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The silicon the rest of the system is built around
Compute, power, and analog are the chips every other layer assumes will be there, and the operators who design and scale them have always been at the core of what we do. This is where the firm started, so these are some of our oldest relationships.
Most-placed roles in this industry
Photonics became strategic almost overnight
Optical interconnect is what unlocks bandwidth inside an AI data center, which turned a quiet engineering discipline into one of the hottest corners of hardware. We have been working with this community since long before that happened, from the incumbents to the startups now racing them.
Most-placed roles in this industry
The longest-horizon business in technology
A fab takes years and billions before it makes a single sellable wafer, and every gain in node, packaging, and power electronics traces back to a materials breakthrough someone had to make manufacturable first. The reshoring push has every new project chasing the same handful of people who have run that gauntlet, and we have placed across IDMs, equipment makers, and the materials companies behind them since the firm's early days.
Most-placed roles in this industry
HBM moved to the center of the AI stack
High-bandwidth memory is now one of the products that decides whether an AI system ships on time, and the people who can run it hold device physics, fab economics, and the hyperscaler buyer in one head. That combination is rare, and it is one we have spent years mapping.
Most-placed roles in this industry
Demand is no longer the hard part
There is more appetite for capacity than the industry can build, and increasingly the gate is power, not land or chips. So the constraint has shifted to the operators who can site, energize, and stand up facilities on AI's timeline. We work across the builders, the colocation platforms, and the sponsors behind them.
Most-placed roles in this industry
5G, RF, and the spectrum everything runs on
RF is some of the most specialized engineering in hardware, and it spans handsets, infrastructure, defense, and IoT, so the right leader for one corner is often wrong for the next. Sorting that out is most of the job, and it is the part we are good at.
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DecisionHR Hires New Chief Revenue Officer
Josh McIntosh Appointed as Chief Revenue Officer at DecisionHR
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Power Integrations Appoints New Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Power Integrations Names Mike Balow Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales
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Safe Software Appoints New Chief Financial Officer
Safe Software bolsters leadership team with CFO appointment to drive next phase of growth
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Ready Rebound Appoints New President and Chief Revenue Officer
Ready Rebound Names Jim Tarantino as President and Chief Revenue Officer
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Wagepoint Names New Chief Commercial Officer
Wagepoint Appoints Alexander Gonçalves as Chief Commercial Officer to Accelerate Next Phase of …
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Diebold Nixdorf Appoints New Chief Information Officer
Diebold Nixdorf Names Raj Singh as Chief Information Officer
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