Bill Eversole

BILL EVERSOLE, PH.D., is President and Chief Executive Officer of
Bandspeed, Inc. Bill Eversole has 31 years experience in the
semiconductor business, specializing in product and business
development. He oversees all of Bandspeed operations, including product
development and production, marketing, sales and business development.
Before joining Bandspeed, Bill was with Quellan, a semiconductor company
that develops high-speed integrated circuits for communications
equipment, where he served as president and chief operating officer.
Bill oversaw day-to-day operations at Quellan. He was active in the
broadening of the application space for Quellan’s cooperative signal
processing technology and defining cooperative developments with key
customers in the high-speed interconnect market space. Bill worked at
Texas Instruments from 1973 to 2002, where he rose from a defense
systems integrated circuit design engineer to become general manager of
the Worldwide DSL Business in the Broadband Communications Group. There
he guided the company from a distant number four in the DSL central
office and customer premise equipment two, shipping over nine million
ADSL ports while improving margins on all products. His technical
achievements include creating the industry’s first integrated two-chip
ADSL CPE solution. Bill received his Doctorate and Master’s of Science
degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University,
received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Tennessee, and completed The Executive Program at the
Michigan Business School. He is a senior member of IEEE, previously a
member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Telecommunications
Management and the Telecommunication Industry Association and has been a
mentor in the Menttium 100 Program.