Mike Stauffer

Michael Stauffer has over 30 years electronics industry executive experience in applying leading edge technologies to develop new markets. His versatile experience includes international business development, marketing, sales, engineering and team building/management. He was a co-founder/early employee of

multiple startups and has created multiple new businesses within established companies. Most recently Mike spent 15 years at Qualcomm/Atheros in international business development, product marketing and sales roles, driving WiFi, BLE, 15.4, and machine learning technologies into the broadband access, consumer electronics and IoT markets. He joined Atheros pre-IPO to head business development for WiFi products. Prior to Qualcomm/Atheros, Mike's other roles included Head of Marketing at Zoran during its startup phase, engineering/marketing roles at AMD, founder of Digital Video Systems, a digital satellite set top box company that was the first supplier to BSkyB, Business Development at Compression Labs, where he was involved with creating DirecTV, and VP of Client Technology at IBlast Networks, a content delivery network over satellite and local digital TV channels. Mike earned a BSEE/CS degree from MIT and an MSEE degree from Stanford.