Dr.Edward H. Frank, Ph.D.

Overview

Edward H. Frank, Ph.D. joined Broadcom as Senior Director of Engineering of Home & Wireless Networking in May 1999 following our acquisition of Epigram, Inc., a developer of advanced semiconductor products for high-speed home networking. In March 2003 Dr. Frank was elected Vice President, Research & Development. Dr. Frank was a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Epigram from 1996 to 1999. From 1993 to 1996 he was a co-founder and Vice President Engineering of NeTpower Inc., a computer workstation manufacturer. From 1988 to 1993 he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he co-architected several generations of Sun SPARCstations and was a principal member of Sun's Green Project, which developed the precursor to the JavaTM cross-platform web programming language. Dr. Frank received a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Frank is a named inventor in 41 U.S. patents and is a Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University.