Stan Boland

CEO & President and Founder

Stan is responsible for the overall management of Icera Inc and is a member of the Board of Directors and a founder of the Company.

Prior to founding Icera, Stan was Vice President and General Manager of the DSL business unit of Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) with responsibility for all DSL-related worldwide development and marketing activity. He assumed this role following the sale to Broadcom of Element 14 Inc, a start-up fabless semiconductor company focused on high density DSL chipsets, which Broadcom acquired for $640M in late 2000. At Element 14, Stan was founder, President & CEO. Immediately prior to this, Stan was CEO of Acorn Group plc, a publicly-quoted electronics company which Morgan Stanley acquired in 1999 for $440M, and was a director of ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMHY), an associate of Acorn. He had joined Acorn from ICL, an affiliate of Fujitsu Limited, in 1997 following 7 years with that company in a variety of business management roles, including CFO of two large operating divisions. Prior to ICL, he worked for 3 years with a large successful MBO, 1 year with Bell Resources and 6 years with Rolls-Royce, a leading aerospace company, where he trained as an engineer in electronics and engineering computing. He graduated in Physics from Cambridge University, is a Member of the IEEE and is qualified as an FCMA and a MCT.