Sam co-founded Ausdia, and drove the early product planning, product development and market analysis for Timevision. Prior to Ausdia, Sam held a variety of technical leadership roles at Azul Systems, Reshape, Cosine Communications and Silicon Graphics. At Azul Systems, Sam drove the implementation & physical methodology for three generations of custom SMP procesors, from 500 to 900Mhz and 1.2B transistors.

Sam received a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Adelaide, focussed on high-performance asynchronous circuit & logic design. He has personally been involved in more than 20 tapeouts from 1um to 28nm.

At Nvidia, Atul was responsible for timing signoff of chipset and integrated graphics products. At Reshape, he was the key timing resource for the "silicon factory" production team. At Azul Systems, he was responsible for timing integration and signoff of three generations of SMP processor SOCs.