Hojjat Salemi

Mr. Salemi has been working in the high‐tech field for more than 35 years. His background is in Systems and Semiconductor development. Prior to joining Ranovus, he was the VP of Optical Transport at Inphi in Silicon Valley. He joined Inphi after Cortina Systems was acquired, reporting directly to the CEO. He was instrumental on the success of Cortina’s acquisition into Inphi. Prior to Inphi, he was a co-founder of Cortina Systems in Santa Clara, CA. He was responsible for the P&L and growth of the Optical & Data Center Business Unit. During this time, he was also responsible for M&A and due diligence of several startups and established business units that Cortina acquired.

Prior to Cortina, Mr. Salemi was the CTO of Skystone, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in WAN connectivity for IP & Ethernet Datacom systems. Skystone was acquired by Cisco Systems, and it was the first acquisition of Cisco outside the US market. Before Skystone, he held various technical and management roles in Mitel, Fitel-PMX, NewBridge, and Nortel Networks. He was responsible for delivering Systems and VLSI chips for several different applications, IP, MPLS, frame relay, ATM, IP over WDM networks.

Mr. Salemi received a Bachelor and Master of Engineering at Ottawa University. In 2010 he was honored with the 2010 Faculty of Engineering Alumni Award of Excellence from Ottawa University. He also holds several patents on a variety of topics relating to Systems and Semiconductor design.