Biography

Dr. Tewksbury has served as Chair of our Board since April 2024 and previously served as Executive Chairperson of our Board from February 2023 to April 2024. Dr. Tewksbury served as Velodyne’s Executive Officer from November 2021 until February 2023. Prior to that, he was CEO of Eta Compute, a provider of ultra-low power AI vision systems, from August 2019 to November 2021. Dr. Tewksbury has been a director of Maxlinear, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXL), a mixed-signal semiconductor company, since May 2015, where he chairs the Cybersecurity Committee and serves on the Audit and Nominating and Governance committees. From February 2017 to March 2019, Dr. Tewksbury was Chairman and CEO of Energy Focus, Inc., a provider of high-performance LED lighting solutions. Dr. Tewksbury was a director of Entropic Communications from September 2010 and CEO from November 2014 until MaxLinear’s acquisition of Entropic in April 2015. From 2013 to November 2014, he was an independent consultant to technology companies. From 2008 to 2013, Dr. Tewksbury served as CEO of Integrated Device Technology, Inc. and, from 2006 to 2008, was CEO of AMI Semiconductor, both of which were public semiconductor companies. Prior to that, he held management and engineering leadership roles at Maxim Integrated Products, IBM Microelectronics and Analog Devices. Dr. Tewksbury was a member of the board of directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) from March 2011 to August 2013. Dr. Tewksbury holds a B.S. in Architecture and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We believe that Dr. Tewksbury is qualified to serve as a member of our Board and as the Chair of our Board of Directors due to his industry knowledge and expensive experience as an executive and director for public technology companies.