Backed by many decades of practiced industry experience, Dr. Benghiat founded and served as CEO of Syscon Development Corporation, Centerpointe Technologies and Northport Technologies, whilst also doing business as Syscon Consulting, providing PC design services as principal engineer. At the beginning of his career, Dr. Benghiat found success through engineering and executive roles with Marconi Space and Defense, Fairchild Semiconductor, and OSM computer Corporation. Dr. Benghiat, a British citizen, believes that coming to America with just $50 in his pocket, working for himself and making major contributions to the early PC industry remains his proudest achievements. Throughout the 80's and early 90's Dr. Benghiat designed state of the art PC Motherboards and Chipsets which were licensed to numerous corporations, including Northgate, Everex, VIA Technologies, Santa Clara Systems, Novell, Hyundai, Samsung, The Motherboard Factory, Synergistic Computers, DTK and many more.