Gil Amelio, Partner. Gil has over 35 years high technology experience, 26 years of P&L management, and 6 years of venture capital experience.  He has held top executive responsibility at several billion-dollar global corporations.

Gil was Chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, President of Rockwell International, Chairman, President & CEO of National Semiconductor Corporation, and Chairman and CEO of Jazz Technologies.  Earlier in his career, he worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International.  He led the seminal work on the CCD imager and holds patents on related inventions. He has also been a Senior Partner at Sienna Ventures, a technology venture-capital firm focused on semiconductors, photonics, and IT infrastructure investments where he led a number of successful venture capital investments. 

He is currently the senior member of the Board of Directors of AT&T Inc. He was elected a Director of AT&T in February 2001 and had previously served as an Advisory Director of AT&T (then known as SBC Communications Inc.). Gil has been a Director of Pacific Telesis, Chiron, Sematech, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board (as chairman), the American Film Institute and several private technology companies.  He is a former Director and Chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association.  Since 1996, he has been an advisor to Malaysia's Prime Minister  and to the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor.

Gil received a Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow and has been awarded 16 patents.