Rooted in deep semiconductor innovation, we’ve developed a new class of RF front-end solutions that radically improve power efficiency, linearity, cost, and integration – by rethinking analog and RF design from the ground up.
At the core of our technology is an intelligent, adaptive RF architecture – mathematically derived and guided by data-driven optimization – built entirely in standard CMOS RF-SOI. QuantalRF is the industry’s first to achieve a fully monolithic front-end design in CMOS RF-SOI, integrating all essential RF functions – including power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, tunable filtering, switching, and matching – on a single die. Combined with our proprietary DockOn® CPL antenna technology, this platform enables high-performance wireless systems that consume significantly less power, occupy less space, and eliminate the need for digital correction.
Our silicon-proven platform, backed by more than 200 global patents, has already attracted major partners across smartphones, access points, IoT, and satellite communications. With a growing portfolio of licensing and co-development agreements, we are now scaling rapidly into commercial deployment.
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Headquartered in Zürich Switzerland with operations in the U.S. and Sweden, our vision is bold and global: to become the leading RF front-end platform for Wi-Fi, satellite, 5G and AI – powering the wireless future with unmatched energy and spectrum efficiency. By addressing the escalating power and bandwidth crisis in connected devices, QuantalRF is enabling scalable, sustainable wireless networks capable of supporting the next generation of intelligent, autonomous systems worldwide.
— Dr. Ali Fard, CEO & CTO
Chief Executive Officer &
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Ali Fard serves on the company’s Board of Directors and chairs the company’s Technical Advisory Board.
Dr. Fard began his role as CEO/CTO for QuantalRF in January of 2020. Previously, he served as the CTO of EMTensor where he was responsible for a new disruptive medical brain imaging device using radio frequencies. Prior to arriving at QuantalRF, he spent more than 12 years in executive roles at various startups transforming ideas into advanced technologies, growing intellectual property portfolios and driving technology of RFIC products from conception to production. In 2013, as a Senior RFIC Engineering Manager at Microchip, where he was instrumental in the buildup of the IoT team and the company’s product portfolio in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Dr. Fard holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Malardalen University in Sweden.
Michael Albisser
Chief Financial Officer
Michael Albisser is the Chief Financial Officer at QuantalRF and serves on the company’s Board of Directors.
Michael is also a Partner of Metellus AG, a Swiss-based private investment office. Previously Michael was acting CFO of the controlling unit of a multibillion-dollar single Family Office. He has extensive experience in accounting, controlling and reporting of investments in all asset classes.
Michael holds a M.Sc. degree in Finance from the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
David Berthiaume
Vice President, Operations
David has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry and has a deep background in sales and operations leadership, specializing operational structure and building teams from the ground up. Prior to joining QuantalRF, he held the position of VP, Sales Operations at Arm where he grew and managed the operations of the global sales team. During his time at Arm, he also built and led the global inside sales organization, the sales M&A integration team and managed Arm’s global distribution channels.
David received his B.Sc. degree in Business Administration from California State University, Chico.
Dave Aichele
Dave Aichele is Executive Vice President Sales & Business Development responsible for the sales and marketing efforts of the company. Dave recently joined the company in July 2024, bringing over 25 years of international sales, business development and marketing experience.
Prior to QuantalRF, Dave was EVP Business Development at Akoustis, a leading RF component provider to Wi-Fi, 5G, IoT and automotive markets. Dave held EVP role at T1V, a high-tech software company achieving 2014 INC 500 fastest growing private company in US. Dave held Director position at RFMD (now Qorvo, Inc.), where he was instrumental in the launch of new RF semiconductor technology. In addition, he held senior management positions at Tessera and TE Connectivity. Dave received his BSEE from Ohio University and his MBA from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado and currently holds 9 patents.
