Stephen Saltzman
Board Member
Portland, Oregon
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director, Strategic Investments
2002 - 2018
• Drove the strategy for Intel to use microLED displays to leap-frog OLED displays on everything from VR headsets to PCs. Evangelized the adoption of microLEDs throughout Intel and sourced and secured a three-year joint R&D, IP licensing, and business collaboration agreement with Aledia in France, which also included a large investment to fund the collaboration. • Formed alliances with (and invested in) EETI in Taiwan, FlatFrog in Sweden, and Nuovo Film in China to drive down the cost of touchscreens from $7/inch to $0.25/inch in 5 years. • Drove a change in Intel’s VR strategy to prioritize stimulating the location-based VR market and “habit-forming content” to accelerate broader consumer adoption, then led investments in SoReal in China and Vreal in the US to deliver on those strategies. • Core contributor to pan-Intel task force on Cloud Gaming, which led to a multi-year technical alliance with (and pending investment in) a startup with a unique architecture that provides a 10x cost advantage. • Portfolio exits include 3eTI (EF Johnson), AeroScout (Stanley Black & Decker), AirMagnet (Danaher), EETI (Taiwan Exchange IPO: 3556), InVisage (Apple), IPass (Nasdaq IPO: IPAS), Jajah (Telefonica) RapidBridge (Qualcomm), SyChip (Murata) and Vocera (Nasdaq IPO: VCRA).
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Founder & General Manager, Wi-Fi Division
1998 - 2002
• Identified the opportunity for Intel to expand its Ethernet business into wireless networking, then made the business case to create Intel’s Wi-Fi division, as well as the strategy to jump start that effort via a multi-year joint development and IP licensing agreement with Symbol Technologies secured with a $100M investment plus even more in internal Intel funding. • Made the business case for Intel to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to include Intel’s Wi-Fi chipset in the Centrino launch and stimulate the public Wi-Fi hotspot ecosystem. These actions catalyzed the Wi-Fi market and made it a standard feature of laptops, phones, etc. And the number of public Wi-Fi hotspots grew from ~3,000 to over 150,000 in under three years.
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Founder and CEO
1995 - 1998
• Conceived and created the UX design for a line children’s educational CD-ROMS that received numerous top reviews and honors from the consumer, computer and education press, including Time, Newsweek, the AP, and CNN.
CEO
1989 - 1994
• Created what was under my watch the largest Macintosh-only software publisher in the world. • Generated five consecutive years of over 100% compound annual growth in both sales and profits.
Sr. Product Manager
1986 - 1989
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Account Executive
1984 - 1985
Asst. Account Executive
1982 - 1984
Global brand Strategy, Advertising, Customer Engagement and Commerce, PR and Influence, Digital Transformation, and Partnerships.