Cavendish Kinetics Board of Directors
Luis Arzubi
Chairman
Luis Arzubi is a general partner of Tallwood Venture Capital. His vast past experience –more than 30 years in various engineering, management and executive roles with IBM – brings a distinctive and valuable technologist and customer point of view to Tallwood’s practice.
Before joining Tallwood, Mr. Arzubi was a member of the executive team of IBM’s Microelectronics division, where he most recently served as Vice President and General Manager for the division, responsible for all the semiconductor business segments. During the 1990s he played the key role in moving IBM’s microelectronics into the OEM business and making it succeed. Earlier in his career, Mr. Arzubi was the General Manger for IBM’s Burlington, Vermont, site, where he was responsible for two mega fabs and the development lab. From 1986 through 1991, he was Lab Director at IBM’s General Technology division, leading all of IBM’s non-bipolar semiconductor technologies and product development activities.
In addition to Cavendish Kinetics, Mr. Arzubi currently serves on the boards of directors of Qspeed Semiconductor, Sandbridge Technologies and SVTC Technologies. He is the inventor of five key memory patents and has published more than two dozen technical papers. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from the National University of Littoral in Argentina.
Moiz M. Beguwala, Ph.D.
Moiz M. Beguwala serves as a director on the boards of Skyworks Solutions Inc., Powerwave Technologies, Inc. and RF Nano in addition to Cavendish Kinetics. He also serves on the Audit and Nominating & Governance Committee at Skyworks and the Compensation Committee at Powerwave, and he is Chairman of the Board of RF Nano.
Dr. Beguwala retired from Conexant in 2002 and served as a consultant to the CEO until 2007. At Conexant he served as a Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless Communications Division from January 1999 to June 2002, where he was responsible for a three-fold increase in revenue, from $160M to $450M. Prior to Conexant’s spin-off from Rockwell International Corporation, Dr. Beguwala was with Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, holding the posts of Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless Communications Division, Vice President and General Manager of the Personal Computing Division and Vice President, Worldwide Sales. He also served as a Principal Scientist and Director of Research for Rockwell Electronics Research Division. He joined Rockwell International in 1973 as member of the technical staff.
Dr. Beguwala received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (magna cum laude) from UCLA and a master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from USC. He also received an Executive MBA degree from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He attended a certification course at UCLA for directors and officers, as well as a certification course conducted by UC Irvine and the Forum of Corporate Directors. He has been active with the Forum for Corporate Directors (FCD) in the area of corporate governance.
Dr. Beguwala has served on several administrative and technical committees of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), and he is the author of several technical papers and three U.S. patents. During his academic career he was elected to membership in Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Bart Markus
Bart Markus joined Wellington Partners in April 2000. He concentrates on investments in the fields of software and electronics and is currently managing the firm’s investments in Agnion, Enecsys, EnOcean, EnStorage, GLO, and Replisaurus, in addition to Cavendish Kinetics. During his involvement, former Wellington portfolio companies Covast (initially based in the Netherlands) and Meiosys (initially based in France) relocated their commercial operations to the United States to further accelerate their growth.
Mr. Markus began his career as a process control systems and later project engineer with Shell in Norway. In 1995 he joined McKinsey as an associate, working mainly on strategic projects in the Netherlands and South Africa. After earning his MBA in 1997, he worked for HAL Investments as a private equity investment manager with a special focus on new technologies. One of his early investments was the Series A investment in Navteq (NASDAQ: NVT). In late 1999, Mr. Markus set up and acted as interim CEO for ePearle, a B2C eCommerce company and one of HAL Investments’ retail portfolio companies. He also was one of the founders of the MRI Center in Amsterdam, now a chain of private medical diagnostic clinics.
Mr. Markus holds a master’s degree in engineering in applied physics from Twente University in The Netherlands and an MBA from INSEAD.
Paul Dal Santo
Paul Dal Santo became a board member for Cavendish Kinetics in November of 2010 and comes with more than 30 years of broad international engineering and executive management expertise.
Most recently, Mr. Dal Santo was the Chief Operating Officer for Silicon Image, a fabless semiconductor company focused on the storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition content with a worldwide customer base. He was responsible for directing the company’s engineering, operations, marketing, sales, and business development functions.
Prior to this he worked in Toronto for AMD and was the Vice President and General Manager for the Handheld Products Group, focusing on the design of media processors for cellular phones and supplying all of the major cellular OEMs. AMD acquired ATI Technologies, where Mr. Dal Santo had previously held this same position.
The vast majority of his career was with Motorola in Chicago, where he started as an engineer working on the world’s first cellular telephone. This “startup group” inside of Motorola eventually became the most profitable part of Motorola, and Mr. Dal Santo served as VP of Engineering in several different roles, driving architectural technology decisions and managing several cellular product lines.
Mr. Dal Santo holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University and a Master of Science degree from Illinois Institute of technology, both in electrical engineering.
Dennis Yost
President and CEO
Dennis Yost joined Cavendish Kinetics in 2007 as CEO, after serving a year on the company’s Board of Directors. Before joining Cavendish Kinetics, Mr. Yost was Vice President and General Manager of the CMP (chemical mechanical polishing) business unit at Novellus Systems Inc. Before that, he was Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Lightpath Technologies, and General Manager and Managing Director at Applied Materials Corp. Earlier, he held various engineering management and engineering positions with Texas Instruments Corp. (TI), including engineering manager in the Digital Light Products Components group. He also worked as a process engineer for Intel Corp. Mr. Yost holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.
