Tim Ryan

Part of TranSwitch Corp., Avio Digital, Inc. provides silicon solutions for digital home networking to worldwide manufacturers. The company is based in San Carlos, CA. The company was founded by Tim Ryan. Avio Digital was acquired by Centillium Communications, Inc., part of TranSwitch Corp. from October 27, 2008 on June 29, 2000.

Centillium Communications, Inc. designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable system-on-a-chip solutions that enable high-speed broadband access. Its products include passive optical network chip solutions; mixed-signal integrated circuits, hardware and software applications. The firm also offers fiber to the premises products that include central office transceivers, protocol processors, customer premise equipment transceivers and protocol processors. The company was founded in 1997 by Faraj Aalaei and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Optichron, Inc. develops semiconductor and mixed signal integrated circuits. It focuses on a significant technology challenge-a solution to the performance bottleneck caused by nonlinear distortion, a long-standing engineering barrier in many industries relying on signal processing technologies. The company was founded by Roy Batruni, Tim Ryan and Ravi Ramachandran in 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.