Leadership Team
Jim Venable
President
Jim Venable has more than 25 years experience in the semiconductor and IP industry, with extensive experience in
engineering, marketing and business development. He has held senior management positions with Motorola, Mentor
Graphics, Hitachi, Sharp and AMD, where he was responsible for product strategy and market development. Most
recently, at Silicon Image, Venable was responsible for driving the company’s emerging advanced memory IP products
into the mobile and consumer electronics market segments. He has appeared on numerous industry panels and
spoken at many events, including Embedded Systems Conference, MemCon, and IP conferences worldwide. Venable
received his degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University.