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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million 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 California based VP’ operating in the Manufacturing space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
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.
Julie Channing
VP of Marketing of Allbirds
Julie Channing is the VP of marketing at Allbirds.
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About Allbirds: Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes.
Pio Schunker
EVP, Global Head Brand Marketing of Samsung Electronics
Pio Schunker is a global integrated brand marketing expert, with a proven track record of unparalleled capability and craft. Schunker, known for his expertise in brand marketing and advertising, has won several distinguished international awards over the course of his career, of which have included two Cannes Marketer of the Year awards (for Coca Cola and Samsung) as well as an Emmy Award for best commercial.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Sang Ahn
Vice President and General Manager, Samsung Pay of Samsung Electronics
Sang Ahn is the VP & General Manager of Samsung Pay, Inc., responsible for driving the business and operations of Samsung’s mobile wallet in the U.S. Sang Ahn has been involved in Samsung Pay from day one by leading the investment and then strategic acquisition of a proprietary technology that became the basis for Samsung Pay’s Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST). Today he leads teams in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York City working closely with Samsung divisions in the U.S. and Korea. Sang Ahn also leads the commercialization of select Samsung services in the identity management, artificial intelligence, mobile commerce, and mobile browser spaces for the U.S. market. He reports to the Global SVP of Services at Samsung Electronics. Previously Sang Ahn was the Managing Director and Head of East Coast Investments for Samsung’s Global Innovation Center (GIC). GIC builds, buys, invests, and partners with innovative startups that can make a strategic impact for Samsung. At Samsung he invested in LoopPay (payments, acquired by Samsung), Automated Insights (language processing, acquired by Vista Equity) and Wevr (software and content for virtual reality). Prior to Samsung, Sang Ahn was a Principal at Dawntreader Ventures (a $300mm venture fund based in New York) where he served as a lead investor and Board Director of companies that have been acquired by leading technology companies such as Google, EMC, VeriSign, and IAC. As an entrepreneur, Sang Ahn was the founder and President of Glenkirk Advisors (technology advisory) and Founder & CEO of AhnWalker Therapeutics (novel drug development). Sang Ahn is a current Board Director of MarketFactory, an emerging financial technology company. Sang Ahn is a husband and father of two daughters and resides in Palo Alto, CA.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Alan Robles
Vice President Retail Design & Development of Samsung Electronics
Over 24 years exploring the relationship between users and their surroundings, Alan’s been creating experience environments for clients and projects of every scale around the world. In his role at Gensler he explores the opportunities found at the fringes of the design practice, searching for the edges of the play space of each design opportunity. As Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and digital media have become a more significant part of the engagement and development of “place”, he’s focused his work on exploring the interplay between content and context. Developing the tools for creating stories in places with special attention to the value those stories help communicate within the experience environment.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Stefan Heuser
Vice President, Operations and Innovation – Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC) of Samsung Electronics
CEO at Siemens Technology-to-Business
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Steve Liu
VP, R&D; Chief-Scientist; Co-Director of Samsung Electronics
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About ACM, IEEE, IEEE, IEEE, McGill University, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Samsung Electronics, TandemLaunch: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Jack Ahn
Vice President of Samsung Electronics
Samsung DeX is another notable accomplishment of the dedicated technical minds at Samsung. They’ve tirelessly pursued creating new possibilities for technologies to help users break preconceived notions of what they can and cannot do or how they are “supposed” to use their devices. Jack truly appreciates being part of Samsung DeX. Prior to joining Samsung, Jack focused on delivering mobile and mobility solutions to enterprise customers. At Samsung, Jack is responsible for Knox and Knox related services along with Samsung DeX, Email, Samsung Focus, and Smart Key services. Jack enjoys problem solving with engineers from all walks of life.
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Neeraj Sahejpal
Senior Vice President of Marketing & Strategy of Energous Corporation
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About Energous Corporation: Energous Corporation is the creator of WattUp, charging technology for electronic devices.
Brandon Pearce
Vice President of Avionics and Integrated Software of Relativity Space
Brandon Pearce is the Vice President of Avionics and Integrated Software at Relativity Space.
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About Relativity Space: Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D printed rockets.
Yoram Cedar
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of SanDisk
Yoram Cedar has served as executive vice president and chief technology officer since October 2010. Previously, he served as executive vice president of OEM and corporate engineering, and prior to that, as senior vice president of engineering and emerging market business development. Cedar began his career at SanDisk in May 1998 when he joined the company as vice president of systems engineering. He has more than 30 years of experience in design and engineering management of electronic systems as well as product definition, marketing and development of systems and embedded flash-based semiconductors. Before joining SanDisk, he was vice president of new business development at Waferscale Integration, Inc. Cedar earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer architecture from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
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About Omega Point, SanDisk: SanDisk designs, develops, manufactures, and markets data storage solutions in the United States and internationally.
