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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 United States based CEO’ operating in the Semiconductor 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.
Gerard Williams III
Chief Executive Officer of Nuvia
Gerard Williams III is the CEO of NUVIA. Prior to co-founding NUVIA, he was a Senior Director at Apple and Chief CPU Architect for nearly a decade with responsibilities for a range of leading-edge CPUs and SoCs across a broad array of devices. Before joining Apple, Gerard spent over 10 years at ARM, as an ARM Fellow, and serving on the ARM Architectural Review and Technical Advisory Boards. While at ARM, he served as a technical advisor for the ARM architecture and CPU development to many key ARM partners. Gerard began his career with tenures at Intel and Texas Instruments. He holds 38 patents to date with multiple pending and holds an MSEE from the University of Missouri Rolla and a BSE from Arkansas State University.
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About Nuvia: Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world.
Cesar Johnston
CEO of Energous Corporation
Mr. Cesar Johnston joined Energous in July 2014 and serves as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Cesar is a seasoned technologist, entrepreneur, and investor. Prior to Energous, Cesar has had a broad experience in large enterprises and startups. He has previously served as Vice President of Engineering for Wireless Connectivity at Marvell Semiconductor. During his time with Marvell, Cesar led Marvell’s worldwide R&D and development of all Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM, and NFC products. Prior to Marvell, Cesar drove technology innovation at Broadcom responsible for 802.11g and 802.11n products. Cesar has over 20 years of experience working across hardware, software, and services and is recognized as a pioneer in the technology development of multiple first-of generations of SISO and MIMO wireless products. He serves on the CTO Council for the Global Semiconductor Alliance, is an IEEE Senior Member, and is an advisory board member to KINS Technology Group. He also has written over 40 conference and journal papers and holds 25 patents.
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About Energous Corporation: Energous Corporation is the creator of WattUp, charging technology for electronic devices.
Steve Rizzone
Chairman, President & CEO of Energous Corporation
Stephen R. Rizzone serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Energous Corporation.
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About Energous Corporation: Energous Corporation is the creator of WattUp, charging technology for electronic devices.
Hock Tan
President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadcom
Hock Tan is Broadcom President, Chief Executive Officer and director. He has held this position at Avago, now Broadcom, since March 2006. From September 2005 to January 2008, he served as chairman of the board of Integrated Device Technology. Prior to becoming chairman of IDT, Hock. Tan was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Circuit Systems from June 1999 to September 2005. Prior to ICS, Hock Tan was Vice President of Finance with Commodore International from 1992 to 1994, and previously held senior management positions with PepsiCo and General Motors. Hock Tan served as managing director of Pacven Investment, a venture capital fund in Singapore from 1988 to 1992, and served as managing director for Hume Industries in Malaysia from 1983 to 1988.
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About Broadcom, Broadcom Wireless Infrastructure Backhaul Business, Micro Networks, Sandburst Corporation: Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
Michael Heltzen
Chief Executive Officer of Cardea Bio
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About Cardea Bio, Nanomed: Cardea is developing a new generation of (bio)technology infrastructure based on proprietary biology-gated transistors.
Martin Anstice
President and CEO of Lam Research
Martin Anstice is the FORMER president and chief executive officer of Lam Research who was let go for sexual harrassment claims. Mr. Anstice joined the company in April 2001, was promoted to chief financial officer in 2004, appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer in September 2008, and promoted to president in December 2010. In January 2012, Mr. Anstice was appointed chief executive officer and in February 2012, appointed to the Lam Research Corporation board of directors. He began his career at Raychem Corporation where, during his 13-year tenure, he held numerous finance roles of increasing responsibility in Europe and North America. After Tyco International, Ltd. acquired Raychem in 1999, Mr. Anstice assumed responsibility for supporting mergers and acquisitions at Tyco Electronics Corporation. Mr. Anstice serves as a director of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) and of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG). Mr. Anstice is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the United Kingdom.
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About Lam Research: Lam Research supplies wafer fabrication equipment and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry.
Paramesh Gopi
President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Micro Circuits
Dr. Paramesh Gopi joined us as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in June 2008 and was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2009. On April 29, 2009, Dr. Gopi became a member of our Board of Directors. From September 2002 to June 2008, he was with Marvell Semiconductor, a provider of mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits to broadband digital data networking markets, where he most recently served as Vice President and General Manager of the Embedded and Emerging Business Unit. At Marvell, Dr. Gopi held several executive-level positions including Chief Technology Officer of Embedded and Emerging Business Unit and Director of Technology Strategy. From June 2001 to August 2002, Dr. Gopi was Executive Director of Strategic Marketing and Applications at Conexant Systems, Inc., a mixed-signal processing company. He joined Conexant Systems, Inc. as part of its acquisition of Entridia Corporation in 2001. Dr. Gopi founded Entridia, a provider of Network Processing ASICs for Optical Networks, in 1999. Prior to Entridia, Dr. Gopi held principal engineering positions at Western Digital and Texas Instruments where he was responsible for the development of key mixed signal networking products. Dr. Gopi holds a PhD in Electrical and Computing Engineering and a Masters and Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Applied Micro Circuits, Starthub Nation: Applied Micro provides computing and connectivity solutions for cloud infrastructure and data centers.
Manju Hegde
CEO and Co-Founder of Uhnder
Manju Hegde is corporate vice president, AMD Global Business Unit, with responsibility for leading the development of the software ecosystem around AMD products. As head of AMD’s Content, Applications and Solutions team, Manju is responsible for driving and executing AMD’s ecosystem, strategy across the technology, marketing and business functions as well as directing AMD strategy and collaboration in engaging the computing ecosystem to shape the next generation of devices, environment, tools and application experiences made possible by the AMD‘s product roadmap. Before joining AMD, Manju was vice president of CUDA technical marketing at NVIDIA, where he focused on training and enabling researchers and developers to leverage the parallel architecture and performance of the GPU for general purpose applications. Prior to joining NVIDIA in 2008, Manju was co-founder and CEO of AGEIA Technologies (acquired by NVIDIA in 2008) since 2002, when he began his mission to minimize the challenge of physics in game development. From 1999 to 2001, Manju was co-founder and CTO of Celox Networks, which developed the industry’s leading edge router able to deliver high bandwidth applications with QoS. Manju was also a professor of electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and at Louisiana State University. Manju earned his Bachelors of Electrical Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his Ph. D in Computer Information and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also has his master’s degree in management from the University of Bombay.
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About Uhnder: Uhnder develops a digital automotive radar-on-chip designed to automate systems for safety and better feedback response.
Lisa Su
Chief Executive Officer of AMD
Dr. Su is AMD’s President and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD, a leading semiconductor manufacturer. Previously she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from July 2014 to October 2014 and Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Business Units from January 2012 to July 2014. Prior to joining AMD in January 2012, Dr. Su served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Networking and Multimedia at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. from 2008 to 2011 prior to that, as Chief Technology Officer from 2007 to 2008. Dr. Su also spent 13 years with IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions; and was a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments in the Semiconductor Process and Device Center. Ms. Su also serves as a director of AMD.
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About AMD: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Mike Slessor
Chief Executive Officer of FormFactor
Michael D. Slessor has served as the Chief Executive Officer of FormFactor, Inc. since December 2014, and as a Director since October 2013. Mike served as President from October 2013 to December 27, 2014, and as Senior Vice President and General Manager, MicroProbe Product Group from October 2012 to October 2013. Before joining FormFactor, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of MicroProbe from July 2008 through the October 2012 closing of FormFactor’s acquisition of MicroProbe. Prior to joining MicroProbe, he held various management, product-marketing, and applications-engineering positions in the semiconductor industry, primarily with KLA-Tencor. Mike received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Physics from the California Institute of Technology and his B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia.
