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Mr. Neal Margulis is an American business man.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Neal founded Calista Technologies, with funding from Greylock and Lightspeed. After pioneering development in cloud based desktop virtualization, Calista was sold to Microsoft in January 2008. Prior to that, Neal was President and CEO of iCompression, a leading developer of voice and video CODEC technology for the broadband and consumer markets. In under three years, Neal grew iCompression from 7 engineers to over 80 people, leading the company to its successful $400+ million acquisition. Neal was part of the early team at S3 Incorporated (later known as S3 Graphics) in 1989 which grew from nothing, through an IPO in 1993, to the leading graphics company when he left in 1997. He started his career with four years at Intel in the Microprocessor Group. He is also the primary inventor on over a dozen issued U.S. patents and has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Vermont.