Syrus has 15 years of semiconductor design and management experience, including co-founding a semiconductor company.

Prior to joining Tallwood he co-founded Nucleus Logic, a fabless semiconductor company integrating networking and computing functions for servers. Syrus was also an R&D manager at HP in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Cupertino, California, and he served as Director of ASIC Design at Digital Archway. His experience spans multiple generations of PA-RISC and IPF CPU and server chipset designs, as well as networking ASICs and CAD tools.

Syrus holds a B. S. in Electrical Engineering, with honors, from Rice University and an M. S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.