His World-Class Recognition
For the past few years, he has been consistently in Forbes’ Midas List and has been praised for having “developed advanced chip designs that helped put Silicon Valley on the map.”
In 1997, he received the prestigious Master Entrepreneur of the Year (in the US) award from Ernst & Young.
His Entrepreneurial Achievements
He is the managing partner and founder of Tallwood Venture Capital, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley with $500M+ under management. With his past experiences as an entrepreneur, he provides Tallwood with a unique perspective in technology investments. Tallwood invests in unique and hard-to-do semiconductor technology solutions for computing, communication, and consumer platforms.
Prior to forming Tallwood, he was a venture partner at the Mayfield Fund. He co-founded three technology startups: S3 (SBLU), Chips & Technologies (INTC) and Mostron. He also held positions in engineering and general management at National Semiconductor, Seeq Technologies, Intersil and Commodore International. He pioneered the PC chip set and graphics acceleration architecture that continue to be two of the foundation technologies in every PC today. As an engineer, he is credited with developing several key semiconductor technologies and is regarded as a Silicon Valley visionary.
He serves as Chairman of SiRF Technology (SIRF), InPhi Corporation, Quintic Corporation, Peleton, and Sequoia Communications and is on the boards of directors of Alphion Corporation, Redfern Integrated Optics, and T-RAM Semiconductor. He also served as Chairman and led investments in Marvell Technology Group (MRVL); Acclaim Communications, acquired by Level One (INTC); Newport Communications, acquired by Broadcom (BRCM); Cyras Systems, acquired by Ciena (CIEN); and Stream Machine, acquired by Cirrus Logic (CRUS).
He holds a B.S.E.E., cum laude, from the Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
His Early Days
He was born May 23, 1946 in Bo. Malabbac, Iguig, Cagayan and is popularly known by his nickname Dado. His hometown is about an eight-hour drive from Manila. His late father was a small rice farmer and was a humble family. The whole town was a farming community and so simple.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University.
First of the Firsts
He spearheaded on the following technologies:
- First single-chip, 16-bit microprocessor-based calculator (while at Commodore in 1976)
- First 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transreceiver chip; got 3Com into the Ethernet PC add-in card business (while at Seeq in early 1980s)
- First system logic chip set for the PC-XT and the PC-AT (while at Mostron in 1984 and Chips and Technologies in 1985)
- First enhanced graphics adapter chip set (while at Chips and Technologies in 1985)
Pioneered local bus concept for PC (while at S3 in 1989) - First Windows accelerator chip (while at S3 in 1990)
Chips and Technologies - initially acquired by Intel, now an Asilent Telechnologies brand
His Insight for the Philippines
"For the Philippines to advance economically, the country should be capable of creating a lot of technologies and globally competitive products. The Philippines has to go back to basics, make sure kids are being educated well in sciences and engineering. We cannot keep on blaming others. We Filipinos should change our educational emphasis, our cultural outlook."
He is...
Diosdado "Dado" Banato - considered as the "Bill Gates of the Philippines" and it was Ayala CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala who had said that "Dado has a tremendous mind."
Truly, he is an inspiring story for all Filipinos!
sources: ey.com, tallwoodvc.com, wikipedia.org, newsflash.org
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