Atsuyoshi Koike
Senior Vice President of SanDisk
Atsuyoshi Koike is senior vice president of technology and fab operations and president of SanDisk (Japan) Limited, the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary in Japan. He joined SanDisk in August 2006 from Renesas Technology where he was a corporate chief engineer. Prior to that, Koike was president and chief executive officer of Trecenti Techologies, Inc. He also held various management positions at Hitachi Ltd. including general manager of the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Center. Koike earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in material science from Waseda University, Japan and his doctorate in electrical engineering from Tohoku University, Japan.
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About SanDisk: SanDisk designs, develops, manufactures, and markets data storage solutions in the United States and internationally.
Milo Azarmsa
Senior Vice President, Finance of SanDisk
Milo Azarmsa has served as senior vice president of finance since February 2008. He joined SanDisk in June 2005 as vice president of operations finance. Previously, Azarmsa was vice president of finance and controller for worldwide sales at Palm, Inc. Prior to that, he held financial and business development positions at Verifone, Pacific Telesis and VoiceCom Systems. Azarmsa earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from Abadan Institute of Technology and his master’s degree in business administration from the School of Business and Economics at California State University, Hayward.
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About SanDisk: SanDisk designs, develops, manufactures, and markets data storage solutions in the United States and internationally.
Kendall Pond
VP, Business Development of Dassault Systemes
Kendall Pond joined Dassault Systemes as VP, Business Development in 2003.
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About Dassault Systemes: Dassault Systemes provides project lifecycle management solutions that enable businesses to create and share experiences in 3D.
Andy Iseli
Vice President and General Manager, CCL Tube of CCL Industries
Andy Iseli is a Vice President and General Manager, CCL Tube at CCL Industries.
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About CCL Industries: CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions.
Dave Hemker
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Corporate Technology Development. of Lam Research
Corporate Technology Development David Hemker is senior vice president and chief technology officer at Lam Research, where he is responsible for long-range research and technology development. Prior to joining the company in 1998, Dr. Hemker was vice president of Technology for PMT/Trikon, where he managed research and development, technology, and engineering. He also spent five years in various technology roles at Applied Materials. He has spent the past 25 years in the semiconductor equipment industry focusing on advanced technology development, holds more than 35 patents, and has authored numerous technical publications and presentations in the areas of semiconductor processing and thin-film applications.
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About Lam Research: Lam Research supplies wafer fabrication equipment and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry.
Kaihan Ashtiani
Corporate Vice President & General Manager of Lam Research
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About Lam Research: Lam Research supplies wafer fabrication equipment and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry.
Jason Shields
Vice President Advanced Equipment & Process Control of Lam Research
Jason Shields is a Vice President of Equipment Intelligence at Lam Research, where he oversees company strategy across all product lines for this important area within the company. Prior to joining Lam in 2015, he was Vice President of Integrated Metrology at Nanometrics. Earlier, he served as Vice President of Brion Fab Products at ASML and held various technical marketing and program manager positions at KLA-Tencor. He began his career working in the areas of process, process integration, and yield enhancement at semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Shields earned an MBA from Santa Clara University and a B.S. degree in physics from Texas A&M University.
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About Lam Research: Lam Research supplies wafer fabrication equipment and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry.
Andrew Cowell
Senior Vice President of Power Management of Intersil
Andrew Cowell is Senior Vice President of Intersil’s Mobile Power Products. Mr. Cowell joined Intersil from Micrel Semiconductor in 2011, where he served for four years as Vice President of Analog Marketing. Prior to this, Mr. Cowell served as the head of Micrel’s Strategic Applications division with responsibility for new product definition for power products. He also served in the role of Marketing and Applications Manager for the power product line. Prior to joining Micrel, Mr. Cowell worked for Siliconix Semiconductor where he held a variety of technical positions throughout the world. Mr. Cowell began his career as a design engineer at Advanced Power Supplies. Mr. Cowell holds a First Class Honors degree in Electronics from Middlesex University in the UK.
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About Intersil, Renesas Electronics Corporation: Intersil Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of analog integrated circuits (ICs).
Vern Kelley
Senior Vice President of Human Resources of Intersil
Vern Kelley is Intersil’s Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Mr. Kelley joined Intersil in February 2003 from National Semiconductor where he was Vice President of Human Resources for the product divisions. In his 19-year tenure at National, Mr. Kelley held a variety of leadership positions within human resources and oversaw HR activities associated with National’s acquisition, divestiture, and joint venture activities. His HR management experience includes development and implementation of performance management, success sharing, productivity improvement, and training and development programs. Before joining National in 1983, Mr. Kelley was a division employee relations manager for Allstate Insurance Company. Mr. Kelley earned a Master of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from Golden Gate University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of the Pacific. He is a recipient of the 2007 HR Symposium “HR Excellence” Award. He also served on the Board of Directors of the United Way Silicon Valley from 2005 to 2008.
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About Intersil: Intersil Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of analog integrated circuits (ICs).
Jordan Savage
Co-Founder & VP, Creative of Grove Collaborative
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About Grove Collaborative: Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home and personal care products and is the leader in zero-plastic CPG.
