Professor Asad Abidi
Since 1985 Asad A. Abidi has served the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles as a professor. Dr. Abidi is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Previously he was a member of the technical staff in the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. and served as a Visiting Faculty Research at Hewlett Packard Laboratories. He is a recipient of many awards, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and was named one of the top 10 contributors to the ISSCC. He earned a B.S. degree with honors from Imperial College, London and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Buck Gee
Buck Gee is Vice President of Cisco Systems Data Center Business Unit. Buck joined Cisco when Cisco acquired Andiamo System where he was a founder and CEO. Prior to founding Andiamo, Buck was Vice President of Marketing at Com21. Prior to joining Com21, Buck spent 17 years in the data networking industry working at Cisco Systems, Crescendo Communications (acquired by Cisco Systems), and 3Com in various marketing and business development positions. He also held computer engineering and marketing positions at Hewlett-Packard Company and National Semiconductor Corp. He received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and both a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.