Pirooz Parvarandeh has served as our Chief Operating Officer since January 2018. He served as Advisor at Sarda Mr. Parvarandeh has more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. From February 2015 to January 2018, Mr. Parvarandeh served in senior advisory and consulting roles across a broad range of technologies including Roche's DNA sequencing unit, as well as multiple startups in the biotech, semiconductor, software and systems sectors. From July 1987 to February 2015, Mr. Parvarandeh held technical and management positions at Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. including being their first Chief Technology Officer from September 2010 to February 2015 and being their Group President from May 2005 to September 2011. Pirooz completed his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and holds more than 28 issued and pending patents.