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As Vice President of Business Development and Intellectual Property Licensing at Silicon Image Almgren is responsible for growing the semiconductor and software IP licensing business for PC storage and consumer electronic segments. During his tenure he has grown the business from $6 million in recognized licensing revenue in 2002 to $44 million in 2006. He has also established IP licensing as a Silicon Image revenue category requiring coordination of cross-functional resources including product definition and development engineering marketing and sales. Prior to Silicon Image Almgren was the CEO and director of Vivcom where he led corporate strategy and development of PVR set top box and video search and indexing server software products. Almgren was the Founder CEO and Chairman of Mixman Technologies Inc. ( www.mixman.com ) a consumer music hardware software and content company. Almgren has also held executive leadership positions at Beatnik as a board member and EVP Corporate Development as well as business management and engineering positions at LSI Logic and Hewlett-Packard. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Texas. | 