Stewart Wu, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Recruited by Taiwania Capital (en.taiwaniacapital.com) & National Development Fund, Executive Yuan of Taiwan (www.df.gov.tw) to turn around one of their key investment for the 5G Semi initiative. Laser focus on the 5G O-RAN standard to become the disruptor/enabler for this explosive market.
Stewart Wu has been a serial entrepreneur, who has multiple successful exits for his startups. After his initial engineering career at Seattle Silicon, Chips & Technologies, Inc., Cirrus Logic, & Quality Semiconductors, Inc., Stewart founded Altima Communications, Inc. in 1997, which disrupted then 10/100 Fast Ethernet market with an innovative PHY IC. The company was acquired by Broadcom in just three years for US$550M. Stewart became Broadcom’s GM of SMB (Small & Medium Business) Business Unit, who also spearheaded Broadcom’s current Taiwan Operations.
In 2003, Stewart started Storm Semiconductors, Inc., which was again acquired by Cortina Systems in just five years. Stewart then led the effort to diversify the company becomes Cortina Access, which then sold to Realtek Inc. Cortina Access became a major 10 PON Carrier Gateway Router IC supplier under Stewart’s leadership, e.g., Cortina Access was the major IC supplier for Verizon’s major broadband router BHR-4 platform, which shipped over 10 million units in just three years.
Stewart holds MSEE & EE Ph.D. from University of Washington, Seattle, He received BSEE from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Stewart is received Honorary alumni from both universities, who also sits on the board of UW EE Department. Stewart sits on the board on a few private & public companies.