Boardroom Media (CEO News)
At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Chicago based CEO’ operating in the Electronics space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Kieran O’Sullivan
President & CEO of CTS Corporation
Kieran O’Sullivan is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of CTS Corp. He has been appointed as Chairman of the Board effective May 21, 2014. Prior to assuming this role on January 7, 2013, O’Sullivan served as Executive Vice President of Continental AG’s Global Infotainment and Connectivity Business and led the NAFTA Interior Division, having joined Continental AG, a global automotive supplier, in 2006.
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About CTS Corporation: CTS aims to be a leading provider of sensing & motion devices as well as connectivity components, enabling an intelligent & seamless world.
Haven Allen
CEO and Co-Founder of mHUB
Haven Allen, chief executive officer and co-founder, is an entrepreneur and technology strategist who most recently concentrated on growing the manufacturing industry and strengthening its community throughout Chicagoland. As an economic development strategist at World Business Chicago, he directed the Advisory Council for Chicagoland Manufacturing through which he established and led the implementation of an economic development agenda to support growth and job creation in the manufacturing sector. During his graduate education, Haven served as a Mayoral Fellow at the City of Chicago. As a fellow he provided research and analysis on policy initiatives dealing with infrastructure, electricity markets and municipal marketing. In order to give back to his country, Haven joined the Peace Corps and served as a community economic development volunteer in Panama where he worked to strengthen the management and leadership capacities of rural cooperatives and local organizations in order to increase economic opportunities. In addition, Haven was a small business owner in the production and publishing industry. Haven has a Master of Public Policy and a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Science, Technology and Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of Illinois at Chicago.
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About mHUB, mHUB, mHUB, mHUB Accelerator Incubation LLC: mHUB is a hardtech innovation and manufacturing entrepreneurial center.
Todd De Young
President & CEO of Antenna79
Todd joined Pong in September of 2012. Prior to joining Pong, Todd was Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at Career Education Corporation where he was responsible for developing the company’s overall business strategy and leading its marketing efforts. Todd has over 20 years of experience in general management, strategic marketing, distribution, strategy development and brand building and has served in senior roles at Motorola, Ameritech, the Allstate Insurance Company and The Procter & Gamble Company. He earned his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and his B.A. from Hope College.
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About Antenna79: Antenna79 is a consumer electronics company that design and market products with built-in antenna technology.
Ravin Gandhi
Co-Founder & CEO of GMM Nonstick Coatings
Ravin Gandhi is the CEO and Co-Founder of GMM Nonstick Coatings, one of the largest nonstick coatings companies in the world. Ravin also moonlights as a VC investor, and makes frequent media appearances to discuss entrepreneurship and the global economy in outlets such as CNBC, Forbes, BBC, Bloomberg, NY Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
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About GMM Nonstick Coatings: GMM Nonstick Coatings to the cookware, bakeware, and electrical appliance industries.
Steve Kaiser
Co-Founder & CEO of OrecX
Steve has 28 years experience in voice recording technology sales and support. Prior to co-founding OrecX, Steve founded Stevens Communications, the North American channel partner for Nice Systems.
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About OrecX: OrecX is an international provider of enterprise grade call recording, quality management, and screen recording solutions.
Martin Slark
CEO of Molex
CEO at Molex
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About Koch Industries, Molex: Molex is a supplier of electronic interconnects.
Bohdan Pyskir
CEO of Rhino Defense
Bohdan Pyskir, Bo serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Lemko Corporation. Bohdan Pyskir is a Strong operating executive with proven background in starting and growing wireless businesses. Bohdan Pyskir has Substantial international business experience. Bohdan Pyskir has an MA from Harvard University and a BS from United States Military Academy at West Point.
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About Rhino Defense: Rhino Defense is a provider of smart RF shields and smart access management systems.
Daniel Roberts
Founder & CEO of Scout
Daniel Roberts is the Founder & CEO at Scout
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About Scout: Scout is a home security system that combines hardware designs and easy-to-use controls.
Mike Casper
CEO of FLEx Lighting
Mike Casper is the CEO at Azumo.
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About Azumo, FLEx Lighting: FLEx Lighting is a nanotechnology and optics company that produces flexible LED light guide film.
Tom Anderson
President & Chief Executive Officer of Digital Check Corp.
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About Digital Check Corp.: Digital Check Corp. is a provider of image capture and payments processing technology.
Josh Saunders
Founder & CEO of Uncorkd
Josh Saunders is Founder & CEO at Uncorkd.
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About Uncorkd: Uncorkd is a smartphone application that enables restaurants to display their wine and beverage menus.
John Renaldi
CEO and Co-founder of Jiobit
CEO & Co-Founder Jiobit.
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About Jiobit: Jiobit is an electronics company that manufactures the world’s smallest and longest self learning location tracking technology.
Christopher Oechsel
President/CEO of Zethcon
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About Zethcon: Zethcon is a supply chain execution software and services provider.
Said Al-Hallaj
Founder & CEO of NETenergy
Said Al-Hallaj is the Founder and CEO NETenergy.
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About AllCell Technologies, NETenergy, Northwestern University, Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth, University of Illinois at Chicago: NETenergy is a thermal energy storage company that is creating a thermal battery designed to offset peak electricity load.
Amitava Das
Founder & CEO of Tagore Technology
Amitava Das is one of the founders of Tagore in 2011, the CEO and a Board Member. Amitava has previously served as Director at both Maxlinear and at Freescale. Prior to those roles Amitava held senior engineering roles at Motorola and Freescale developing 2.5G/3G RF IC Circuits and Modules which shipped in large volumes in cellular phones. Earlier is his career, Amitava was an Associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. Amitava holds a Ph.D., in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, an M.S. in EE from University of Akron and EE undergraduate degree from Jadavpur University.
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About Tagore Technology: Tagore Technology is a semiconductors company.
Michael Lingle
CEO & Cofounder of Eta Vision
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About Eta Vision, Innventure: Eta Vision is a Company That develops zero management sensor network and control system for data centers.
Philip R. Troyk
President & CEO of Sigenics
Philip Troyk is the President & CEO at Sigenics Inc.
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About Sigenics: Sigenics was established in December 2000 with one purpose in mind: to provide excellence in silicon
Michael Garrett
CEO of Garrett Technologies
Michael Garrett has 22 years experience in the medical device field, developing Class II and III medical devices. Mr. Garrett has extensive experience in the development of medical products including analog and digital hardware design, software design and development, human factors assessment, regulatory affairs and agency certifications. He is an expert in defibrillation design.
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About Garrett Technologies: Garrett Technologies is specialize in advanced electrical engineering and embedded software development for both medical & consumer products
Parker Schmitt
CEO of NetThunder
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About NetThunder: NetThunder is an on-premise private cloud solution that is easy to setup and includes services that keep companies running.
Todd Ringleman
President, Founder & CEO of RAY ALLEN INC
Todd Ringleman is the President/CEO at RAY · ALLEN, INC.
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About RAY ALLEN INC: RAY ALLEN is an IT asset management platform that assists companies in obtaining asset information and real time market data.
Kara Scanlin
CEO of Lystr
Chicago Booth MBA graduating top 5% of my class, NCAA DI All-American, relentlessly resourceful, results-driven entrepreneur, co-founder @Lystr
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About Lystr: Lystr is a connected home device that creates your grocery list for you
Tim Taylor
CEO of Light Efficient Design
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About Light Efficient Design: Light Efficient Design
Bobby Boyd
Founder / CEO / Software Engineer of Anarchist
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About Anarchist: We’re building hardware and software products that make it easier to create and collaborate in virtual reality and augmented reality.
