Pete brings to Tallwood more than 20 years of engineering design and management experience in Silicon Valley.

As an early member of the IC technology group at Apple, Pete developed ASICs for the early Macs, and he was a principal hardware architect on the Apple Newton team. He led the IC technology and graphics product groups at SuperMac and headed systems engineering and product planning at Chromatic Research, a fabless semiconductor startup that developed the Mpact media processor for the PC. He was a founder and CEO of nBand Communications, a fabless semiconductor startup developing software-defined radio solutions for the broadband wireless market. He most recently served as VP Engineering at Predicant Biosciences, where he led a team that developed time-of-flight mass spectrometry detectors for a protein biomarker discovery and assay platform.

Pete holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and an M.S. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley.