Marco Jacobs

Current

• Director of Marketing, Multimedia at Virage Logic

Past

• Product Marketing Manager, Media Products at Silicon Hive
• Software Architect at Bosch Security Systems
• Director Applications Development at BOPS, Inc

• Applications Programmer II at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Consultant at Sibbel & Van Pelt New Media Consulting

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Education

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Technische Universiteit Delft

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Industry

Semiconductors

Marco Jacobs’s Summary

Specialist in development and sales/marketing of DSP processing solutions with a focus on audio, video and imaging applications.

Proven to function well in a wide variety of roles ranging from product management, marketing, business development, applications engineering, project management to group leader.

Marco Jacobs’s Specialties:

9+ years working for semiconductor IP companies, 10+ years working with RISC/VLIW/SIMD processor architectures and development tools, 10+ years experience in audio, video and imaging applications, led teams of 20+ engineers.

Marco Jacobs’s Experience

• Director of Marketing, Multimedia

  Virage Logic

  (Public Company; VIRL; Semiconductors industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

• Product Marketing Manager, Media Products

  Silicon Hive

  (Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

  January 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 9 months)

  Responsible for product marketing and product management for Silicon Hive’s media processing product line. Duties include: market research, defining new video/imaging products and demonstrators, identifying strategic partners and executing partnership agreements, developing marketing material and identifying, guiding and securing customers. Drove Silicon Hive's entry into mobile imaging and secured Silicon Hive's first mobile phone design win.

• Software Architect

  Bosch Security Systems

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  April 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 9 months)

• Director Applications Development

  BOPS, Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  June 1998 — April 2002 (3 years 11 months)

• Applications Programmer II

  University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  October 1996 — May 1998 (1 year 8 months)

• Consultant

  Sibbel & Van Pelt New Media Consulting

  (Semiconductors industry)

  1995 — 1995 (less than a year)

Marco Jacobs’s Education

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  1995 — 1996

  Worked on my Master's thesis here in the field of 3D graphics (virtual reality).
  See http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/us/

• Technische Universiteit Delft

  Computer Science 1990 — 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  Participated in the ACM programming contests at the national and European level.

Additional Information

Marco Jacobs’s Groups:

•    Mobile TV
•    Video Compression Experts
•    VentureOnLine Experts Network

Marco Jacobs’s Honors:

Holds 5 issued patents