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About FormFactor: FormFactor is a global leader in advanced wafer probe card technology and design, FormFactor is a mission critical supplier to top
Gary Dickerson
President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Materials
Gary Dickerson was named president of Applied Materials, Inc. in June 2012 and appointed chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors in September 2013. Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Mr. Dickerson is a long-time industry leader with more than 35 years of semiconductor experience and a strong track record of delivering profitable growth and gaining market share while achieving recognition for outstanding customer satisfaction. For each of the past three years, Mr. Dickerson has been named one of the “World’s Best CEOs” by Barron’s for delivering solid performance and a compelling growth strategy. He also ranked among Forbes’ list of “America’s Most Innovative Leaders” for 2019 and Harvard Business Review’s “Best-Performing CEOs in the World” for 2018. He currently serves on the board of directors of the U.S.-China Business Council. Prior to Applied Materials, he was CEO of Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. for seven years, until its acquisition by Applied Materials in 2011, and spent 18 years at KLA-Tencor Corporation where he held a variety of operations and product development roles before serving as president and chief operating officer. He began his semiconductor career in manufacturing and engineering management at General Motors’ Delco Electronics Division and AT&T Technologies. Mr. Dickerson holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering management from the University of Missouri, Rolla, and an MBA degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
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About Applied Materials: Applied Materials provides manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries.
Sanjay Mehrotra
President and CEO of Micron Technology
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About Micron Technology: Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Matt Murphy
President & Chief Executive Officer of Marvell
Matt Murphy is President and Chief Executive Officer of Marvell Technology. He has led the company since joining in July 2016 and also serves as a member of company’s Board of Directors. In his role as CEO, Matt is responsible for leading new technology development, directing ongoing operations and driving Marvell’s growth strategy. Prior to joining Marvell, Matt worked for Maxim Integrated, where he advanced through a series of business leadership roles over two decades. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President of Business Units and Sales & Marketing, overseeing all product development and go-to-market activities. In prior roles, Matt led the company’s communications, data center, and automotive business groups, all of which experienced significant growth under his leadership. Matt earned a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, and is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Syed Ali
CEO, President, & Founder of Cavium
Syed B. Ali is one of our founders and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors since the inception of the company in 2000. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Ali was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Malleable Technologies, a communication chip company of which he was a founding management team member. Malleable Technologies was acquired by PMC Sierra, a communication IC company in 2000. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Ali was an Executive Director at Samsung Electronics where he started the Flash memory and CPU businesses and put together the business plans that drove sales in each line to over a $100M in less than two years. Prior to that, he had various positions at Wafer Scale Integration, a division of SGS-Thompson, Tandem Computer, and American Microsystems. He received a BSEE from Osmania University, in Hyderabad, India and an M.S.E from the University of Michigan.
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About Alif Semiconductor, Cavium: Cavium Networks develops and markets semiconductor processors for intelligent and secure networks.
John Kibarian
CEO, Director & Co-Founder of PDF Solutions
John Kibarian is the CEO, president, and co-founder of PDF Solutions. Before founding the company in 1991, Dr. Kibarian was a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s SEMATECH Center for Rapid Yield Learning. At CMU, John developed algorithms for diagnosing process variations based on electrical test data and for achieving yield maximization based on circuit optimization and statistical simulation of processes and devices. Kibarian holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, all from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About PDF Solutions: PDF Solutions is a provider of yield improvement technologies and services for the IC manufacturing process life cycle.
Yoshinori Yamashita
President and CEO of Ricoh Company
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
David Lazovsky
Founder and CEO of Inorganic Intelligence
Mr. Lazovsky is the founder, president and CEO of Intermolecular. Prior to founding the company, he held several senior management positions at Applied Materials Inc. and was responsible for managing more than $1 billion in Applied’s semiconductor manufacturing equipment business. As director of product development and business management organizations in the thin films group, he worked closely with leading IC manufacturers to develop cutting-edge technology solutions. Mr. Lazovsky also served as director of business management for Europe and as technology program manager for Applied Material’s flagship 300mm metallization platform. He earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio University, and holds 16 pending or issued U.S. patents.
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About Inorganic Intelligence: Celestial AI develops data center and edge AI computing solutions.
Tony Yoon
EVP, SKhynix NAND Solution Division & CEO of SK Hynix
Tony Yoon is CEO of SK Hynix Memory Solutions. A seasoned technology executive in the data storage industry, he has led worldwide development for mobile, client, and enterprise SSD solutions. He is also recognized as a leading SoC expert, having designed many ASIC SoCs for HDD and SDD products. His expertise spans SSDs, flash controllers, firmware architecture, eMMC/UFS interfaces, NVMe, and emerging non-volatile memory technologies. He has over 25 years of experience in the storage industry. Before joining SK Hynix Memory Solutions, Mr. Yoon was VP Storage VLSI Group at Marvell Semiconductor. He earned his BSEE from UC Berkeley and holds over 50 patents in memory technology.
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About SK Hynix: SK Hynix is the global leader in producing semiconductor, such as DRAM and NAND flash and System IC including CMOS Image Sensors.
Simon Segars
CEO of Arm Holdings
Since joining Arm as one of its first employees, Simon has driven technical and business innovations to help transform the company into the leading architect of the most pervasive compute technology the world has ever seen. Simon led the development of early ground-breaking Arm processors – the Arm7 and Arm9 – powering the world’s first digital mobile phones. He played a key role in developing industry standards, and his engineering work led to him being granted several embedded-systems patents. He became vice president of engineering in 2001, and before being named as Arm CEO in July 2013, he held several other strategy positions including global head of sales. He was personally responsible for expanding the company’s U.S. business and strengthening its leadership and relationships in California’s Silicon Valley, where he still lives with his family. Simon helped steer the company through the 2016 acquisition by SoftBank, and, in June 2017, was elected to serve on the SoftBank board. He also sits on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance), TechWorks and is a non-executive director at Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Simon earned his BEng in electronic engineering from the University of Sussex and an MSc in computer science from the University of Manchester.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Zack Deiri
Chief Executive Officer of Crocus Technology
Zack Deiri brings to Crocus a successful track record with over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. His experience includes product and strategic marketing, sales and business development, IP and licensing, building and developing international organizations. He has held several senior positions with worldwide responsibilities at AMD, Spansion, ST Microelectronics and Motorola. Most recently Zack served as a Vice President of worldwide OEM business at SanDisk Corporation. Zack holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Southern Illinois University and completed numerous executive development programs.
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About Crocus Technology: Crocus Technology provides magnetic random access memory products and technologies for the semiconductor and electronic systems industries.
Gopi Sirineni
Chief Executive Officer of Axiado Corporation
Gopi Sirineni is the CEO of Axiado, spearheading transformative security technologies with AI in hardware. He is a Silicon Valley veteran with over 25 years of successes in the semiconductor, software and systems industries. Before joining Axiado, Gopi spent eight years as vice president of Qualcomm’s Wired/Wireless Infrastructure business unit where he developed Wi- Fi and Wi-Fi SON creating the market dominating technology. His career highlights include executive positions at Marvell Semiconductor, AppliedMicro, Cloud Grapes, and Ubicom that was acquired by Qualcomm under his direction. He has chaired IEEE Project Authorization Requests (PARs) and contributed to both Ethernet and Wi-Fi standards. His pioneering foresight into distributed mesh technology created the connected, AI-based home market segment.
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About Axiado Corporation: Security processor company redefining hardware root of trust with hardware-based security technologies, including per-system AI.
Satish Bagalkotkar
Chairman & CEO & Co-Founder of Synapse
Satish is Chairman/CEO and Co-founder of Synapse Design. With more than 20 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry, and the past 10 years guiding Synapse Design, Satish has developed a broad knowledge of the latest trends and challenges facing top tier technology companies. He has built an organization that is focused on creating high-end products in the storage, mobile, networking, cloud, IoT and multimedia space for most of the largest system and semiconductor companies in the world. Satish has spearheaded Synapse Design success through a focus on competency, technology and innovation in the biggest growth areas in the industry. He is also co-sponsoring several initiatives to help lead the development of cloud appliances for big data; biometrics including a focus on iris recognition for authentication and home automation; and a single platform for IoT space.
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About Synapse: Synapse is an industry leader in design services and is the engineering backbone of most top tier Semiconductor and System companies.
