Faraj Aalaei

Faraj Aalaei, an Iranian American serial entrepreneur and a 40-year veteran of the Communications and Networking industries, is currently the Founder & CEO at Cognichip, an AI company developing the world’s first Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI). As an entrepreneur Faraj has raised several hundred million dollars for his semiconductor companies from private and public investors, executed several M&A deals and as CEO taken two previous start-ups, Centillium and Aquantia through IPO. His last IPO, Aquantia, was acquired by Marvell Semiconductors where Faraj stayed on as Executive VP in charge of Marvell’s Networking and Automotive businesses, a billion dollar revenue segment and the largest business at Marvell. Prior to joining Marvell and Aquantia, Faraj was the Co-Founder CEO ...