Prior to joining Silicon Laboratories, Mr. Bock was a partner at venture capital firms CenterPoint Ventures and Verity Ventures. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Bock served as president and chief executive officer of DAZEL Corporation, a provider of electronic information delivery systems. After DAZEL's acquisition by HP, Mr. Bock served as vice president for HP until 2001. Prior to DAZEL, Mr. Bock served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Tivoli Systems, a client server software company, which he helped to take public in 1995 and was acquired by IBM in 1996. Prior to joining Tivoli, Mr. Bock successfully completed an IPO at Convex Computer Corporation as CFO in 1986 and then became senior vice president of sales in 1991. Mr. Bock ... spent nine years in various finance roles at Texas Instruments including vice president and controller of the data systems group.