Dr. Sam Appleton
President & CEO
As a CEO and co-founder of Ausdia, Sam has been a driving force in the product planning, product development and market analysis for Timevision, the company’s flagship platform. Prior to Ausdia, he held technical lead roles at Azul Systems, where he managed the implementation & physical methodology for three generations of custom SMP processors, from 500 to 900Mhz and 1.2B transistors. Prior to Azul systems Sam held a variety of technical management positions at Reshape, Cosine Communications and Silicon Graphics.
Sam received a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Adelaide, South Australia focused on high-performance asynchronous circuit & logic design and has personally been involved in more than 20 tape-outs from 1um to 28nm.