David Chiang
Chairman and CEO
As the Founder of Sage-N Research, David has over 21 years of business development, marketing and engineering experience. Before founding Sage-N Research , he was employed by Xilinx, Inc., the world leader in the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) industry where he headed the Strategic Marketing Group and successfully launched the Virtex-2 product family, after heading the IC Design Engineering Group in the CPLD Division. Before joining Xilinx, he was a Senior Design Engineer for Altera Corporation, as well as for the Research Laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor. He is the inventor and co-inventor of 28 U.S. patents and numerous international patents, and holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Stanley Yang
Chief Financial Officer
Stanley has over 20 years of experience in executive management, corporate finance, business development, and manufacturing operations. Prior to joining Sage-N Research, he co-founded Triscend Corporation, a fabless IC company where he served as President and CEO, and later as Vice Chairman. He led the company through five rounds of private equity financing and raised a total of $68M. Prior to founding Triscend, he spent 11 years at Xilinx, Inc. where he held a variety of technical and management positions, including the head of the product engineering for the XC4000 product line. He is a co-inventor of a US patent on Configurable System–on-Chip architecture, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ali Pervez
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Ali has over 20 years of global Sales & Marketing experience and has done marketing projects in 22 different countries. He held a senior Marketing position at Abbott Laboratories, where he won two Vice Presidents awards for outstanding contribution in Marketing in his first year. He was the chief bioinformatics spokesperson for Bio-Rad Laboratories and he successfully launched the NetAffx web site for Affymetrix. He served as Director of Marketing for Neomorphic Software, a pioneering bioinformatics company, and participated as one of the key team members instrumental in the sale of the company for $70M. He is also an International Best Selling Marketing Author, of “Get Your Black Belt in Marketing.” He holds an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Manchester, U.K., a Masters degree in Biochemistry from University College London, and an M.B.A. with a distinction project in marketing from the Manchester Business School in the U.K. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
James Candlin
Vice President of Research and Engineering
James has over 20 years of experience in discovery informatics. Prior to joining Sage-N Research, James served as head of Business Development and Informatics at Discovery Biosciences Corp. Before that, he was at the Applera Corporation for twelve years, where he led the Data Products Group in the Applied Biosystems division and was Director of Bioinformatics of the Paracel division of Celera Genomics. He has a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. from Bristol University in Mathematics and Physics, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Santa Clara University.