Prior to co-founding ANAFLASH, Peter played pivotal roles in the nonvolatile memory and storage industry for more than 15 years. Notably, he was the founding member of the 4-bits/cell NAND flash memory controller team at Samsung Electronics, contributing to the development of the industry leading SSD product. Additionally, Peter performed a foundation research of low latency NVM based SSD and intelligent storage at HGST later acquired by Western Digital. He also served as the global enterprise SSD performance engineer, collaborating with teams in the US, Europe, and Korea at SK Hynix Memory Solutions America. His efforts contributed to the successful commercialization of enterprise-grade SSD products based on 4D-NAND flash memory.
Dr. Peter Song received a PhD degree majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering and minoring in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He received the Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications and was honored as the winner of the Low Power Design Contest at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design.
With nearly 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Shahrzad specializes in mixed-signal circuits and data converters. She had demonstrated exceptional technology leadership as the CEO and co-founder of Legato Logic before joining ANAFLASH. Prior to founding Legato Logic, Shahrzad held various positions at prominent organizations including Cadence Design Systems, Cirrus Logic, IBM, Tektronix, and Nusemi—a startup that was acquired by Cadence. In addition to her industry roles, she has contributed to the academic community as an associate editor for Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS-II). She has also served on the technical program committees for the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and is currently a member of the Technical Program Committee at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
Dr. Shahrzad Naraghi holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, an M.Sc. from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she was honored as a Barbour Scholar.
R. Scott Hills has an extensive background in the semiconductor industry and worked at several Intellectual Property (IP) companies including ARC International, Cortus, and Seamless Devices/Microsystems. Along with working at Integrated Circuit (IC) companies AMD, VLSI, IC Media, Dialog Semiconductor/Renesas, SEMICOA, and Mobius Microsystems/IDT/Renesas.
Mr. Hills has a board business acumen from working at early-stage startups in various Executive positions in Sales, Marketing, and Business Development along with co-ownership. His technical knowledge was gained from architecture and design of Central Processing Units at NCR Corporation and Computer Automation, Inc., and product marketing of minicomputers and ADA based microcomputers at Computer Automation and Western Digital.
Mr. Hills holds a BSEL degree from California Polytechnic State University and Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology.
She has more than 25 years of marketing experience from leading global semiconductor companies and public relations consulting firms.
Most recently, Sue served as head of marketing communications at Samsung Electronics in the United States. Previously, she held global marketing leadership roles at major semiconductor companies, including Marvell Semiconductor, Kilopass (later acquired by Synopsys), OSRAM Opto Semiconductor, and Renesas. In addition, she established the Korea operations for the Hoffman Agency, a global high-technology public relations firm.
Sue earned her bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from Kookmin University and has completed executive certificates at both Stanford Business School and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Under her leadership, ANAFLASH has secured multiple government research initiatives in Korea. She plays a pivotal role to spearhead the development and demonstration of the company's RCU from SoC architecture to full stack SW integration.
Prior to joining ANAFLASH, Nina served as an embedded systems engineer at Samsung Electronics and later contributed to the development of application and neuromorphic processors at LG Electronics, where she was deeply involved in system architecture design and software stack development.
Nina holds two Bachelor’s degrees—in Physics and Information Electronics Engineering—from Ewha Womans University, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.
Over the past two decades, Dr. Chokshi has invested in hundreds of companies and built an extensive network of corporate executives across a variety of industries, including semiconductors. On the private investment side, he has personally funded more than 30 seed-stage startups and advises many of them—facilitating introductions to angel and venture capital investors, as well as corporate executives. Samir currently serves as a Partner at Antara Capital LP, where he focuses on event-driven equity investments.
Dr. Chokshi began his career in 1998 as a corporate attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell, followed by a role as an M&A investment banker at Merrill Lynch. In 2002, he transitioned to the investment side, focusing on public equity investments in companies undergoing transformational changes such as mergers, leadership transitions, restructurings, and other strategic catalysts. Over the course of his career at several major hedge funds, Samir has consistently achieved performance results that surpassed key benchmarks. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and both a B.A. and M.A. in Accounting from the University of Florida. After law school, Dr. Chokshi clerked for Judge Carl Stewart of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