David Wahl
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Jabil Digital Office of Jabil
David Wahl is a VP Operations & General Manager at Jabil.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Daniel Gamota
Vice President, Engineering & Technology Services of Jabil
Daniel Gamota is a Sr. Director Process Innovation, Engineering & Technology Services at Jabil.
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About Jabil: Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain and product management services.
Joe W. Laymon
Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services of Chevron
Joe W. Laymon is vice president of Human Resources, Medical, Security, Diversity and Ombuds for Chevron Corporation, a position he has held since 2008. He is responsible for human resources, medical services, security, diversity and ombuds. Previously Laymon served as group vice president of Corporate Human Resources and Labor Affairs for Ford Motor Company from 2000 to 2008 and was responsible for global human resources, labor negotiations, medical, security and aviation. Prior to joining Ford, Laymon worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with assignments in Zaire and Washington, D.C. Previous to USAID he held several senior human resources positions at Eastman Kodak Company, including vice president of Human Resources for U.S. and International Operations. Laymon is on the board of directors of Molex, Inc.; BoardRoomIQ.com; and the United Way of the Bay Area. He also is on the board of trustees of Clark Atlanta University and is a national trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Laymon is a member of the Human Resources Network in the Petroleum Industry and the HR Policy Association. Laymon was born in Mississippi in 1952. He began his career at Xerox Corporation in 1979 as an industrial relations specialist and went on to hold a number of senior human resources and labor positions over 17 years, including chief labor negotiator. In 1975, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Jackson State University and in 1977 a master’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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About Chevron: Chevron is an integrated energy and technology company with subsidiaries that conduct businesses under Chevron, Texaco and Caltex brands.
Hugh Connett
Vice President of Chevron
Hugh Connett is president of Chevron Global Gas, responsible for Chevron’s global marketing and trading activities for natural gas, LNG, and LPG/NGL businesses. Prior to being named to his current role in 2018, Hugh was president of Chevron Pipeline & Power business unit. In this role, he was responsible for providing technical, commercial, operational, and energy management support services that allow the pipeline and power functions to more effectively deliver expertise to the enterprise. Connett joined Texaco in 1996 managing the company’s gas supply and midstream assets with the Texaco Star Center, and has served in various commercial and project management roles with Global Supply and Trading, Bridgeline Holdings joint venture, Global Gas and Downstream organizations. He previously served as a Reservoir Engineer with Mitchell Energy. Connett graduated from Pennsylvania State University with bachelor’s degrees in Petroleum Engineering and Liberal Arts in 1982.
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About Chevron: Chevron is an integrated energy and technology company with subsidiaries that conduct businesses under Chevron, Texaco and Caltex brands.
Pierre R. Breber
Executive Vice President, Downstream & Chemicals of Chevron
Pierre R. Breber, 51, is executive vice president of Downstream and Chemicals, a position he has held since January 2016. He is responsible for directing the company’s worldwide manufacturing, marketing, lubricants, chemicals and Oronite additives businesses. He also oversees Chevron’s joint-venture Chevron Phillips Chemical Company. Previously Breber was executive vice president of Gas and Midstream where he was responsible for commercializing Chevron’s natural gas resources and oversaw the company’s shipping, pipeline, power and energy management, and supply and trading operations. With more than 25 years of service, Breber has served in a number of leadership positions with increasing responsibilities including managing director, Asia South Business Unit; Chevron vice president and treasurer; vice president, Finance, Chevron Downstream; and manager, Finance and Business Services, Chevron Upstream Europe Business Unit. Breber serves as a board member of the United Way of the Bay Area. Breber joined Chevron in 1989 as a financial analyst. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986 and 1987, respectively, and a master’s degree in business administration from Cornell University in 1989.
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About Chevron: Chevron is an integrated energy and technology company with subsidiaries that conduct businesses under Chevron, Texaco and Caltex brands.
Jeanette L. Ourada
Vice President and Comptroller of Chevron
Jeanette L. Ourada, 50, is vice president and comptroller of Chevron Corporation, a position she has held since April 2015. She is responsible for corporatewide accounting, financial reporting and analysis, internal controls, and Finance Shared Services. Previously Ourada served since 2013 as general manager of the Finance Shared Services organization supporting Chevron’s global operations with shared service centers in Argentina, the Philippines and the United States. Prior positions include: 2012, assistant treasurer, operating company support and intercompany financing; 2009, general manager, investor relations; 2007, general manager, finance, Chevron Asia South Business Unit, Bangkok, Thailand; 2005, manager, forecasting and reporting, Chevron International Exploration and Production Company. Ourada is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Ourada joined Chevron in 2005 upon the merger with Unocal Corporation. She earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Oregon State University in 1987 and a master’s degree in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.
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About Chevron: Chevron is an integrated energy and technology company with subsidiaries that conduct businesses under Chevron, Texaco and Caltex brands.
