In the beginning...

Chris Pettey, Clayton Newman, Art Arizpe, Larry Rubin and Rick Pekkala founded Banderacom as INH Semiconductor in November, 1999 and incorporated in December 1999. Mr. Pettey, Mr. Newman, Mr. Arizpe and Mr. Rubin were all senior members of the technical staff at Jato Technologies, a successful networking silicon start-up now owned by Intel Corporation. The founders also held previous senior positions at Intel, Compaq and Motorola. Rick Pekkala was most recently a senior member of the technical staff for Centaur Systems and held senior engineering position at Motorola prior to co-founding INH.

In August, 2000, INH-Semiconductor took on the official name of Banderacom as an emerging fabless semiconductor team focused on success in the InfiniBand semiconductor arena.

Meeting the management team...

Les Crudele
President and Chief Executive Officer
Les Crudele joined Banderacom as CEO effective, November 15, 2000. Mr. Crudele served on the board of directors of Quantum Effect Devices (QED), a fabless semiconductor company focused on high-performance MIPS embedded microprocessors for the networking industry. He helped to oversee QED's management operations and played a key role in all aspects of the company's corporate strategy. Prior to QED, Crudele served as vice president and general manager of the Workstation Division, Enterprise Computing Group at Compaq Computer in Houston, Texas. Under Crudele's leadership the workstation business grew from $40 million to over $400 million in revenue and went from a point product to a full line of workstations. Crudele also held several positions at Motorola, Inc. in the Semiconductor Product Sector and in the Communications Division: vice president and general manager of the RISC Division that developed the PowerPC processors; assistant general manager of the High End Computing Division for MC68000 and MC88000; and chief architect for 68008, 68010 and 68020 products.

Chris Pettey
Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer
Prior to founding Banderacom, Mr. Pettey was a SMTS for Jato Technologies, a fabless semiconductor startup developing Gigabit Ethernet controller silicon. Formerly a SMTS for Compaq Enterprise Computing Division, Chris has been involved in the development of many large scale networking and server architecture platforms. He holds 9 patents, including joint holding of the Registered Bus Protocol patent, key to the PCI-X Specification. Chris has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Central Florida.

Phill Grove
Vice President of Marketing
Phill joined Motorola in 1988 as an ASIC applications engineer based in New York. In 1991, he joined Motorola's Federal Segment in Washington, D.C. to develop and support product proposals for military electronics customers and programs and in 1994 became Director of Motorola Semiconductor's switching and transmission vertical marketing organization. Phill moved to Austin, Texas in 1995 to become Director of Wired Communications market development managing a team responsible for marketing semiconductor products and system systems for networking applications.

Phill became Director of Communications and Marketing of Motorola’s $3B Networking and Computing Systems Group in 1998. Phill’s career began in 1986 as a design engineer and programmer for Home Control Systems in Hauppauge, N.Y. after graduating from George Washington University with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.