Anthony J. “Tony” Tether, Ph.D., serves on Tessera’s board of directors. Tether was director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) until he retired in 2009. Before joining DARPA in 2001, Tether was CEO and president of The Sequoia Group (TSG), which provides program management and strategy development services to government and industry, and he reformed the company after leaving DARPA.

Prior to TSG, Tether was CEO of Dynamics Technology Inc. and also served as vice president and general manager at Science Applications International Corporation’s Advanced Technology Sector. Before this, he was vice president for Technology and Advanced Development at Ford Aerospace Corp. after holding several directorial positions at the Department of Defense from 1978 to 1986.

Tether has served on U.S. Army, Navy and Defense Science boards, and on the Office of National Drug Control Policy Research and Development Committee. He has been honored with three medals from the U.S. Central Intelligence and Defense departments, and is a distinguished fellow with the Council on Competitiveness in Washington D.C.

He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.