Executive team
Stefan Braken
Stefan Braken
Managing Partner
Stefan Braken is a senior Executive with wide experience as CEO, COO and VP in public and private companies, including Philips Semiconductor, IDT, and Zilog. He has led large scale organizations in general management, operations, marketing and sales. A results driven leader with a track record of maximizing revenue and profitability, he is adept in slashing expenses, streamlining operations, and divestiture as part of the process of improving competitive positioning.
Dipl.-Ing applied Physics
Hugh Cree
Hugh Cree
Partner
Hugh Cree is a Senior Business Development Executive with a broad background of experience in Asia, Europe and North America. He has successfully led the customer deployment of advanced semiconductor solutions for fabless semiconductor startups and multinationals like Motorola and Philips to Consumer Electronics OEMs and ODMs in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Europe, including forming distribution partnerships, development of local teams, 3rd party alliances and forging strong relationships with regional regulatory agencies.
Endorsements include acknowledgement by Japanese MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) for the best international cooperation between a Japanese and foreign company. His background includes large scale computer systems hardware design, CMOS ASIC designs and the establishment and management of ASIC and CAD design centers.
BSEE
Louis Rajczi
Louis Rajczi
Partner
Louis Rajczi brings 25 years of telecommunications experience in executive management, finance, international business / corporate development, product management and software development. Prior to co-founding Interlink Partners, Louis was VP Business Development & Marketing for BRN Phoenix – a WiMax infrastructure startup.
In 1999 Mr. Rajczi joined Mustang Ventures (later SVC), the corporate venture arm of Siemens, and spent the next 10 years building up the Silicon Valley office. At SVC, Louis’ primary focus was sourcing and managing investments related to mobile and fixed wireless network infrastructure, mobile devices, fixed mobile convergence and mobile enterprise. Before joining SVC, Mr. Rajczi worked in the office of the CTO for Siemens’ mobile division in Munich, Germany. Prior to Siemens, Louis held a variety of executive and development positions for Nortel Networks in the USA and Canada.
Mr. Rajczi received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1986 and an MBA from Southern Methodist University in 1990.
Tim Barnes
Timothy Barnes
Partner
Tim Barnes is a widely experienced consultant and author. Educated in New Zealand, he has worked professionally in the Pacific region, the US, and Europe, most recently returning from a three year stint leading a pan-European marketing team for a high-tech software company.
As a management consultant his strategy, market research and branding services have helped clients grow into new markets and reposition for success in industries as diverse as semiconductors, software, banking, furniture, industrial design and life insurance. His professional experience ranges from startups to Fortune 500 companies.
B.A. B.B.Sc. B.Arch
International Partners
Stefan Frank, Hamburg
Stefan Frank
Stefan Frank is an experienced consultant focusing on outsourcing projects into China and streamlining of operational processes.
He has advised clients in a wide range of industries including publishing, telecomunications, automotive and shipyards throughout Europe on the same subjects.
B.A Economics, MBA (Hamburg).