Wow, $SIVE to be listed in the MSCI Global Small Cap Index.
This is overwhelmly positively as it triggers more passive inflows as the MC grows.
Rebalancing takes places May 29th.
To make things even spicier.
$SIVE is run by UC Berkeley CEOs and $LITE executives.
And the ownership cab table is now controlled by American institutions/investors.
I’d expect things to speed up on NASDAQ listing as American institutions are heavy fond of executive teams + cap tables like this.
US/Silicon Valley is now speedrunning a Swedish in name photonics company.
Great technology alone doesn’t build billion-dollar companies.
Execution does.
And after a few more serious posts on $SIVE / $SIVE, I figured it was time to analyze management using the only framework that really matters:
Marvel character comparisons.
So here’s Sivers management as the Avengers of semis and photonics.
🛡️ Vickram Vathulya — CEO — Captain America Bio: Previously led Nuvotronics through a strategic and operational transformation focused on long-term growth and value creation. Before that he revitalized Maxim Integrated’s largest and most profitable business unit and helped scale RF/wireless businesses at Maxim and $NXP. Strengths: Execution, growth strategy, identifying secular trends before the market. Weaknesses: Empty office buildings and decorative bookshelves with no actual books.
💚 Harish Krishnaswamy — MD Wireless — Hulk Bio: World-class mmWave expert with deep technical expertise and experience around strategic semiconductor funding opportunities like the CHIPS Act. Strengths: Elite RF expertise, technical credibility, long-term industry vision. Weaknesses: Selling shares with bad timing.
🔴 Karin Raj — Board Member — Scarlet Witch Bio: Telecom and networking veteran with leadership experience from $NOK, Ericsson and Huawei, including CTO and product leadership roles across the industry. Strengths: Industry network, operational discipline, seeing around corners. Weaknesses: If $NOK is involved with Sivers, good luck getting anything out of her.
🤖 Andrew McKee — MD Photonics — Iron Man Bio: Photonics and manufacturing expert focused on turning advanced technology into scalable real-world products. Has spent years bridging deep-tech innovation with manufacturable production capabilities. Strengths: Engineering depth, execution, productization. Weaknesses: May casually discuss something 15 years ahead of public market understanding.
🧠 Bami Bastani — Chairman — Nick Fury Bio: Semiconductor veteran with 40+ years in the industry. Former CEO and board member of ANADIGICS, Trident Microsystems and Meru Networks, and later SVP at $GFS where he led the high-growth Mobile & Wireless Infrastructure business. Strengths: Strategic vision, industry relationships, pattern recognition through cycles. Weaknesses: Probably measures time in semiconductor cycles instead of years.
💰 Todd Thomson — Board Member — Doctor Strange Bio: Former executive at Citigroup, GE Capital and Bain with deep financial and strategic expertise. Strengths: Capital allocation, strategic planning, financial structuring. Weaknesses: Has seen so many capital markets cycles that nothing qualifies as “normal” anymore.
📡 Raymond Biagan — CRO — Hawkeye Bio: Semiconductor sales leader with a strong track record of driving major revenue growth and customer expansion across the industry, including at $GFS. Strengths: Customer relationships, commercial execution, closing large opportunities. Weaknesses: Probably hasn’t seen his family in weeks because he’s too busy expanding the opportunity pipeline.
💼 Heine Thorsgaard — CFO — Vision Bio: CFO with 20+ years driving growth, operational efficiency and long-term value creation across technology companies, most recently as CFO of Napatech. Strengths: Discipline, operational leverage, financial oversight. Weaknesses: He’s Danish. 🤷🏻♂️
Jokes aside, this isn’t a rookie team trying to figure things out for the first time.
These are people who’ve already been through the process of scaling semiconductor and deep-tech businesses before, navigating industry cycles, executing strategic transactions and building long-term value.
Great technology alone doesn’t build billion-dollar companies.
Execution does.
And Sivers has assembled a management team that already knows what that journey looks lik
.. Hope I don’t get copyrighted 😅