr. Gary Butler
Dr. Butler is the Founder, President and CEO of Camgian Microsystems. Dr. Butler received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Cambridge University and is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Prior to founding Camgian, Dr. Butler was a Division Engineer at BBN Technologies (formerly Bolt, Beranek and Newman, the company credited with launching the ARPANET) where he was the principle investigator on several DARPA and ONR funded advanced technology development programs in the areas of low power, long-endurance unattended ground sensor networks, ultra-wideband communications and radar, and advanced signal processing technologies.
Additionally, he supported the development of situational understanding technologies for the Army's Future Combat Systems Program and successfully established technology transition programs with the US Special Operations Command and the Army's Program Manager for Robotics and Unmanned Sensors. Dr. Butler also led the capture of a number of competitively awarded government contracts and received BBN's Best DARPA Revenue Award for 2004.
He has co-authored journal articles and conference papers on the application of wavelets to signal analysis. He has also co-invented patents and pending patents on the application of genetic algorithms to signal classification and multi-static ultra-wideband radar signal processing. Dr. Butler has been a speaker at DARPA and industry workshops on the subject of low power sensor networks and is a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Butler received his B.S. degree from Tulane University in Mechanical Engineering, where he was a four-time varsity football letterman and named an NCAA and Entergy Corporation Winning for Life Scholar Athlete. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University.
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.