Juan-Antonio Carballo

Current

• Partner, Venture Capital Group at IBM

Past

• Co-founder and Partner at Argon Venture Partners
• Head of Adaptive Communications Research at IBM

Education

• University of Michigan
• College des Ingenieurs
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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Connections

455 connections

Industry

Semiconductors

Websites

• New Book on Chip Design

Juan-Antonio Carballo’s Summary

Main goal: to drive tangible cross-border venture-capital results, leading industry direction, investment, and product revenue.

In addition to forming Argon, I lead IBM's Venture Capital direction in semiconductors, hardware, and China, creating and running several first-time VC partnership initiatives around open platforms with dozens of firms and start-ups. I have been a technologist for about 20 years, producing 20+ patents, revenue-generating product designs, and first-time partnership initiatives. I have also led industry-wide initiatives such as the first quantified chip design industry roadmap. I have previously lead IBM's efforts in adaptive communications research, and have had prior stays in DEC, LSI Logic, Accenture, Carnegie Mellon, and Electricite de France. I have also written numerous articles, plus a widely distributed book called "Chip Design for Non-Designers: An Introduction": http://store.pennwellbooks.com/chdefornoin.html.

Juan-Antonio Carballo’s Experience

• Partner, Venture Capital Group

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  Responsible for VC operations in semiconductors, custom hardware, and China.

• Co-founder and Partner

  Argon Venture Partners

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  December 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Early-stage technology Venture Capital firm focused on Western Canada and US

• Head of Adaptive Communications Research

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Hardware industry)

  2000 — 2004 (4 years)

Juan-Antonio Carballo’s Education

• University of Michigan

  Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997 — 2000

  First year pursued at Carnegie Mellon University.

• College des Ingenieurs

  M.B.A., Business Administration, 1994 — 1995

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

  M.Sc., Telecommunications Engineering

Additional Information

Juan-Antonio Carballo’s Websites:

• New Book on Chip Design

Juan-Antonio Carballo’s Groups:

Chair, IEEE Design Automation Technical Committee (DATC)
Chair, International Design Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS-D)
Publicity Chair and Executive Committee Member, IEEE ICCAD

•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    Michigan Engineering
•    ETSIT Alumni

Juan-Antonio Carballo’s Honors:

American Venture Magazine, Top 40 Under 40

Juan-Antonio Carballo’s Contact Settings

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