Avi Katz
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Gigpeak
Founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of GigOptix, Inc. Dr. Avi Katz has served as the Chairman of the board of directors, Chief Executive Officer & President of GigOptix LLC since inception in May 2007 and through its public offering in December 2007. Previously, Dr. Katz served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of iTerra Communications LLC, Intransa Inc., from 2003 to 2005, and Equator Technologies Inc., from 2000 to 2003. Earlier he served in various sales, marketing and operational executive positions following his tenure service as a Member of the Technical Staff in AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, between 1988 and 1995. Dr. Katz is active in philanthropy and among others serves as a board member for the Israeli Venture Network (IVN), a NFP social philanthropy network. He holds more than 70 U.S. and international patents, has published approximately 300 technical papers and is the editor of a number of technical books. Dr. Katz received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Technion-IIT, Israel, and is a graduate of the Israeli Naval Academy.
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About Gigpeak: GigOptix provides semiconductor and optical components that enable high-speed information streaming.
Pete Foley
Co-Founder and CEO of Ascenium
Pete Foley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ascenium.
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About Ascenium: Ascenium is a fabless semiconductor startup that develops a general-purpose microprocessor.
Bertrand Loy
President and CEO of Entegris
Bertrand Loy has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Entegris, Inc., since November 2012. Prior to that, he was the Chief Operating Officer since 2008 and Chief Administration Officer in charge of global supply chain from 2005 to 2008. Bertrand served as the Chief Financial Officer of Mykrolis from 2001 until the 2005 Merger with Entegris. From 1995 to 2000, Bertrand was the Controller and head of Manufacturing for Millipore’s Laboratory Water Division, before moving to the position of Corporate Chief Information Officer. He began his career with Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now Novartis) where he held various positions from 1989 to 1995 in Strategic Planning and Finance while based in Europe, Japan and Latin America.Bertrand Loy serves as a Director of Harvard Bioscience, a global manufacturer of a broad range of life science solutions. He also sits on the International Board of SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International).Bertrand holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School in France.
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About Entegris: Entegris products purify, protect, and transport critical materials within diverse industries such as semiconductor, data storage, chemical
Da Chuang
CEO & Co-founder of Expedera
Da Chuang is the CEO and Co-founder at Expedera.
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About Abrizio Systems, Expedera: Expedera provider of scalable neural engine semiconductor IP.
Steve Sanghi
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Microchip Technology
Mr. Steve Sanghi was named the President of Microchip in August 1990, Chief Executive Officer in October 1991 and the Chairman of the Board of Directors in October 1993. Before joining the Company, Mr. Sanghi was Vice President of Operations at Waferscale Integration, Inc., a semiconductor company, from 1988 to 1990. Mr. Sanghi was employed by Intel Corporation from 1978 to 1988, where he held various positions in management and engineering, the most recent serving as General Manager of Programmable Memory Operations. Mr. Sanghi holds a Masters of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and Communication from Punjab University, India.
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About Microchip Technology, Microchip Technology Ireland: Microchip Technology develops and manufactures semiconductor products for various embedded control applications worldwide.
Fumihide Esaka
Chairman & CEO of Ambiq Micro
Fumihide Esaka has 20 years’ senior management experience in the semiconductor industry. He joined International Rectifier as a Vice President in 1995, having previously spent six years as a manager at consultancy firm, Accenture. He later became President and CEO of Nihon Inter Electronics Corp. and from 2013 was CEO of power conversion specialist, Transphorm Inc. before joining Ambiq Micro in December 2015.
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About Ambiq Micro: Ambiq Micro is a semiconductor manufacturing company that develops mixed-signal solutions for wireless electronics.
Horst Muenzel
Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Akustica
Dr. Horst Muenzel brings to Akustica over 20 years of experience in engineering, manufacturing, and marketing of high volume, high quality sensors. Most recently the Regional President for the Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, CA, Dr. Muenzel previously held other senior positions at Bosch including Vice President of MEMS Engineering in the Automotive Electronics Division. He started his career at Bosch in 1989 as the Director of MEMS Engineering where he was a core member of the startup team for MEMS sensors. This team developed the first generation of MEMS sensors at Bosch and transferred these concepts into large scale series production technologies. Dr. Muenzel has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
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About Akustica: Akustica is a fabless semiconductor company developing single-chip digital and analog microphones used in phones and headsets.
Raouf Halim
President & CEO of Spectra7 Microsystems
Beginning in 2014, Raouf Halim served as CEO and co-founder of icClarity, developing a disruptive 3D video capture solution for applications in AR/VR, mobile, and automotive markets. Prior to icClarity he served for ten years as president, CEO, & board member of Mindspeed Technologies, where he rebuilt the executive team, repositioned their product portfolio, and executed a successful growth strategy for high-performance analog. Previously, Halim was a senior vice president and general manager at Conexant Systems, Inc., formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems. Mr. Halim joined Rockwell in 1991 and held a number of senior business and technical positions, including vice president, and design leader for VLSI engineering. He began his career at Hayes Microcomputer Products developing first-of-their-kind technologies and applications. Mr. Halim’s Master’s degree in electrical engineering was earned at Georgia Institute of Technology, and his bachelor’s degree in communications and electro physics was received from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. Mr. Halim holds 14 patents, and is active in a number of industry and community organizations as well as several advisory roles within the University of California, Irvine.
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About icClarity, Spectra7 Microsystems: Spectra7 Microsystems specializes in the fields of wireless infrastructure and data center active cables.
Tony Stelliga
CEO of Spectra7 Microsystems
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About Redmere Technology, Spectra7 Microsystems: Spectra7 Microsystems specializes in the fields of wireless infrastructure and data center active cables.
Joy Weiss
President & CEO of Tempo Automation
Joy Weiss, currently President of Dust Networks at Analog Devices, has held executive leadership positions over the past 35 years at a variety of private and public technology companies. Joy was CEO of Dust Networks, a pioneer in industrial wireless sensor networking, when it was acquired by Linear Technology in 2011, and she has served on the boards of several private companies in Silicon Valley. She is currently on the board of Vigilent and Tempo Automation. Joy is also the Chair of the board of Playworks, a national non-profit based in Oakland, CA. Joy holds a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Analog Devices, InkSpace Imaging, Tempo Automation: Tempo Automation is transforming the way companies innovate and bring new electronic products to market.
Gerald Yin
CEO of Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment
Gerald (Zheyao) Yin has served as AMEC’s chairman and CEO since the company was founded in 2004. He brings more than 28 years of product development and executive management experience in the semiconductor equipment industry. Prior to AMEC, Dr. Yin spent 13 years at Applied Materials. While there, he held a variety of executive positions, including corporate vice president and general manager of the Etch product business group, vice president of Asia sourcing and procurement, and chief technology officer of Applied Materials Asia. Dr. Yin joined Intel central technology development when he first arrived in Silicon Valley in 1984. In 1986, he moved to Lam Research, where he led the Etch technology development and introduction initiatives for several key products. Dr. Yin received his Bachelor of Science in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology, China. He pursued his graduate studies at Beijing University, Department of Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to his U.S. experience, he served the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a research group leader where he received two national science team awards. He holds 74 U.S. patents, with more pending.
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About Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment: Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment provides microfabrication services for the semiconductor and high-tech industries.
George Minassian
CO-Founder & CEO of Crossbar
Dr. George Minassian has been a co-founder and CEO of Crossbar since 2010.A seasoned veteran of the semiconductor memory industry, Dr. Minassian brings Crossbar 25 years of experience in systems, logic design, new business development, and product development. Over his extensive career, Dr. Minassian has a proven track record of developing commercially successful, leading-edge products. From 2002 to 2010, Dr. Minassian held a variety of positions at Spansion, a leading innovator of Flash memory solutions, most recently as vice president of System and Software Engineering where he led the $1.2 billion Flash Memory business targeting the cellular wireless market segment.While at Spansion, he developed and established new industry standards in emerging technologies such as PISMO and achieved a successful track record for large-scale product development and management. From 1999-2002, Dr. Minassian was director of Wireless Engineering at Advanced Micro Devices, a microprocessor leader, where he developed the industry’s first CMOS RF process and complete 802.11b/a chipset and reference designs.Dr. Minassian holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Crossbar: Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
Martin Roscheisen
Founder & CEO of Diamond Foundry
The entrepreneur behind eGroups (acquired by Yahoo), FindLaw (acquired by Thomson Reuters), and Nanosolar.