Robert Normile
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of Mattel
Robert Normile has been Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary since February 2011. From March 1999 to February 2011, he was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. He served as Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Secretary from August 1994 to March 1999. From June 1992 to August 1994, he served as Assistant General Counsel. Prior to that, he was associated with the law firms of Latham & Watkins LLP and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.
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About Mattel: Mattel is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of toys and family products.
Sven Gerjets
EVP, Chief Technology Officer of Mattel
Sven Gerjets has been Chief Technology Officer of Mattel since July 2017. From January 2017 to July 2017, he served as Chief Product Officer of n.io Innovation. Mr. Gerjets was the Chief Information Officer of Time Warner Cable, Inc., from October 2015 to June 2016. Before joining Time Warner Cable, Inc., he was the Chief Technology Officer of Pearson from July 2014 to October 2015.
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About Mattel: Mattel is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of toys and family products.
Amy Leong
Chief Marketing Officer and SVP Mergers and Acquisitions of FormFactor
Amy Leong has been with FormFactor since October 2012. Prior to this, Amy was the VP of Marketing at MicroProbe from April 2010 through the October 2012 closing of FormFactor’s acquisition of MicroProbe. Before joining MicroProbe, Ms. Leong worked at Gartner, Inc. as a Research Director from 2008 to 2010 and covered the ASSP system-on-chip and microcontroller markets. From 2003 to 2008, Ms. Leong worked at FormFactor where she served as Senior Director of Corporate Strategic Marketing and Director of DRAM Product Marketing. Prior to FormFactor, Ms. Leong worked in a variety of semiconductor process engineering and product marketing roles at KLA-Tencor and IBM. Ms. Leong holds an M.S. in Material Science and Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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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
Don McGuire
Vice President Global Product Marketing of Qualcomm
Don McGuire is currently the Senior Vice President Global Product and Technology Marketing for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He is responsible for leading all global product marketing strategy, planning and execution across QTI’s businesses including mobile, IoT, voice and music, connectivity and automotive. McGuire has helped redefine Qualcomm’s strategic approach to product marketing for the past 7 months, recently joining Qualcomm from Intel Corp. At Intel, McGuire leads the end-user product marketing team in support of Intel’s Client Computing business. He has served in several additional leadership positions prior to his current role and has over 20 years’ marketing and sales experience. Previously, he was a founding member of a marketing strategy consulting firm with a client roster that included Intel, NBC Universal, Dell, Motorola, Cricket and many others. McGuire lead the firm’s technology engagement practice. Before that, McGuire was the chief marketing officer of Amp’d Mobile, the vice president of global marketing for Kyocera, the vice president of sales and marketing for Leap Wireless and the vice president and general manager for Sprint PCS. McGuire began his career as a sales and marketing executive at McCaw Cellular Communications. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University in business administration and has attended an executive master’s program at Stanford University’s Schwab School of Business.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Kedar Kondap
Vice President Product Management of Qualcomm
He is the Vice President for Product Management at Qualcomm.
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About Qualcomm, Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Edward Tiedemann
Senior Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr. is a Qualcomm Fellow and a Senior Vice President of Engineering of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He leads Qualcomm’s worldwide standardization and industry organization activities. Dr. Tiedemann was instrumental in the design and development of the TIA/EIA/IS-95 CDMA system, also called cdmaOne™. He led Qualcomm’s, and much of the industry’s, efforts in the design and development of the third-generation cdma2000® system. Dr. Tiedemann led the offline industry group on M2M convergence, which resulted in oneM2M. In addition to being on the board of the MulteFire Alliance, Dr. Tiedemann is also on the board of the Open Mobile Alliance and the Open Connectivity Foundation. Prior to becoming involved with terrestrial wireless communications, Dr. Tiedemann was involved with numerous commercial and military satellite systems. From 1977 to 1988, Dr. Tiedemann was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on mmWave satellite communications systems. Dr. Tiedemann holds a Ph.D. degree from MIT where he worked in the areas of queueing theory and communications networks. He holds a Master of Science degree from Purdue University where he worked on bandwidth efficient modulation. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity (Va Tech). Dr. Tiedemann is past chairman ofthe Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity (Va Tech). He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Peabody Essex Museum. Dr. Tiedemann was General Chair of GLOBECOM2015, one of the IEEE Communications Society flagship conferences.
