Volker Politz
Volker Politz is the Chief Sales officer at Semidynamics, responsible for all IP sales and business development activities as well as product marketing. Prior to this, he was VP sales at Roviero, held EU Sales and Global Auto Business management positions in Verisilicon and worked as IP sales manager in Synopsys Europe. He was Vice President of Product and Segment Marketing at Imagination Technologies. He is an international marketing, business development and management executive with over 30 years’ experience in semiconductor and technology companies. He also held roles and responsibilities in Europe, Asia and the United States with experience built from engineering, marketing, sales, and general management positions at Hitachi and Renesas. He has broad know-how in vertical domains such as digital multimedia, broadcast technologies, automotive, industrial, mobile, security and AI. Volker holds a Masters engineering degree in communication electronics from Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany and an MBA from Open University, United Kingdom.
Marc Evans
Marc Evans is a semiconductor executive with deep expertise in CPU and DSP IP and SoC architecture. At Andes Technology USA, he leads branding, go-to-market strategy, and strategic partnerships for Andes and its high-performance RISC-V subsidiary, Condor Computing.
He began his career in processor and memory system design at Amdahl, Hewlett-Packard, and Rambus, and was an early R&D team member at Tensilica. He later held leadership roles at Tensilica and CEVA, driving IP adoption across global accounts. Marc holds a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Ian Smythe
Ian Smythe is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Baya. He recently joined Baya and brings over 25 years of international experience leading business groups and technology teams. Ian has a background in developing and implementing marketing strategies for major technology companies.
Before joining Baya, Ian was Vice President of Product Marketing at Arm, where he served on the leadership team and oversaw all product marketing activities across business areas. He led the team responsible for messaging around Arm’s recent IPO.
Ian has built relationships within the compute ecosystem and has extensive experience working with partners to understand changing compute needs that inform future product strategies. His expertise spans multiple market sectors and technologies, including CPU, graphics, data centre, mobile, automotive, IoT and Edge, open-source software stacks, and AI.
He began his tenure at Arm in 2009 as Director of Marketing for the Media Processing Group (MPG), focusing on the development and launch of the Arm Mali GPU, which became the world’s best-selling GPU. Prior to this, Ian held senior roles in marketing and engineering at companies which include a leading semiconductor vendor and a DSP start-up.