Antonio J. Viana

In addition to serving as a non-executive Chair of the Brainchip board of directors and as a member of the Audit & Risk and Remuneration & Nominations committees, Mr. Viana is also a non-executive Director of Arteris Inc., a leading provider of network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect and other SOC-Fabric intellectual property (IP). Mr. Viana also chairs the Nomination and Governance committee for Arteris Inc. and is a member of both the Audit and Renumeration committees. In 1999, Mr. Viana joined ARM Holdings, the global leader in semiconductor IP, serving in a number of leadership positions, most notably as the Global Director of the ARM Foundry Program and President of Commercial and Global Development. He was appointed to the ARM executive team as Executive VP of worldwide sales in 2008. At the beginning of 2013, his executive duties were expanded to include all of commercial and global development. Mr. Viana has also worked with Hughes Aircraft, Silicon Graphics, Encore Industries and was Senior VP of worldwide sales at Tensilica Inc. Most recently, Mr. Viana served as the Executive Chairman of QuantalRF AG, an emerging Swiss RF semiconductor company developing transformative wireless communication solutions.