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About Diamond Foundry: Diamond Foundry produces diamonds at mining scale using a proprietary reactor technology.
Bill Brennan
CEO & President of Credo Semiconductor
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About Credo Semiconductor: Credo is a provider of semiconductor solutions for the data center and 5G wireless markets.
Terrence Smith
Chief Executive Officer of Smith & Associates
Terrence Smith is Chief Executive Officer at Smith & Associates.
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About Smith & Associates: Global semiconductor distributor
Lothar Maier
CEO of Linear Technology
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About Linear Technology: Linear Technology Corporation has built a reputation as the premier analog semiconductor company in the industry.
Isaac Litman
Founder and CEO of Neteera
Mr. Litman founded Neteera after serving as CEO for Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY) Aftermarket for six years until the IPO. Prior to that Mr. Litman served as CEO for Telepath, Motorola´s exclusive distributor in Israel and East Europe, CEO for ABSC, focused on business intelligence and development and was also a special projects manager for the Israeli Prime Minister´s office. Mr. Litman graduated from the Tel-Aviv University Law school, holds a B.A in Economics from the Tel-Aviv University and an MBA from the Bar-Ilan University. Mr. Litman was honourably discharged from the Israeli army with rank of Major and his last active duty position was as reconnaissance company commander.
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About Neteera: Neteera developed an AI-powered sensing platform to reduce treatment failures & improve outcomes in health screening, diagnosis & treatment.
Abid Hussain
Co-Founder/CEO of Celera
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About Celera: Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Crush the Barriers to Realizing Custom Silicon
John Levy
Co-CEO, Chair, and Co-Founder of SeeQC
John Levy is the Co-CEO, Chair, and Co-Founder of SeeQC.
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About BioLite, Hypres, PlusN (+n ), SeeQC: SeeQC is a semiconductor company developing commercially viable application-specific quantum computing systems for global businesses.
Arthur Zafiropoulo
Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of Ultratech
Arthur W. Zafiropoulo is Board of Trustees at Northeastern University.
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About Ultratech: Ultratech develops, manufactures, and markets photolithography and laser thermal processing equipment.
Shawn Murphy
Founder | Chief Executive Officer | Chief Technology Officer of Titan Advanced Energy Solutions
Shawn Murphy is the co-founder, CEO, and CTO of Titan Advanced Energy Solutions.
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About Titan Advanced Energy Solutions: Titan Advanced Energy Solutions is a provider of ultrasound-based battery management solutions
James J. Peterson
CEO of Microsemi
Mr. James J. Peterson is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Microsemi Corporation.He served as President of LinFinity Microelectronics, Inc., a manufacturer of linear and mixed signal integrated from 1997 to 1999 and as its Vice President of Sales from 1996 to 1997. We acquired LinFinity Microelectronics, Inc. in 1999. Prior to joining LinFinity Microelectronics, Inc., Mr. Peterson served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Corporate Communications of Texas Instruments Storage Products Group from 1984 to 1996. Mr. Peterson was a Director of STEC, Inc., a storage solutions technology company based in Santa Ana, California, from 2003 to 2009. Mr. Peterson possesses significant experience in our industry and contributes detailed knowledge of our Company’s strategy and operations to the Board of Directors.
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About Microsemi: Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions.
Steve Poizner
Co-Founder, CEO of oneNav
Steve Poizner has launched, grown, and sold three tech companies in Silicon Valley; managed a portfolio of a dozen start-ups as an SVP for Qualcomm; worked at the highest levels in state and federal government; and volunteered for a year as a public high school teacher. A few of his key accomplishments include transforming the mobile phone market by inventing a way to integrate GPS into handsets thereby saving tens of thousands of lives and enabling a new multi-billion-dollar location-based services sector. While working as a White House Fellow, he helped develop a post-9/11 Homeland Security plan for the National Security Council. As the elected CA Insurance Commissioner, he modernized California’s Department of Insurance, resulting in multi-billion dollars in cost savings for consumers. Mr. Poizner was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014.
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About Alliance for Southern California Innovation, oneNav: OneNav provides a mobile positioning system intended for smartphones, wearables, and IoT tracking devices.
Alan J Armstrong
CEO of CNEX Labs
Alan Armstrong is CEO at CNEX LABS.
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About CNEX Labs: CNEX provides revolutionary solid-state storage semiconductor and software solutions for cloud, hyper-scale, and enterprise data centers.
Michael Galinski
CEO and Founder of America II Electronics
Michael Galinski jumpstarted his career in the electronics industry as an account executive with New York’s Pulsar Components International. In 1984, he moved onto Quasar Components, International, to serve as president and CEO. Five years later, with a dream of establishing a successful distributorship in the integrated circuit market, Mr. Galinski moved to Clearwater, Fla., to build America II from conception to realization as one of the industry’s leading independent distributors. Since then, Mr. Galinski has made a trusted name for himself and his company through proven experience, impeccable knowledge of the semiconductor market and an ability to forecast market trends. Named Florida Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. Magazine (1994), Mr. Galinski demonstrates instinctive business acumen and an open management style that continues to earn him distinction among industry professionals and employees alike.
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About America II Electronics: America II Electronics is a semiconductors company specializing in semiconductors and electronic components.
Thar Casey
Chief Executive Officer, President and Founder of Amber Solutions
Mr. Casey is Founder, President and CEO of Amber Solutions, Inc. Prior to Amber, he was President of IDEX America Inc. Mr. Casey also served as Co-Fournder, President and Chief Executive Officer of PicoField Technologies, Inc., which was acquired by IDEX. He is a veteran entrepreneur with a strong background in operations, finance and extensive experience in developing leading technology based companies from product concept to high volume manufacturing. He co-founded Insound Medical and served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Operations. Insound was acquired by Sonova-Phonak in 2011 for a total of $169 million. In addition, he co-founded Prenateck, a fetal heart rate monitor, serving as Chief Executive Officer. Founded Phantom IT Solutions serving as Chief Executive Officer and also served as Vice President of Finance at the Monterey Bay Bank. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Intelesol, PicoField Technologies, and STR. Mr. Casey holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from California State University, Hayward.
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About Amber Solutions: Amber Solutions is a developer of patented solid-state technologies for the digital control of electricity.
Wonyoung Kim
CEO & Co-Founder of Lion Semiconductor
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About Lion Semiconductor: Lion Semiconductor is an electronics company that specializes in electronic components such as capacitors, resistors, and transistors.
Ashok Krishnamoorthy
CEO & CO-Founder of Axalume
Develops silicon photonic integrated circuits that remove bandwidth, latency, and connectivity bottlenecks in datacenters. Axalume’s breakthrough optical switching photonic integrated circuits will enable datacenters to cost effectively scale.
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About Axalume: Axalume has developed proprietary technologies that combine silicon photonic circuits
Anthony Githinji
President & CEO of 4wave
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About 4wave: 4Wave’s goal is to exceed the expectations of its clients.
Scott Keeney
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of nLIGHT
Scott Keeney is a co-founder, the president, and the chief executive officer of [nLIGHT Corp.](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nlight/insights/current-people/jds-uniphase-corporation), a manufacturer of next generation fiber lasers based on diode and fiber technology. He is also the former chief executive officer of Aculight. Prior to joining Aculight, Keeney served McKinsey & Company as a consultant. In 2006, he received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the technology category for the Pacific Northwest. Keeney holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and design from the University of Washington and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About nLIGHT: nLIGHT is a technology company that manufactures a range of fiber lasers based on diode and fiber technology.
John Hoffman
CEO of Pivotal Systems
John Hoffman has over 25 years of global high technology management experience building growth organizations in both the semiconductor and information technology markets. Prior to joining Pivotal Systems, John was a Senior VP with Spencer Trask Ventures, a New York based venture capital firm. While at Spencer Trask, John was primarily involved in the solar and integrated circuit efforts of the firm. Prior to Spencer Trask, John was the Chief Executive Officer of RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, an Inc 500 fastest growing private company. John reorganized the company and enabled record growth in revenue and profitability during his tenure. Prior to RagingWire, John worked in various general manager roles at Applied Materials for 18 years. He was the President of the billion dollar “Etch Product Business Group”, VP and GM of the Process Control and Diagnostic Business Group and the General Manager of the Customer Service Division which grew by over 300% during his tenure. John has a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an Executive MBA (AEA) from Stanford University. He currently serves on several Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards.
