Founders
The founders share a vision for a company that is a technology innovator based on the principles of inventiveness, honesty, integrity and responsibility. Both founders have a proven track record of achievements.
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Royce Johnson, Founder and CEO
Royce Johnson has developed a strong set of multidisciplinary experiences in the world of technology over the past 26 years. He contributed greatly to Intel's success in the microprocessor business by serving as the co-general manager of that business from the 286 ramp-up through the 486 product cycle and development of the Pentium processor. Royce drove that group's operational, marketing and financial strategies and execution, while his partner concentrated on new product research and development. The microprocessor business grew from about $100M to over $2B during the five years of leadership provided by Royce and his management partner, Jean-Claude Cornet. Royce then led Intel's Vendor of Choice program to an all-time high of 90% performance in Q4 '94, from a long-running plateau of around 65%. In addition, his organization set up new corporate capabilities for competitor and industry research. Royce was employed at Intel for 18 years, from 1976 until 1994.
Royce has been a key contributor in several Silicon Valley startups. In 1995 he helped co-found Millennia Software, a voice recognition application company. Millennia partnered with AT&T and delivered first-to-market voice-enabled email and fax application software. Royce then joined ZapMe! as VP of Marketing in 1998 and 1999, and helped the company through its IPO in October of 1999. ZapMe! developed and installed education networks in high schools throughout the U.S. using broadband satellite technology. In late 1999, Royce developed the business plan for rStar Networks, a subsidiary of ZapMe!, with the charter to deliver broadband satellite networks to targeted market segment customers. ZapMe! converted its entire mission to the rStar business model (www.rstar.com). In 2000 and '01 Royce co-founded and pursued JvH Online Media, Inc. The company built a business plan to deliver legal education online. Its initial target customer was the American Bar Association.
In Q4 of 2002, he co-founded Parimics with Axel Kloth as a vehicle to deliver a breakthrough in advanced real-time image processing technology to a host of market applications. Royce attended the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration where he received his MBA. He also holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska.
Axel Kloth, Founder and CTO
Vice President of Engineering of Parimics. He has more than 15 years of experience in high performance computing, networking, fault tolerance, High Availability and low latency switching, as well as experience in architecting, designing and implementing large ASICs. Axel held system test and product management positions at Siemens' Public Networks Group (www.siemens.de) and Siemens Microelectronics (SMI) which later became Infineon Technologies (www.infineon.com) as a Senior Systems Architect where he was responsible for the design and implementation of integrated circuits for routers and remote access systems. Axel then joined the startup HotRail in 2000 as Principal Systems Architect and Distinguished Engineer. He stayed with HotRail after the acquisition by Conexant and spin-off into Mindspeed Technologies (www.mindspeed.com). Axel wrote and co-authored more than 30 patents and was appointed to the Patent Review Committees at Infineon and Mindspeed. Additionally, Axel has written several books and technical articles, covering basic technologies and applications and deployments of those technologies.
Axel was appointed to the Technical Advisory Boards of HotRail, Z-Force — which later became Attune Systems (www.attunesystems.com) — and 3Tera (acquired by CA) (www.3Tera.com). He taught the CTO classes in the framework of the Silicon Valley Executive Business Program ("mini-MBA") at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). Axel finished his post-grad studies in physics at University of Kiel in Germany (www.uni-kiel.de/). His diploma thesis covered what has become the basic technology in High Intensity Discharge (HID) automotive headlights.
Axel is the inventor of Parimics' processor architecture. His technical background was the basis for the technology behind Parimics' processors. He and Royce Johnson started Parimics in Q4 of 2002 with the goal to design and manufacture the leading solution for advanced real-time image analysis.