Primary Job Title Board Director Primary Organization 
ATI Technologies
Gender Male
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Robert A. Young, Ph.D., is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Tessera, a role he stepped into in May 2011. He also serves on the Tessera board, which he joined in 1991 as a founding investor and for which he was chairman from 1996 to 2002.
Prior to Tessera, Young managed personal private equity investments in early stage technology
companies through IRT, Inc., before which he was chairman and CEO of Curl Corporation, an Internet infrastructure software company. He was previously a senior partner and managing director at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., an investment bank, where he had corporate finance responsibility for information technology companies, and for which he served as the managing general partner of venture capital funds from 1987 to 1994
Young started his business career with IBM, where, over an 18 year period, he held a number of management and executive positions. His last position at IBM was as president, IBM Instruments, a fully integrated global company with operations in the U.S. and Europe, and with products consisting of scientific instruments and scientific computers. Young served as a director of ATI Technologies (NASDAQ: ATYT), a leading producer of 3-D graphics and multimedia products, until its merger with AMD in 2006.