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About Pivotal Systems: Pivotal Systems provides process matching solutions for the semiconductor industry.
Nathan Ramasarma
Founder & CEO of formsense
Tech. entrepreneur & storyteller.
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About ArcSecond, Inc., formsense: formsense reduces injuries, maximizes performance and accelerates recovery for professional sports teams and their athletes.
Robert Blake
CEO of Achronix Semiconductor
Robert Blake is the Chief Executive Officer at Achronix Semiconductor Corp.
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About Achronix Semiconductor: Achronix offers high-density and high-performance application-targeted FPGAs for communication applications.
Andrew Rickman
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Rockley Photonics
Andrew Rickman currently serves Rockley Photonics as CEO. Prior to this, Andrew spent six years with Kotura as a chairman.
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About Rockley Photonics, The Rockley Group: Rockley Photonics manufactures photonics chips and custom integrated packaged products.
Tom Rohrs
Chairman & CEO of Ichor Systems
Tom Rohrs has served as Executive Chairman for Ichor Systems since 2012, and brings an extensive background of executive managerial experience to Ichor Systems. Mr. Rohrs has served at an executive capacity in high-profile Silicon Valley companies including Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics. Mr. Rohrs also served on the Executive Committee of Applied Materials from 1998 to 2002. With his experience as an executive of one of our major customers, as well as the CEO of both a semiconductor equipment company as well as a solar company prior to coming to Ichor, Mr. Rohrs brings with him the perspective and acumen necessary to lead Ichor into a more promising tomorrow. Mr. Rohrs graduated from University of Notre Dame with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and received a MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About Ichor Systems: Ichor Systems is a Preferred Choice in the Semiconductor, LED, OLED, Alternative Energy.
Tunc Doluca
President & Chief Executive Officer of Maxim Integrated
Tunç Doluca joined Maxim in 1984 as a Member of Technical Staff. Tunç has personally designed over 40 products and holds 11 patents. In 1993, he was named the company’s Vice President of R&D. In 1994, he became the founding General Manager of the Portable Power Business Unit. By 2005, Tunç’s responsibilities had expanded to managing seven business units and he was promoted to Group President. In 2007, Tunç became the second Chief Executive Officer in the company’s history. During his tenure as CEO, Maxim reorganized product development around end markets and completed six strategic acquisitions. Tunç oversaw the transition of Maxim’s manufacturing to a more flexible hybrid production model and improved overall manufacturing execution. In 2010, Maxim was one of the first analog companies to transition to 300mm wafer technology. In 2015, Tunç reorganized the company, creating a single organization combining all Business Units along with Sales & Marketing, as well as a focused effort on New Ventures. This new structure will allow the company to better align its current business with the needs of customers, while freeing resources to explore new business opportunities outside of our core business. Tunç was born in Ankara, Turkey, and he holds a BSEE degree from Iowa State University and an MSEE degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He serves on the board of directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
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About Maxim Integrated: Maxim Integrated designs, manufactures, and sells analog and mixed-signal products and technologies.
Judd Chism
Founder & CEO of Xitronix
Judd Chism is a founder of Xitronix Corporation and serves as CEO. He has been instrumental in launching the company from start-up, including raising private investment capital. Prior to founding Xitronix, Judd worked in investment banking, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory and capital raising. Judd received his BBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a CFA charterholder and a certified public accountant.
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About Xitronix: Xitronix manufactures and markets polarization modulation photo-reflectance metrology equipment for the semiconductor industry.
Anil Narasimha
Founder & CEO of Mekonos
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About Mekonos: Mekonos creates a proprietary cell-engineering platform designed for cell therapies on a chip.
Bruno Morel
Chairman / CEO of aveni
Bruno Morel came to aveni with more than 25 years of experience developing innovative products and managing global teams for the world’s largest semiconductor and renewable energy companies in Silicon Valley, California. Most recently, Bruno served as vice president of product management for Satcon Technology Inc., where he was responsible for all aspects of product strategy. Before Satcon, he served as president and CEO of Semiconductor Tooling Services, doubling the company’s revenue in less than two years and increasing production capacity by 127 percent. Bruno also held management positions at Novellus Systems, where he managed all aspects of global engineering activities for high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition, as well as at Lam Research. Earlier in his career, at Applied Materials, he was instrumental in re-architecting mission-critical products and processes. Born in Grenoble, Bruno studied electrical engineering in France.
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About aveni: Aveni offers novel metallization technology that enables the future of semiconductor manufacturing.
Jack Zhao
CEO and Chairman of Parade Technologies
Jack Zhao is a co-founder of Parade and has served as the company’s CEO and Chairman of the Board since January 2011. From 2005 through 2010, Dr. Zhao was the company’s President and CEO and Board Co-Chairman. He has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Parade, Dr. Zhao served as the VP of Engineering at a company that he co-founded, Cerdelinx Technologies, which was acquired by Lattice Semiconductor in 2002. Prior to Cerdelinx, Dr. Zhao served in various management positions at Cypress Semiconductor, National Semiconductor, and Trident Microsystems. He received his Ph.D. in EE from the University of California, Irvine, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Shanghai Jiaotong University.
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About Parade Technologies: Parade Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company specialized in developing high-speed video interfacing and processing products.
K. Charles Janac
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of Arteris IP
K. Charles Janac is president and CEO of ArterisIP where he is responsible for growing and establishing a strong global presence for the company that is pioneering the concept of NoC technology. Charlie’s career spans 20 years and multiple industries including electronic design automation, semiconductor capital equipment, nano-technology, industrial polymers and venture capital. In the first decade of his career, he held various marketing and sales positions at Cadence Design Systems (NYSE: CDN) where he helped build it into one of the ten largest software companies in the world. He joined HLD Systems as president, shifting the company’s focus from consulting services to IC floor planning software and building the management, distribution and customer support organizations. He then formed Smart Machines, manufacturer of semiconductor automation equipment and sold it to Brooks Automation (NASDAQ: BRKS). After a year as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Infinity Capital, a leading early-stage Venture Capital firm, where he consulted on Information Technology investment opportunities, he joined Nanomix as president and CEO helping build this start-up nano-technology company. K. Charles Janac holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Organic Chemistry from Tufts University and an M.B.A from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Arteris IP: Arteris provides network on chip interconnect IPs that improve performance, power consumption and die size of SoC devices.
Salah Werfelli
President & Chief Executive Officer of BaySand
Salah Werfelli has over 30 years of experience in system and integrated circuit (IC) design, and Executive Management and leadership. Before Co-Founding BaySand he was an Executive Vice President for eASIC. Prior to serving in that position he was an Executive Consultant to major start-up companies where he was instrumental in establishing strategic directions and business partnerships.Earlier, he worked with Cadence Design Systems where he held various executive positions including corporate Vice President of Technology, responsible for M&A and business development worldwide. While serving with Cadence, he was the chief architect for the EDA industry’s first major outsourcing project with Unisys Corp. Prior to serving at Cadence, Mr. Werfelli was Vice President of International Field Operations, Corporate Support and Services Worldwide at Magma Design Automation. Mr. Werfelli received a B.S.E.E. degree from Washington University School of Engineering, St Louis, MO. He was a graduate of the “EPSE” program offered by the University of California San Diego (UCSD), and earned an Engineering PhD from Rochville University. Salah was an instructor for the Dale Carnegie institute, teaching their Effective Speaking and Human Relations Course.
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About BaySand: BaySand is the leader in application configurable ASICs.
Amine Chabane
CEO/Co-Founder of Marseille Networks
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About Marseille Networks: Marseille Networks offers technologies for video processing, compression and networking, and semiconductor development.
