Full Name
Gary Forni
Name of ACA member affiliation or organization
Central Texas Angel Network
Speaker Bio
Gary Forni, CTAN's Board Chairman, is focused on starting, mentoring, investing in, and growing startups in Central Texas. As an investor, his focus is innovation and disruptive technology. As a member of the business community, he works with accelerators to maximize the success of entrepreneurs at Capital Factory, TechStars, Austin Technology Incubator, and as a founding investor and mentor in SKU. As an entrepreneur, he has worked to bring eight new businesses to market.
In the distant past, he was an executive at Marvell Semiconductor and Intel Corp. At Intel, he was part of starting four new businesses, including the flash memory business, which exited for $1.2B, and the XScale cellular business, which exited for $600M. At the industry level, Mr. Forni has published over twenty articles and papers, chaired standardization committees, and co-authored a book on flash memory technology. Gary picked up a BS ECE more than a few years ago and still has the computer punch cards to prove it, as well as an MBA, just in case that programming stuff was a fad.
In the distant past, he was an executive at Marvell Semiconductor and Intel Corp. At Intel, he was part of starting four new businesses, including the flash memory business, which exited for $1.2B, and the XScale cellular business, which exited for $600M. At the industry level, Mr. Forni has published over twenty articles and papers, chaired standardization committees, and co-authored a book on flash memory technology. Gary picked up a BS ECE more than a few years ago and still has the computer punch cards to prove it, as well as an MBA, just in case that programming stuff was a fad.
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