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Directors

Eileen Tanghal

tanghal@alum.mit.edu

Eileen Tanghal was appointed director for Applied Ventures, the venture capital firm of Applied Materials, Inc., in July 2008, where she is responsible for identifying, recommending and managing venture capital investments.
Tanghal has a diverse background combining more then 10 years of experience with early stage venture capital-backed companies in the US and Europe, as an engineer, product manager, and venture capitalist. She previously served as an investment director in the London office of Kennet Partners, a private equity firm, where she led and co-led the firm's investment in fabless semiconductor companies Sequans Communications and STS, for which she served as a board director. Prior to this, Tanghal was an associate with Amadeus Capital Partners Limited from 2002 to 2005, where she led due diligence and deal execution activities for potential and existing portfolio companies and acted as an observer on the boards of fabless semiconductor company Artimi, Inc., fiber laser company SPI Lasers Plc, and flexible display company Plastic Logic Limited. From 1997 to 2000, she worked at PDF Solutions, Inc., where she was one of the first yield ramp engineers. She has also held various product and program management roles within AllAdvantage and Openwave Systems, Inc.
Tanghal holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School.

Erica Brand

 erica24@alum.mit.edu

Erica Brand has over 13 years of experience running and developing Electronic Design Automation tools. Erica worked as a Program Management Director at EDA supplier Cadence Design Systems supporting semiconductor companies designing with aggressive techniques, process nodes, and development cycles. She also managed consolidation customer partnership across the entire Cadence portfolio. Erica has written articles and white papers on DFM and chip design at 45nm. She joined Cadence in June 2005 in the DFM organization. Prior to joining Cadence, Erica worked at PMC-Sierra and start-up Quantum Effect Design where she managed custom layout and tapeout efforts for MIPS microprocessors. She managed tapeout and process migration from 0.35 micron to 90nm designs at multiple foundries. She also worked on internal tool development and deploy. Erica hold a B.S. from MIT and an M.S. from Stanford University.