Jim Cowie
Advisor to the CEO of Cadence Design Systems
Jim Cowie is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Cadence. Cowie is responsible for Cadence® worldwide legal operations, covering matters such as commercial transactions, corporate governance, employment, export compliance, finance, government affairs, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and stock administration activities. Under his leadership, his organization deploys professionals in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Japan, and North America. Cowie, who has been with Cadence since 2000, most recently served as Corporate Vice President – Business Development and Associate General Counsel, a role in which he was responsible for the execution of Cadence’s acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions as well as being the company’s lead lawyer for corporate and securities matters. Before joining Cadence, Cowie was counsel for several divisions of National Data Corporation, a provider of health information services and electronic commerce solutions. Prior to that, he was an associate at Troutman Sanders LLP in Atlanta. Cowie received his undergraduate degree in economics, magna cum laude, from Duke University and his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School. Before law school, he served four years of active duty in the United States Navy, the last three years aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, leaving active service as a Lieutenant.
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About Cadence Design Systems, Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC: Cadence Design Systems develops electronic design automation, software, hardware and silicon intellectual property technologies.
Gadi Krieger
Founder and CEO of QualiTau
Gadi Krieger is the founder of QualiTau in 1991. Dr. Krieger is the Process Development Manager at VLSI Technology Inc. for five years. He is responsible for the integration of advanced CMOS technologies. Before joining VLSI, Dr. Krieger worked on CMOS technology development at AMD and on latchup analysis, ESD protection and EPROM development at WaferScale Integration Inc. Dr. Krieger has published numerous technical papers on device physics and reliability. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in 1983 and 1980, respectively, and his B.Sc from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, all in Electrical Engineering.
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About QualiTau: QualiTau provides test lab services for both fabless companies and foundries that seek for independent evaluation and analysis.
John C.C. Fan
President & Chief Executive Officer of Kopin
John Fan is the Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Kopin Corporation. In 1985, Dr. Fan started Kopin with a group of MIT engineers and scientists. Under his leadership, Kopin became the leading provider of HBT transistor wafers for mobile phones and small-format active-matrix liquid crystal displays for military systems and mobile consumer devices like video cameras. Dr. Fan has authored about 200 publications, edited three books and has over 50 issued patents. Dr. Fan was an early advocate of wearable computer headsets with an early patent issued on this technology in 1998 (US Patent 5,815,126). In 1999, Dr. Fan received the Special Recognition Award from the Society of Information Displays (SID) and was chosen one of the Top 25 Asian American Entrepreneurs by Asia Week. He was also selected as one of the top 100 Asian American Entrepreneurs between 1999 and 2004 by Asia.net. Dr. Fan was the Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000, and was also chosen as their National Finalist. In 2005, he was selected as one of the USA’s top 15 nanotechnology innovators by NASA’s Nanotech Briefs. Dr. Fan obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, with highest honors. He attended Harvard University under a University Fellowship and obtained his Master and Ph. D. degrees in Applied Physics in 1972. From 1972 to 1985, Dr. Fan carried out research on semiconductor materials and devices at Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was Associate Leader of the Electronic Materials Group.
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About Kopin: Kopin Corporation’s voice-activated, wireless, hands-free Golden-i mobile computing headsets, power-efficient, ultra-small liquid
Jeffrey Jacobsen
Chief AR System Architect – Program Mgr. & Sr. Adviser to CEO of Kopin
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About Kopin: Kopin Corporation’s voice-activated, wireless, hands-free Golden-i mobile computing headsets, power-efficient, ultra-small liquid
Robert H. Swan
CEO of Intel Corporation (UK)
Mr. Robert H. Swan, also known as Bob, has been the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance of Ebay Inc., since March 16, 2006. Mr. Swan served as an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of HP Enterprise Services, LLC (Formerly Electronic Data Systems LLC) from February 2003 to March 15, 2006. Prior to joining Electronic Data Systems Corp., he served as an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of TRW Aeronautical Systems (formerly, TRW Inc., Aeronautical Unit.) from July 2001 to December 2002 and also served as its Member of Committee on Management. Mr. Swan served as an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corporation (formerly TRW, Inc.) since July 2001. Mr. Swan served in Executive positions at Webvan Group Inc. from 1999 to 2001, including Chief Executive Officer from April 2001 to July 2001, Chief Operating Officer from September 2000 to July 2001 and Chief Financial Officer from October 1999 to July 2001. He served as Vice President of Finance of Webvan Group Inc., from October 1999 to February 2000 and also served as its Principal Accounting Officer. From September 1985 to October 1999, Mr. Swan held variety of positions at General Electric Company, including as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of GE Lighting LLC from May 1998 to October 1999. From January 1997 to June 1998, Mr. Swan served as Vice President of Finance of GE Medical Systems in Europe. He served as Chief Financial Officer of GE Transportation Systems from October 1994 to January 1997. From May 1988 to October 1994, Mr. Swan served several assignments with GE’s Corporate Audit Staff. He has been Director of GSI Commerce Inc. since June 2011. He has been Director of Applied Materials Inc. since March 2009. He has been a Director of Skype Global S.à r.l. since December 2009. He served as a Director of Webvan Group Inc. since April 2001. Mr. Swan holds a BS in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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About Intel Corporation (UK): Intel Corporation manufactures microprocessors for desktop and notebook PCs, servers, and workstations.
Avi Shabtai
CEO of MultiPhy
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About MultiPhy, Ramon.Space: MultiPhy is a pioneer in Data Center connectivity infrastructure, providing next generation ICs at 100G speeds.
William McLean
Chief Executive Officer of AnDAPT
William McLean has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. William McLean was the CEO of Ozmo Devices, focused on WiFi Direct. Ozmo Devices was acquired by Atmel where William McLean was the Vice President and General Manager of their WiFi Solutions Business Unit. William McLean was also the co-founder and CEO of GloNav which developed GPS solutions for the mobile industry. GloNav was acquired by NXP. As well, William McLean was Chairman of Firecomms which developed optical solutions for the plastic optical fiber market. Firecomms was acquired by the ZJF Group in China. William McLean also held executive positions at Anadigm and Parthus.
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About AnDAPT: AnDAPT brings a new kind Analog and Digital Adaptive Platform Technology.
Rick Seger
Founder, Chairman & CEO of SigmaSense
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About 3AxisData, SigmaSense: SigmaSense provides a digital and fully-scalable sensing technology to solve the noise immunity and tuning challenges of touch sensors.
Michael W. Pippins
President and Chief Executive Officer of Persimmon Technologies
Michael has over 28 years of management experience leading business growth for Semiconductor Equipment and related companies. He founded Persimmon Technologies in 2010 to serve the next generation requirements in vacuum robotic solutions. Michael previously held management positions with Brooks Automation, Varian Semiconductor Equipment, ASM Ion Implant, and Leybold Heraeus. He most recently held the position of President for the ASD Division of Brooks Automation which he led the company’s automation growth from $6M to over $300M in revenues, raised over $600M in IPO and secondary offerings, negotiated, closed, and integrated 9 acquisitions, and held board seats on joint ventures with Samsung in Korea and Yaskawa in Japan. Michael was also granted 4 patents in robotics and automation systems while serving at Brooks. He received his Certificate of Special Studies in Business Administration at Harvard University, subsequent to his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with High Honors at Southern Polytechnic State University.
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About Persimmon Technologies: Persimmon Technologies manufactures atmospheric and vacuum robotics, vacuum modules, and automation systems.
Shahriar Rokhsaz
President and CEO of RFMicron
Shahriar Rokhsaz serves as Chief Executive Officer and President at RFMicron.
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About RFMicron: RFMicron produces integrated circuits for mission-critical RFID tags and passive wireless sensors using ChameleonTM technology.