Mats Carlsson
Vice President, Engineering
Mats Carlsson has a long and solid background from the semiconductor industry where he has held leading R&D positions in both small and large corporations. He is a business driven innovator with a focus on technology development and has been instrumental to the success of the companies he has worked for. Prior to QuantalRF, he was the CTO for Sivers IMA, a stock listed Swedish based mmWave RFIC company. He holds multiple patents, e.g. in the domain of very linear and novel power amplifiers designed in standard CMOS technologies.
Mats Carlsson holds a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Per Oelund
Vice President, Manufacturing
Per Oelund brings to QuantalRF more than 30 years of experience in the electronic and semiconductor industry with in-depth knowledge of strategy, transformation, product development and production, and global sales and marketing of high-tech products, such as, microelectronics, medical and consumer.
Prior to QuantalRF, Per was the EVP for DELTA Microelectronics, a division of DELTA, where he managed to build up a very successful business offering ASIC total solutions to international customers featuring everything from ASIC design to high volume production of ASIC components.
Per Oelund holds a B.Sc. degree in Electronical Engineering from the Technical University in Aarhus, Denmark, complemented by executive programs in Business Management from Copenhagen Business School.
Christopher Smith
Chairman
Christopher Smith is a member of the company’s Board of Directors.
Christopher is a lawyer by background and was, for over 25 years, a Partner of Cazenove & Co. and a Managing Director – Corporate Finance of JP Morgan Cazenove. He was responsible for relationships with key U.K. clients across the firm’s corporate finance and advisory business and led the firm’s involvement in many significant transactions, including IPOs, mergers and acquisitions and secondary offerings. He is chairman of CG Asset Management.
Dr. Ted Tewksbury
Executive Vice Chairman
Dr. Ted Tewksbury is Executive Vice Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors.
Dr. Tewksbury is a seasoned CEO and NACD-certified board director with a proven track record of developing and commercializing disruptive new technologies. He is currently Chairman of the Board at Ouster, a leading developer of lidar sensors and software for autonomous systems, and a board director at MaxLinear, a premier supplier of semiconductor solutions for broadband communications and connectivity. He also serves on the boards of several startup and private companies, including Jariet Technologies (digital microwave communications), Exyn Technologies (autonomous drones) and Oculi (vision AI). As the former CEO/President of five public companies, including Velodyne Lidar, Integrated Device Technology, Entropic Communications and AMI Semiconductor, Dr. Tewksbury led transformative change that grew revenue, profitability and shareholder value. Dr. Tewksbury started his career as an analog/RF IC design engineer/manager at Analog Devices and went on to build the CMOS and SiGe RF businesses at IBM Microelectronics and Maxim Integrated Products before moving into C-suite roles.
Dr. Tewksbury earned a B.S. in Architecture and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Norbert Reis
Non-Executive Director
Norbert Reis is a member of the company’s Board of Directors.
Norbert Reis is a former investment banker looking back on a 35-year career in senior roles in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private equity and capital markets at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Carlyle Group and HSBC. He has extensive experience in emerging growth as well as mature industries in IPO’s, financings, restructurings as well as mergers and acquisitions.
After obtaining his Economics degree in Germany, he joined the Boston Consulting Group in Munich and co-founded the pHGroup in London, an early-stage database organization in the 1980’s, before joining Morgan Stanley in New York.
Dr. Marc Tremblay
Non-Executive Director
Dr. Marc Tremblay is a member of the company’s Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Board.
Dr. Tremblay is the Vice President – Silicon Technology and Strategy at Microsoft. He is an innovative thought leader in custom silicon, a prolific inventor of high performance commercially successful processors, has published multiple journal and conference papers, and presently holds over 200 patents. Prior to Microsoft, he was SVP and CTO of the Microelectronics business unit at Sun Microsystems where, as a Sun Fellow, he was instrumental in the design of several microprocessors generating tens of billions of dollars in system revenue. He was also responsible for the technical leadership of 1200 engineers.
Dr. Tremblay has M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from UCLA and a Physics Engineering degree from Laval University in Canada.
