Richard L. Sanquini is an early technology leader of Silicon Valley technology companies who is currently is Chairman of Pixelworks, Inc., Director Emeritus at Synaptics and an active board member of PreSwitch, R2 Semiconductor, Inc., Kuprion, Inc., IntraVu, and a Partner at LiteCap and Limited Partner at Sequoia and Alsop-Louie.
In his past career he was Chairman at Keyssa, Inc., General Manager of the Microprocessor Group at the RCA Corp., Executive Chairman for PortalPlayer, Inc., the company that developed the silicon and operating system for Apple's iPod, Chairman of Siport, President & Chief Executive Officer for Information Storage Devices, Inc., and Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President of Microprocessors at National Semiconductor Corp.
Richard L. Sanquini received an undergraduate degree from Milwaukee School of Engineering, Wisconsin.