Steve Brightfield

Skilled at working in collaborative, data-driven teams and gaining consensus. Global marketing and business development experience across mobile, computing, VR, AI/ML, 5G, infrastructure, networking, data center, multi-media, industrial, military, consumer, and IOT markets. Skilled at developing comprehensive marketing programs, including Marcom, GTM, CRM, Web, collateral, messaging, ICP profiling and engagement planning, sales funnel development and process management. I have collaborated with sales and engineering teams to define products in systems, software, firmware, semiconductors, and semiconductor intellectual property. Identifying market opportunities and then closely collaborating with customers, external partners, and key internal stakeholders in engineering, finance, and sales for productization of innovative technologies and business concepts. Enjoy working on due diligence on a diverse set of technologies and business opportunities for VCs and consulting for start-ups across a wide range of technologies and markets. Some interesting things I had a hand in starting and/or enjoyed working on: *Airborne drone that could find, then fly over Surface to Air Missile (SAM) radars and jam them *Underwater drone that could detect Russian sub sonar amid biological sounds (sea life) and call home *Standard digital audio packet networking across mil to eliminate wiring in air/land/sea platforms *First JPEG camera processing chip that evolved into the largest selling digital camera chipset ever *A digital video encoder chip(HDMI to NTSC/PAL) that shipped in gaming/sat/cable boxes for decades *Single chip video rate FFT & FIR Filter processor chipsets that dominated the military (guidance) *Pioneering the earliest days of the semiconductor intellectual property licensing market *First socket for a smartphone single chip design that defines the market today (Snapdragon) *Single chip 1000 voice call channel basestation *First single chip cellular basestation with network listen now known as a smallcell * DSP processor in almost every iPhone and Android phone shipped to date * CPU processor in advanced autonomous vehicle designs * RISC-5 processor for next gen graphics