Meet Our Founders

Gani Jusuf, Ph.D.

CEO / Co-Founder

Dr. Jusuf has extensive experience in semiconductor design and automotive networking. He leads Axonne's strategic vision to deliver cutting-edge high-speed networking solutions for the automotive industry. His leadership drives the company's mission to enable AI-Defined Vehicles through innovative ethernet technology. Prior to founding Axonne, Dr. Jusuf served as Marvell Vice President of Product Development for Communications and Consumer Business Group from February 2000 to Aug 2014. He was responsible in defining and developing data communications products and technology strategies. Dr. Jusuf joined Marvell at its inception in 1995 where he was Director of Engineering and responsible for storage product development. Dr. Jusuf was an independent board of director for PowerByProxi (acquired by Apple Oct 2017) from 2014-2017 and advisory board member at several start-ups. Prior to this, Dr. Jusuf held senior technical and management positions at Agilent Technologies & Hewlett-Packard. He has B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

William Lo

CTO / Co-Founder

As the technical visionary behind Axonne's product portfolio, Mr. Lo oversees the development of Axonne's innovative networking solutions. His deep expertise in high-speed semiconductor design enables Axonne to push the boundaries of automotive connectivity. Prior to founding Axonne, Mr. Lo was the Vice President of Engineering at Marvell responsible for Ethernet and Automotive Ethernet products. He was with Marvell from 1998-2016. He also played a major role in developing the 1000BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet standard in IEEE in 2016. Mr. Lo is a named inventor in more than 180 patents both at Marvell and AMD. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from San Jose State University.