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About Open Connectivity Foundation, Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Durga Malladi
Senior Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Ev Roach
Vice President of Product Management of Qualcomm
Everett Roach is vice president of product management for the power management product line at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Everett has over 35 years of sales, marketing, and product management experience with a number of leading semiconductor companies. Prior to joining Qualcomm in 2012, Everett was vice president, worldwide sales, for Summit Microelectronics. Everett has held executive sales and marketing positions at numerous companies, including Nucore, SiliconWave, Tripath Technologies, National Semiconductor, Cyrix Corporation, Weitek and Intel Corporation. He has extensive sales experience domestically as well as having held international posts in Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong. Everett has a degree in economics from the University of California at Davis.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Chidi Chidambaram
Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Rashmi Char
Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
Rashmi Char serves as vice president of engineering for Qualcomm Technologies Incorporated. Her current responsibilities include leading the Global Product and ToolsOrganization responsible for delivering world-class mobile chipsets to markets aroundthe world and leading the next generation 1-Gbps Class Modem for smartphones,tablets and mobile broadband products as Software Project Engineer. Rashmi Char joined Qualcomm in 1997 and has held roles of increasing responsibility inMobile Product Development and Commercialization since that time. One of her firstkey positions was in UMTS Protocol Stack Development. She then moved on to leadglobal Software Design and Development teams to support High-Speed Data Servicesover all air interface technologies (UMTS, LTE, CDMA). As Software Project Engineerand Architect, she led the worldwide commercialization of the first worldwide LTE (4G)capable handsets launches on all major carriers’ networks including VZW, ATT, SKT,LGU+, and Sprint and a number of cutting-edge 4G modems for mobile products.Rashmi excels at directly leading hundreds of employees, and also simultaneouslyleading projects comprised of thousands of engineers around the world.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Charles Bergan
Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
Charles leads the software department for Qualcomm Research. He also oversees Qualcomm Research’s robotics program. While at Qualcomm, he has been involved in the research and development of most of the modern cellular radio standards, including CDMA, UMTS, UMB and LTE. Previously, he led the software development team at Ensemble Communications, a start-up company which pioneered the development of LMDS point-to-multipoint wireless backhaul systems. Charles has a B.S. in Computer Engineering, and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of California, San Diego.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Eduardo Esteves
Vice President Product Management of Qualcomm
Eduardo Esteves is vice president of product management in Qualcomm’s Research group. He currently leads a team responsible for technology incubation, strategy and industry collaboration. Dr. Esteves has contributed to the evolution of satellite and wireless communications for more than 20 years. His areas of expertise include 5G, wireless modem design, mobile computing and its applications leveraging sensor processing, computer vision and neural networks. Dr. Esteves received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. Dr. Esteves holds more than 35 patents related to wireless communications and applications.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Joe Glynn
Vice President, Business Development of Qualcomm
Joe Glynn serves as the Vice President of Business Development. In this role he builds and manages strategic relationships with CDMA, UMTS and LTE carriers, and OEM/ODM’s around the world, with the primary goal of creating demand for Qualcomm products and services. In 2007 Joe created the CDMA Summit, which now has evolved into the 4G/5G Summit. (Link) With sights set on expanding the 4G/5G ecosystem, the summit continually proves to be an ideal venue for worldwide operators, device manufacturers, and software and component technology companies to showcase their products and services while also gaining exposure to key Qualcomm executives. Taking place annually in Hong Kong, this 3 day premier event engages attendees in pointed breakout sessions and panels addressing the most anticipated new technologies and trends. The highlight of the meeting is unparalleled “matchmaking” where attendees are connected in over 500 meetings with 100 carriers representing over 3.3 billion subscribers. As the organizer and master of ceremonies, Joe facilitates these connections and influences the relationships that result in significant revenue and profit for both Qualcomm and participating companies. Joe is a graduate of Texas Christian University where he received a BBA in Marketing and was a student-athlete on the highly competitive Division 1 men’s soccer team.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
John Smee
Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
John Smee serves as vice president of engineering at Qualcomm.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Reiner Klement
VP Product Management of Qualcomm
Reiner Klement is the Vice President of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies. During his tenure, he oversaw the marketing of product management, business development, and the QCT portfolio of smartphones and feature phones. Klement joined Qualcomm in 2003 and has more than 30 years of product management experience in the mobile product arena. Under his leadership, the QCT smartphone business has grown from a single product to a broad product portfolio. In his current role he is responsible to build an ecosystem for eSIM technology as well as scaling Qualcomm modem technology into growth areas such as computing and Industrial IoT. Reiner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Fachhochschule Augsburg, Germany.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Sudeepto Roy
VP, Engineering of Qualcomm
Sudeepto Roy is the VP for Engineering at Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL).
