Executive Management
Parimics' Executive Management is an accomplished team that has proven on multiple occasions that it can successfully build a company and team from the ground up, can execute towards the vision of the founders, bring a project to the finish line on time and on budget, and fulfill market needs.
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Royce Johnson, President and CEO
Since the inception of Parimics Royce Johnson has been its Chief Executive Officer. He additionally serves as the acting Chief Financial Officer. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with experience in startups as well as in instituting change in large companies. Prior to cofounding Parimics, he was instrumental in starting six other companies in Silicon Valley, one of which he successfully helped bring to an IPO. Before becoming a serial entrepreneur, Royce was the Director of the Vendor of Choice and Strategic Programs at Intel, where he was responsible for leading Intel's corporate-wide Vendor of Choice Program, and where he established the MBO Program. Before that, he was the General Manager of the Microprocessor Engineering and Business Services as well as the Co-General Manager of the Microprocessor Group at Intel. He brings in his extensive experience in operations and in internal marketing as well as pricing strategies. Royce stands for business and operational excellence. He received his MBA from the Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Michigan. He holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska.
Axel Kloth, CTO and Vice President of Engineering
Axel Kloth is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Parimics. He has an extensive background and a broad experience in architecting, designing, implementing and introducing new and disruptive technologies in semiconductors and in systems. Before founding Parimics, Axel was a Distinguished Engineer at Mindspeed, which was a spinoff of Conexant. He came to Conexant through the acquisition of HotRail, which he helped reorient - away from ccNUMA-type SMP switches towards communication switch fabrics - and where as a member of the Technical Advisory Board he was the driving force and the architect behind the iScale switch fabric. Prior to that, he was a Senior System Architect at Infineon Technologies where he worked on the first scalable and fully programmable Network Processor architecture that scaled from OC-48 to OC-768. He was on the career fast track within Siemens AG where he held various engineering and program management positions before he joined Infineon. Axel holds a post-graduate degree in physics with a minor in Information Technology from CAU ("Christian-Albrechts-Universität") Kiel in Germany. During his studies and in his internships, he taught computer and programming language classes, he programmed device drivers and designed I/O Coprocessor boards. In one instance, he helped save $4M/year and prevented 40 metric tons of ferrite mixture from being dumped into landfills annually. See also Axel's profile on LinkedIn.