Dharan to oversee strategic direction, management and growth of the Tessera intellectual property licensing business
SAN JOSE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — October 18, 2017 — Xperi Corporation (Nasdaq: XPER) (“Xperi”) announced today that Murali Dharan has been named president of Tessera Intellectual Property Corp. (“Tessera”). Dharan will be responsible for the strategic direction, management and growth of the Tessera intellectual property licensing business and will report to Xperi CEO Jon Kirchner.
Dharan has extensive leadership experience, most recently as CEO of IPVALUE, guiding the company from a start-up to an industry leader and helping partners to generate more than $1.6 billion in IP revenue. Prior to joining IPVALUE in 2002, Dharan held executive roles at various technology companies, including executive vice president at Preview Systems, vice president and general manager at Silicon Graphics, and vice president and general manager at NEC.
“We’re excited about the leadership and deep experience Murali brings, which further enhances our capabilities in the IP licensing business,” said Kirchner. “Importantly, Murali is well positioned to build on our existing portfolio of valuable IP and pursue broader monetization opportunities we believe to be in the many hundreds of millions of dollars.”
“I am thrilled to have the opportunity to join Xperi and help further expand and license what I view as an incredibly valuable portfolio of IP and technology assets,” said Dharan. “I look forward to working with Jon and the team to drive the long-term growth and success of our licensing business.”
Dharan has earned an electrical engineering degree from Anna University in India, a master’s degree in computer science from Indiana University, and an MBA from Stanford University.
About Xperi Corporation's Semiconductor and IP Licensing Business
Tessera and Invensas are subsidiaries of Xperi Corporation. Over the past 27 years, research and development at both Tessera and Invensas has led to significant innovations in semiconductor packaging technology, which has been widely licensed and is found in billions of electronic devices globally. Invensas develops next-generation semiconductor packaging and interconnect technologies for memory, mobile, computing and automotive applications. Through collaborative partnerships with world-class manufacturing companies and high-volume equipment and materials suppliers, Invensas licenses these technology solutions to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, integrated device manufacturers, fabless device suppliers, foundries and outsourced assembly and test providers, and supports the technology transfer at customer-designated sites. Additionally, Invensas' low temperature wafer bonding technologies target the image sensor, DRAM, MEMS, RF and 2.5D logic markets.
About Xperi Corporation
Xperi Corporation (Nasdaq: XPER) and its brands, DTS, FotoNation, HD Radio, Invensas and Tessera, are dedicated to creating innovative technology solutions that enable extraordinary experiences for people around the world. Xperi’s solutions are licensed by hundreds of leading global partners and have shipped in billions of products in areas including premium audio, broadcast, automotive, computational imaging, computer vision, mobile computing and communications, memory, data storage, and 3D semiconductor interconnect and packaging. For more information, please call 408-321-6000 or visit www.xperi.com.
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hiring of Mr. Dharan and the opportunities for Tessera’s intellectual
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of the Company's customers; limited opportunities to license
technologies due to high concentration in applicable markets for such
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