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Alex Rogers
Executive Vice President of Qualcomm
Alex Rogers is executive vice president and president of Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), a division of Qualcomm Incorporated. As the head of the company’s licensing business, Rogers is responsible for the strategic direction and oversight of QTL, including managing the division’s day-to-day operations. Rogers has led QTL since March 2016, applying his legal and business experience to manage intellectual property, regulatory and commercial matters for QTL, as well as ensuring continued growth and monetization of QTL’s existing and future licensing programs through negotiation of significant licensing agreements. Most recently, Rogers has been instrumental in driving the conclusion of new license agreements with key OEMs in China.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Dino Bekis
VP & GM – Mobile & Compute Connectivity Business Unit of Qualcomm
Dino Bekis serves as the Vice President and General Manager of the Mobile & Compute Connectivity Business Unit for Qualcomm Technologies Inc., (QCT). As a senior leader and technologist, he delivers and executes business strategies to turn core technologies into long-term sustainable franchises. Prior to this role, Dino was the Vice President of Marketing for the IP Group in Cadence, where he was responsible for product marketing, business development, collateral and program management for Cadence’s entire commercial IP product portfolio. Throughout his years of enterprise, networking and consumer market experience, Dino has shown agility in taking a combination of new markets and new technologies and turning them into high-velocity businesses with Broadcom, PMC-Sierra and IBM. At the forefront of several commercial technology introductions from low-power Wi-Fi, NFC, 60GHz, and advanced metro-optical architectures, he also was part of the small core leadership team that led IBM to become one of the largest merchant semiconductor players. Dino earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer & Systems Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration from Marist College.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Penny Baldwin
SVP, Chief Marketing Officer of Qualcomm
Penny Baldwin is a senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. In her role, Baldwin leads the company’s marketing efforts worldwide, spanning corporate communications, brand management, product marketing, digital and social marketing, content and creative, thought leadership, positioning and narratives, insights, and analytics.Before joining Qualcomm, Baldwin was vice president and general manager of Intel Global Brand Management & Reputation, responsible for leading all facets of the Intel brand worldwide. In addition, she oversaw Intel partner marketing (including worldwide oversight of the Intel Inside program) and all marketing strategy and execution in support of the New Technology Group which includes VR, merged reality, drones, head and wrist worn wearables, AI, and Intel’s 360-degree Replay technology.Baldwin is a seasoned marketing professional with 30+ years of in-depth expertise spanning agency leadership of Madison Avenue agency brands, global consumer marketing, and brand management for Yahoo!, CMO of global security company McAfee, and global brand management, partner marketing, and new technology group marketing for Intel. She is an inspirational leader of marketing and communications teams, has extensive international marketing experience and is deeply conversant across the full spectrum of marketing disciplines requiring global integration and optimization.Baldwin attended San Francisco State University and studied marketing.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Paul Guckian
Vice President Engineering of Qualcomm
As vice president at QUALCOMM, Mr. Guckian is responsible for corporate engineering services including companywide responsibility for regulatory engineering and compliance. He is responsible for Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and Regulatory certification of new wireless technologies being introduced into different market segments including consumer electronics, automotive, aviation, industrial, and medical markets. He works directly with QUALCOMM customers and industry groups as well as country regulators, such as the FAA, FCC, and FDA in the US to ensure streamlined processes for device development and ease of radio certification. In 2016, Paul leveraged his experience with the FAA and obtained clearance for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) testing at Qualcomm’s San Diego campus, which is within a few miles of an active military air station and controlled Class B airspace, making Qualcomm the first commercial company to receive an FAA authorization for UAS flights in Class B airspace. Prior to joining QUALCOMM in 1996, Mr. Guckian held positions with several European based companies where he was responsible for design and certification of both commercial and military projects.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Susie Armstrong
Senior Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
Susan M. Armstrong started at Qualcomm working on Globalstar and then early CDMA base station projects. She was a pioneer in bringing internet protocols to the cellular industry, resulting in the first web surfing on a cellular phone in 1997, and Qualcomm’s commercialization of packet data in 1998. Since then she has held various leadership positions, first as the head of Software Engineering in Qualcomm’s mobile chipset division, and then as the head of worldwide Customer Engineering, the group who integrates and commercializes the company’s products in phones and other wireless devices. She has worked extensively with phone and device makers in Asia and Europe to bring Qualcomm’s technologies to market. Recently, Armstrong has joined Qualcomm’s Government Affairs group, where she brings an engineering and product background the Government Affairs work in worldwide public policy, including intellectual property protection, trade and immigration reform, STEM and STEM diversity. Prior to joining Qualcomm in 1994, Armstrong worked for 10 years at the Xerox Systems Development Department and the Xerox Webster Research Center, holding a variety of software engineering positions that focused on data protocols and operating systems, and advanced development in high-speed data networking. Armstrong holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Rahul Patel
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm
Rahul Patel serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Connectivity for Qualcomm Technologies Inc., (QCT), where he is currently responsible for QCT’s connectivity and networking businesses and leads the Wired/Wireless, Infrastructure and Networking (WIN) and Mobile, Computing and Location (MCL) product management organizations. Prior to this role, Rahul was the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Wireless Connectivity in the Broadband and Connectivity Group at Broadcom where he managed the product roadmap, market, business development and applications engineering organizations to expand Broadcom’s WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS leadership across all market segments. During his 13 year career with Broadcom, Rahul has had a strong track record of developing successful product lines, driving P&L growth and developing strong teams. Before his work at Broadcom, Rahul worked at HIFN, Inc., Samsung Semiconductor, Tritech Microelectronics and EPSON.S-MOS Systems. Rahul is a veteran of the semiconductor and telecommunications industry with more than 20 years of experience in product and business development for networking and wireless connectivity solutions. Rahul holds an MBA from Santa Clara University in California, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Arizona State University in Tempe and a B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from NIT in Warangal, India.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Manvinder Singh
VP, Product Management of Qualcomm
Manvinder (Manny) Singh is Vice President, Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc (QTI) where he leads the SW ecosystem engagements with ISVs, and large platform companies. His team is responsible for delivering solution architecture, pre-integration and optimization of these solutions on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform. These solutions span broad areas of technologies such as machine learning, camera, audio, sensors, security etc. Prior to joining product management, Manny led the worldwide applications engineering team for many years helping customers develop mobile, and IOT products. Under his leadership, a global team of applications engineers helped OEMs integrate, customize, differentiate, and optimize their products to meet their time to market needs. Manny holds a M.S. Computer Science from Clemson University and M.S. in Physics from University of Delhi, India.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Jeff Lorbeck
SVP, Engineering of Qualcomm
He is an SVP, Engineering at QUALCOMM, Inc.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Jan King
Vice President of Qualcomm
Jan King is Advisor at A Human Right.
