Gil Amelio - Post-Apple Career

Post-Apple Career

Since 1998 Amelio has been a venture capitalist focusing on early-stage startups. He is currently Senior Partner at Sienna Ventures in Sausalito, California, and CEO of Acquicor, a company he co-founded with ex-Apple CTO Ellen Hancock and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Acquicor completed the acquisition of Jazz Semiconductor in Newport Beach, California in early 2007 and has since been granted SEC approval.

In February 2001 Amelio became CEO of Advanced Communications Technologies (ADC). ADC is the United States arm of an Australian firm that has developed a product for the wireless communications industry called SpectruCell. SpectruCell supports multiple protocols and is software upgradeable, which has been characterised as a big boon to the cell phone market.

Amelio is a former director and chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association. Since 1996 has been an advisor to the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor and to Malaysia's Prime Minister. Amelio is a current or past director of AT&T Inc., Pacific Telesis, Chiron Corporation, Sematech, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board (as chairman) and the American Film Institute. In June 2003 he was named Chairman of the Board of Ripcord Networks; where he joined Steve Wozniak, Ellen Hancock, and other Apple alumni. In October 2005 Amelio joined the Board of Advisors to Vanguard PAC (now TheVanguard.Org). Gil Amelio is on the advisory board of tech start-up Intelicloud.

Amelio is an IEEE Fellow. He has been awarded 16 patents. He is the author of three books: An American Imperative (1993), Profit from Experience (1995, ISBN 978-0471287049) and On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple (1998, ISBN 978-0887309199), the latter two of which were business bestsellers.