Debu brings over 25 years of semiconductor operating experience to Tallwood, where he focuses on communications, networking and mixed signal investments.

Prior to joining Tallwood, Debu founded Excess Bandwidth Corporation, a fabless DSL Physical Layer chipset company, which was acquired by Virata (CNXT). Before that, he held senior technical and technical management positions at Amati Communications (TXN), where he developed ADSL and VDSL technologies and products. Prior to Amati, he held senior technical positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Intel Corporation.

Debu holds seven U.S. patents and has published more than 30 technical papers. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE, for "Contributions to the theory and practice of use of excess bandwidth and diversity in adaptive equalization for data transmission." He is also a Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where his focus is Signal Processing for Communications.

Debu received a B.Tech. (Hons.) Degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; an M.S.E.E. degree from Washington State University; and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.