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About Qualcomm, STL: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Paulie Dery
VP of Marketing of YETI Coolers
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About YETI Coolers: YETI Coolers manufactures tough, durable coolers that are suitable for boating, camping, and many other outdoor activities.
Robert McCulley
Vice President of Sales of EcoSense Lighting
Robert McCulley is the Vice President of Sales at Ecosense Lighting.
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About EcoSense Lighting: EcoSense Lighting designs and develops lighting solutions for commercial and residential applications.
Patrick O’Malley
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Seagate Technology
Patrick O’Malley assumed the role of EVP & CFO effective August 25, 2008. In his previous role of SVP Finance & Treasurer, he was responsible for Corp. Accounting, Reporting, Treasury, Credit & Collections and Risk Management along with Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis and support for our Business Unit GMs, Sales & other functions. In October 2005, he returned to Finance from the Sales Organization where he coordinated the Company’s activities surrounding the Consumer Electronics market as the SVP, Consumer Electronics Business Development from January 2004. O’Malley joined Seagate in 1988 & has held various management roles within the Finance organization including Manager of Consolidation & Cost Accounting, Director of Finance – Corporate FP&A, Sr. Director of Finance for Oklahoma City Operations, Sr. Director of Finance for Desktop Design, VP of Finance for Recording Media Operations & SVP of Finance for Manufacturing Operations. Prior to joining Seagate, he spent four years as a Sr. Staff Accountant for Arthur Young & Co. O’Malley holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame (Class of 1984).
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About Seagate Technology, Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
B.S. Teh
Senior Vice President of Sales & Sales Operations of Seagate Technology
B.S. Teh is senior vice president of global sales and sales operations. He is responsible for Seagate’s worldwide sales and field marketing, with a focus on driving scale and breadth in customer and market coverage. Teh joined Seagate in 1989 as a field customer engineer. He has served in a variety of leadership roles with the company across multiple functions in California, Singapore and Shanghai, including sales, marketing, business operations and field technical support. Most recently, he was senior vice president of Asia-Pacific sales and marketing, based in Singapore. Teh holds an MBA from the University of South Australia and an EE degree from the National University of Singapore.
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Joy Nyberg
Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Internal Communications of Seagate Technology
Joy Nyberg is responsible for leading Seagate’s global human resources efforts, including: compensation and benefits, leadership and learning, staffing and on-boarding, HR central transaction centers, HR compliance, internal communications and community engagement. Prior to joining Seagate in 2007, Nyberg was vice president of Compensation and Benefits at Maxtor Corporation. She has also held senior HR positions at KLA-Tencor and ESL/TRW. Nyberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University.
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About Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Gongda Yao
VP of Applied Materials
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About Applied Materials: Applied Materials provides manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries.
Ali Salehpour
Senior Vice President, General Manager New Markets and Service Group of Applied Materials
Ali Salehpour is senior vice president and general manager of the New Markets and Service Group at Applied Materials where he is extending the company’s materials engineering leadership into significant growth opportunities. He leads the services business supporting customers in all market segments, and is also responsible for the Display and Flexible Technology group. Under his direction, Applied is driving the flat panel display industry roadmap to enable enhanced touch panels, flexible substrates and OLED displays. Mr. Salehpour joined Applied in 2012 with more than 28 years of industry experience and a successful track record of developing products, delivering customer satisfaction, growing market share and new businesses, building high-performance teams, and developing a competitive supply chain. Prior to Applied, he was a senior vice president and general manager at KLA-Tencor, and spent ten years with Schlumberger Test Systems (formerly Fairchild Test Systems). Mr. Salehpour received his bachelor of science degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from California State University at Long Beach.
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About Applied Materials: Applied Materials provides manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries.
