John Stockton
Venture Advisor
John Stockton is a semiconductor industry veteran who has led numerous startup companies in the field. At Mayfield, John is focusing on development-stage companies in the semiconductor, MEMS and EDA sectors. He is also a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures.
Previously, John was chairman and interim CEO of ARC International, a semiconductor intellectual property company. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Synergy Semiconductor, a maker of high-speed bipolar ICs and Stream Machine, an MPEG-2 codec maker, and was founder and CTO of SVision.
John's prior experience includes VLSI Technology, where he was a VLSI Fellow and co-created the PC Chip-Set Division of VLSI, and ARM Ltd., a UK-based processor design and intellectual property licensing company.
John holds a B.E.S. degree in nuclear and electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