Tom Caulfield
CEO & Founder of GlobalFoundries
Dr. Thomas Caulfield is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GF and was elected to the board of directors in March 2018. Dr. Caulfield joined the company in May 2014 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company’s Fab 8 semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility in Malta, NY, where he led operations, expansion and the ramp-up of semiconductor manufacturing production. Dr. Caulfield has an extensive career spanning engineering, management and global operational leadership with leading technology companies. Prior to joining GF, Dr. Caulfield served as President and Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Soraa from May 2012 to May 2014, the world’s leading developer of GaN on GaNTM (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) solid-state lighting technology. Before Soraa, Dr. Caulfield served as President and COO of Ausra from 2009 to 2010, a leading provider of large-scale concentrated solar power solutions for electricity generation and industrial steam production. Prior to leading at Ausra, Dr. Caulfield served as Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Service at Novellus Systems, Inc. Before that, Dr. Caulfield spent 17 years at IBM in a variety of senior leadership roles, ultimately serving as vice president of 300mm semiconductor operations for IBM’s Microelectronics division, leading its wafer fabrication operations in East Fishkill, NY.
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About Caitin, GlobalFoundries: GlobalFoundries is an American full-service semiconductor foundry that manufactures integrated circuits in high volume.
Stephen S. Schwartz
President & Chief Executive Officer of Brooks Automation
Dr. Stephen S. Schwartz was appointed President of Brooks Automation on April 5, 2010. Dr. Schwartz is a highly regarded senior executive well known throughout the global semiconductor industry. He began his career at Applied Materials, Inc. in Santa Clara, California and over the course of fourteen years he held a number of senior leadership roles including head of Applied’s Global Service Business Group and President of their first software business unit. Following Applied, Dr. Schwartz was the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Asyst Technologies, Inc. for eight years.
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About Brooks Automation: Brooks Automation provides automation, vacuum, and instrumentation solutions to the worldwide semiconductor manufacturing industry.
Roy E. Jewell
Chief Executive Officer , Co-founder and President of Palma Ceia SemiDesign
Roy Jewell is a co-founder and President of PCS. With more than 35 years experience in the semiconductor and Electronic Design Automation industries, Roy was most recently President and COO of Magma Design Automation. Roy guided Magma through its IPO on the Nasdaq and its eventual $500 million acquisition by Synopsys in 2012. Prior to Magma, Roy was on the Executive Staff of EDA company Avant! Corporation and CEO of Technology Modeling Associates, which Roy took public on Nasdaq in 1996. Before joining TMA he spent more than 8 years at Texas Instruments. Based in Los Altos, California, Roy holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Physics from the University of South Florida and a master’s degree in Management from the University of Texas at Dallas.
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About Palma Ceia SemiDesign: Palma Ceia SemiDesign offers analog and RF IP for emerging WiFi, LTE, and wireline applications.
Tim Townley
Chief Executive Officer of INNOViON
Tim Townley is Chief Executive Officer at INNOViON.
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About INNOViON: INNOViON is the global leader in foundry services and support of ion implantation for the microelectronics industry.
Charles Schaper
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Transfer Devices
Charles D. Schaper, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, has raised for TDIheadshot2 Series A and Series B preferred stock financings, as well as project-based financing. He developed the founding technology for TDI comprised of novel nanolithography processes, materials, and applications as a Senior Research Scientist of Stanford University, which has been granted approximately twenty international patents associated with this technology platform. His Ph.D. is in chemical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Schaper was also a principal investigator with DARPA and the National Science Foundation.
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About Transfer Devices: Transfer Devices (TDI) was founded in 2004 to commercialize research in molecular transfer lithography.
Hong Yu Li
CEO & Founder of BlueX Microelectronics
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About BlueX Microelectronics: BlueX Microelectronics Corp. is a fabless semiconductor company.
Muhammad Faisal, Ph.D.
CEO of Movellus
Dr. Faisal is currently the CEO of Movellus Circuits, a company founded with a vision to revolutionize the semiconductor design.
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About Movellus: Movellus is developing disruptive technologies for semiconductor design.
Fares Mubarak
CEO of SPARK Microsystems
Fares Mubarak is the CEO of SPARK Microsystems. He has a master’s degree in Business Administration at Golden Gate University.
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About SPARK Microsystems: SPARK is the enabling wireless technology of the future.
Mario Rivas
President & CEO of Transphorm
Mario leads all functional areas of Transphorm and brings over 30 years of executive level leadership to the company. Prior to joining Transphorm, Mario was president and CEO of the semiconductor company ANADIGICS. Before ANADIGICS, he was the CEO of Quartics, a fabless semiconductor and software company. Mario has also held executive positions at AMD, Philips Semiconductor, and Motorola. Mario earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas” as well as a M.S. in Semiconductor Physics and M.S. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About Transphorm: Transphorm is a producer of gallium nitride-based solutions for high-voltage power conversion applications.
Tom Doyle
CEO of Aspinity
Tom brings over 30 years of experience in technology and semiconductors to Aspinity, primarily focused on analog and RF, including experience with 2 startup companies. Prior to joining Aspinity, Tom was responsible for business development/management for Cadence analog/mixed signal business focused on successful deployments of technology at leading semiconductor companies worldwide including all contract approvals. Previously, Tom was founder and president of a successful startup, where he was responsible for all operational facets of the company including, sales and marketing, offshore partners/distributors, and engineering teams in the US and Asia. He has experience in deploying technology to leading semiconductor companies and silicon foundries worldwide. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University and his MBA from California State University, Long Beach.
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About Aspinity: Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors.
Thomas B. Pickens III
Chairman & CEO of Astrotech
Thomas B. Pickens III is the CEO Astrotech & CEO AgLAB.
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About AgLAB, Astral Images, Astrogenetix, Astrotech: Astrotech operates as a science and technology development and commercialization company.
Baratunde Cola
CEO and Founder of Carbice Corporation
CEO and Founder at Carbice Nanotechnologies
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About Carbice Corporation, Georgia Institute of Technology: Carbice is developing a product used to dissipate heat away from product packaging to stop electronic devices from overheating.
Ben Lee
President & CEO of MCube
Ben Lee is President and Chief Executive Officer of mCube. He has over 20 years of senior management experience in the semiconductor industry with a successful track record of driving rapid revenue and profit growth. As CEO, Ben is responsible for shaping the strategic direction of mCube and leading the organization to increase shareholder value. Prior to mCube, he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation where he delivered historic seven consecutive quarters of growth. Prior to Cypress, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Trident Microsystems and Chief Operating Officer at Apexone Microelectronics, based in Shanghai. Ben has also served as Vice President Asia Pacific Sales at Altera Corporation, General Manager of China at National Semiconductor Corporation and Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing. Ben began his career as a System Integration Engineer at IBM’s Federal Systems Division in New York. He holds a BSEE from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a MBA from Golden Gate University, San Francisco. Mr. Lee serves on the Industry Advisory Board for Cal Poly Electrical Engineering and is a Board Director of Ten Degrees, Inc.
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About MCube, Sand Hill Angels, Sand Hill Angels: mCube offers a complete portfolio of motion sensor hardware and software solutions for its clients.
Robert Snowberger
Chief Executive Officer of Nantero
Robert Snowberger is the Chief Executive Officer at Nantero.
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About Nantero: Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile.
Ara Philipossian
Co-Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of Araca
Ara Philipossian has been a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arizona since 2001 where he holds the Koshiyama Chair of Planarization. Since its establishment in 2004, he has also been the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Araca Incorporated, the premier provider of services and equipment to the polishing and planarization industry worldwide. He received his BS, MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University in 1983, 1985 and 1992, respectively. From 1992 to 2001, he was the Materials Technology Manager at Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA USA) responsible for development, characterization, implementation and sustaining of new and existing CMP and post-CMP cleaning consumables, low k dielectrics and electroplating chemicals. From 1986 to 1992, he worked at Digital Equipment Corporation (Hudson, MA USA) as a process development manager focusing on thermal silicon oxidation, diffusion, LPCVD of dielectric and gate electrodes, and wafer cleaning technology. Dr. Philipossian has authored approximately 110 archival journal publications and about 155 articles in conference proceedings. He holds 24 patents in the area of semiconductor processing and device fabrication.
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About Araca, University of Arizona: Araca Incorporated is a start-up company founded in 2004 by several individual and corporate investors.
Geoff Tate
Founder & CEO of Flex Logix Technologies
CEO, Co-Founder & Board Member at Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
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About Flex Logix Technologies: Flex Logix Technologies is a semiconductor startup designing reconfigurable AI accelerator chips.
