The People BehindGateway AI

A serial entrepreneur whose companies have generated more than $10 billion in combined exit value. Rajvir founded and sold Apigee to Google and StratumOne Communications to Cisco. He also founded Fiberlane Communications, which became Cerent and Siara Systems; both were acquired by Cisco.

Atiq is a highly respected veteran in the semiconductor industry, playing a significant role in the evolution of the semiconductor industry over the past 30 years. Atiq gained his reputation as Chairman and CEO of NexGen, which revolutionized the design of x86 processors, and was acquired in 1996 by Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD).

Atiq then became President and COO of AMD and led its transition from running behind Intel processors to being a direct competitor, gaining significant market share in PCs and the Cloud. Later Atiq was the founder, Chairman and CEO of RMI which was acquired by NetLogic which in turn was acquired by Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) on the strength of the RMI processor.

Since then Atiq has held multiple roles, including investor, Chairman and CEO of semiconductor companies, and serving on the boards of many companies including Mellanox, Magma Design Automation, Matrix and Solantro, to name a few. Today Atiq is on the boards of six companies, the Executive Chairman of the Board at Eridan, and of the board of Virsec Systems Inc. and Peernova. He is also on the board of Liquid.ai a next-generation foundation AI Model company that spun out of MIT’s Computer Science and AI Labs.