Jan Johannessen
Chief Executive Officer of CNXT Holdings
Jan Johannessen has more than 30 years of executive experience in the technology industry, primarily in the semiconductor, software, emerging technologies and renewable energy sectors. Jan has served as CEO and CFO of publicly listed companies in both the United States and Europe. He has been directly involved with a number of IPOs, M&As, Joint Ventures and customer & supplier partnerships around the world, and has led a number of successful restructurings and turnarounds.
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About CNXT Holdings: CNXT Holdings is a semiconductor and audio technology engineering company that provides hardware and software solutions.
David G. Tacelli
Chief Executive Officer of Xcerra
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About Xcerra: Xcerra is the parent company for four powerful brands in the semiconductor and PCB test solution.
Vinay Bansal
Founder & CEO of Faststream Technologies
Vinay Bansal, as Chief Executive Officer, sets and evolves the strategic direction, creates and implements strategy for the company and its portfolio of offerings, while driven by keeping the customer at the core of everything. Vinay’s leadership development, marketing, and knowledge management initiatives have differentiated the company from competitors. Vinay has worked extensively in the field of IoT, Semiconductor, FPGA, Analog Design, cloud, BigData, and Embedded Development. Some of the customers who benefited from his leadership services were Verizon, Balboa, and CarrierAccess. Under his leadership, the company has delivered many ambitious projects that include smart parking, ThingSpace Manage self service portal, and modular IoT gateway. His key strength is to be able to visualize a product or solution right from the minuscule components & data bits to the much bigger picture of complete solution delivery till the end. He is extremely strategic in his approach, great thought leadership, and very positive in his interactions. With his Design Thinking approach, he looks at Innovation from an entirely different perspective. Vinay brings in rich experience in strategic & innovation consulting in Internet of Things, Industrial IoT and social aspects of it. He has the ability to think through things from a large scale to the minutest details of entire system with his system & solution based design methodology. His experience coupled with his passion and commitment to business and future proof thinking is a very good combination. Vinay holds a bachelor’s in Electronics and Telecommunications degree from MITS, Gwalior, India.
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About : Faststream, a vanguard of technology solutions, specializing in Product & System Engineering with regards to IoT and Semiconductor Design.
Michael Quick
CEO & Chairman of Vulcan Electric Company
Michael Quick is CEO at Vulcan Electric Company.
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About ATLANTIC GmbH Bonn, Atlantic Holding, Quick Holdings, Vulcan Electric Company: Vulcan Electric is a 90 year old heater, sensor and control manufacturing company with 100% of its operations in the USA.
Tapa Ghosh
CEO and Co-founder of Vathys
Tapa Ghosh is CEO and Co-founder at Vathys.
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About Vathys: Vathys builds deep learning processors 10x faster than others (e.g. TPUs, IPUs, etc.)
Ilbok Lee
Founder , President and CEO of Silego Technology
Dr. Ilbok Lee has served as president and chief executive officer and as the director of Silego since its inception. From April 1999 to September 2001, he was senior vice president and general manager of the Timing Technology Division at Cypress Semiconductor, after Cypress Acquired IC Works. From May 1992 to March 1999, he was president and chief executive officer and the director of IC Works, a company which he co-founded. From 1989 to May 1992, he was president and director of Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. Dr. Lee served in various technical and managerial positions at Intel and National Semiconductor, prior to co-founding Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., in the U.S. in 1983. Dr. Lee has previously served as director of ESS Technology, Inc, V3 Semiconductor Inc. and Sierra Monolithics. Dr. Lee holds a B.S.E.E. from Seoul National University and an M.S.E.E and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Lee has earned number of patents and awards.
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About Silego Technology: Silego Technology develops semiconductor timing and frequency generators for the computing and consumer electronics marketplace.
Victor Dellovo
President & CEO of CSPi
Successful business endeavors start with smart business leaders. Victor’s proven leadership and tested expertise have been the driving force for both CSPi worldwide and the CSPi Technology Solutions North America Division. Previously the President of Modcomp’s worldwide operations and subsequently the President of Modcomp’s U.S. division, Victor has been a vital component to the successful CSPi acquisition of the Modcomp subsidiary. With more than 23 years of experience in the IT industry, Victor’s knowledge and commitment are evident in all facets of the organization’s domestic and international operations.
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About CSPi: CSPi is delivering portfolio of products and consulting solutions singularly focused on securing their customers critical business assets.
David Bean
Founder and CEO of SemiNex
David Bean, BSME, MBA serves as President and Director of SemiNex Corporation. David Bean has extensive experience in engineering, manufacturing, marketing and business development with Corning Incorporated. David Bean managed Corning’s optical components marketing for telecommunications, which included their market-leading laser business. David Bean’s significant accomplishments include conceiving and launching InfiniCor™ optical fiber (the industry’s best-selling multimode fiber), recommending and supporting the successful acquisition of Lasertron Inc., and growing Corning’s pump laser market share from 20% to greater than 50% in under two years.
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About Frontline Test Equipment, SemiNex: Spotigo offers a broadband connection suite that enables mobile broadband users to find access points easily and to connect to them.
Mary Puma
Chairman and CEO of Axcelis Technologies
Mary Puma has been Axcelis’ Chairman since May of 2005 and CEO since January 2002. She played an instrumental role in the company’s spin off from Eaton Corporation in 2000, when she was named president and chief operating officer. Puma joined the semiconductor business in 1998, when it was Eaton’s Semiconductor Operation, first serving as the vice president of its implant business and then as the vice president for the total operation. Puma joined Eaton in May 1996 as the general manager of the company’s commercial controls division. Prior to joining Eaton, she spent 15 years in various marketing and general management positions at five different General Electric business units. Puma holds a BA in economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from Tufts University and an MS in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is a member of the boards at Nordson Corporation, North Shore Medical Center and Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).
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About Apogent Technologies, Axcelis Technologies, SEMI: Axcelis Technologies is a provider of equipment and services to the semiconductor manufacturing industry.
Douglas Kirkpatrick
CEO of Eridan
Douglas Kirkpatrick received his BS degree (Physics & Mathematics) from the College of William and Mary (1980) and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1988 (Physics). Dr. Kirkpatrick is a founding General Partner of InnerProduct Partners, a seed and early stage investment fund that deploys into its portfolio companies to actively aid in the technology development and transition to product. Prior to forming InnerProduct Partners, he was a Partner with Vantage Point Capital Partners, a leading Silicon Valley cleantech firm with over $4B under management. Dr. Kirkpatrick’s investment focus areas at Vantage Point included solar, biofuels, lighting, and energy storage. From 2002-2010 Dr. Kirkpatrick was a Program Manager and subsequently Chief Scientist at DARPA. In his eight years at DARPA he ran a portfolio of more than 25 programs including Biofuels, LED lighting, real-time dynamic holographic displays, very high efficiency solar cells, rapid DNA synthesis, cognitive technology based threat warning systems, and a diverse set of classified programs. Prior to DARPA, Dr. Kirkpatrick was the VP of R&D for Fusion Lighting, a Maryland-based startup commercializing RF- and microwave-powered high efficiency lighting for general lighting and displays. From 1988-1997, Dr. Kirkpatrick was a staff scientist and VP at SAIC where he managed a group of scientists and engineers developing a diverse set of materials technologies for various DOD and commercial applications. Dr. Kirkpatrick is an experienced senior manager of technology development and productization in both the commercial and government sectors. He has managed multi-disciplinary teams spanning a wide range of technical fields, and has led or managed project activities from initial exploratory research through low rate initial production. He is a strong leader and motivator, and has experience in both building new organizations and reshaping more mature teams. He has authored more than 30 journal articles and over 60 US and International Patents covering a broad range of fields including free electron lasers, field emission, microstructure composite materials, bio-composite electronics, solar cells, coating processes and materials, high efficiency RF devices and circuits, and advanced lighting technologies including materials, non-imaging optics, and integrated technology systems. Dr. Kirkpatrick is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Society of Collegiate Journalists, IEEE, and MRS.
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About Eridan: Eridan is building the world’s most efficient radios for 4G, 5G, and beyond.