Omkaram Nalamasu
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Applied Materials
Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu is senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) of Applied Materials, Inc. He brings extensive experience and passion to the role of CTO, where he leads the development of disruptive products to address new markets and businesses and secures government funds for strategic projects. Omkaram Nalamasu has built a world-class leadership team that maintains Applied’s technology leadership in the industries it serves and enables its entry into new markets and businesses while achieving profitable growth. As president of Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital fund of Applied Materials, he also oversees the financial and strategic investments in early and growth-stage privately held companies. A world-renowned expert in materials science and technology and one of our industry’s respected forward-thinkers, Omkaram Nalamasu has championed a renewed focus on the company’s innovation culture through various internal development programs and open innovation methods. He has strengthened Applied’s strategic relationships with universities and research institutes around the world. Omkaram Nalamasu joined Applied in 2006 after serving as vice president of research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He has held key research and development leadership positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, and Agere Systems, Inc., and was director of Bell Laboratories’ Nanofabrication Research Laboratory, MEMS and Waveguides Research, and Condensed Matter Physics organizations. His research interests include nanomanufacturing, nanopatterning, electronic and photonic materials, and lithography, with special emphasis on applying patterning and materials expertise for device fabrication for electronics, photonics and energy applications. Omkaram Nalamasu has made seminal contributions to the fields of optical lithography and polymeric materials science and technology. He has received numerous awards, authored more than 180 papers, review articles and books, and holds more than 150 world-wide issued or pending patent applications. Omkaram Nalamasu is a member of the board of directors of Semiconductor Research Corporation and The Tech Museum, and serves on the National Academies Panel on Materials Science and Engineering. He also sits on several technical advisory boards and university advisory committees. Omkaram Nalamasu received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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About Applied Materials: Applied Materials provides manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries.
Prabu G. Raja
Vice President of Applied Materials
Vice President at Applied Materials.
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About Applied Materials: Applied Materials provides manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries.
Gino Addiego
Senior Vice President, Engineering Operations and Quality of Applied Materials
Gino Addiego is senior vice president of Engineering at Applied Materials, Inc. He works closely with all of the company’s business units to drive effective and efficient innovation, product creation, and engineering development critical to creating a pipeline of winning products for sustained and long-term profitable growth. Gino Addiego brings a unique perspective to Applied having successfully developed winning products and leading cross-functional groups that remain focused on the customer. Previously he was president and chief operating officer at Ultra Clean Technology (UCTT:NASDAQ), a supplier of critical subsystems for the semiconductor capital equipment, medical device, energy, research, and flat panel industries with several factories in China, Singapore and the U.S. Before joining Ultra Clean Technology, he was executive vice president at Novellus Systems for six years responsible for HR, Information Technology, Operations, Facilities, and Central Engineering, as well as executing on the company’s growth strategy and managing several European companies in the surface science area. Gino Addiego spent more than nine years at Applied Materials, from 1996 to 2005, leading various successful product groups such as CMP and PDC, as well as key global organizations including Global Operations, Manufacturing, Foundation Engineering, and Information Technology. Gino Addiego received his bachelor of science and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He holds several patents and was nominated for the National Inventor of the Year Award in 1993.
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About Applied Materials: Applied Materials provides manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries.
Thomas F .Larkins
Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Applied Materials
Thomas Larkins was named senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Applied Materials, Inc. in November 2012. He is responsible for all legal affairs, worldwide intellectual property and global security, and brings to Applied a wealth of experience in mergers and acquisitions, global commercial transactions and operations, corporate finance, securities, and corporate governance. Prior to joining Applied, Thomas Larkins served as vice president, corporate secretary and deputy general counsel of Honeywell International Inc., a diversified global technology and manufacturing leader, from September 2002 to November 2012. His areas of responsibility included corporate governance, public reporting, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, real estate and procurement. He joined Honeywell (formerly AlliedSignal) in 1997 and served in various positions, including vice president and general counsel of its Automation and Control Solutions business segment. Prior to joining Honeywell, Thomas Larkins served as senior vice president, chief administrative officer and general counsel of L.A. Gear from 1994 to 1997. Before that, he was in private practice (mergers and acquisitions, securities and general corporate) in Los Angeles for seven years, most recently at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Thomas Larkins received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his J.D. from the University of Southern California.
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About Applied Materials: Applied Materials provides manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries.
Malachy Moynihan
Senior Vice President, Global Design & Engineering of Flex
Malachy Moynihan is the Senior Vice President for Global Design and Engineering at Flex, the global leader in Sketch-to-Scale development to distribution company managing several thousand engineers developing products for medical, automotive, consumer and industrial customers worldwide. He has worked on products as diverse as the worlds first connected cold-press juicer (Juicero, where he was the Chief Product Officer managing all engineering, manufacturing, product management and design), the most successful voice assistant, Echo and the leading streaming platform, FireTV (Amazon – Vice President for Lab126) and drove the amazing growth of the connected home with the Linksys WiFi products (Cisco). He began his career in high-tech at Apple, where he worked for many years on their consumer product lines. He has been a significant contributor to the popularization of consumer technologies through his frequent interviews, presentations and tradeshows. He is currently an advisor to several start-up companies focused on wireless technology, medical devices and engineering services. Malachy holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Ireland and has studied business and finance at the National University of Ireland and INSEAD, France. He lives in San Jose with his wife and son.
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About Flex: Flex is the Sketch-to-Scale solutions provider that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world.
Scott Offer
Executive Vice President & General Counsel of Flex
Scott Offer leads the global Law Department of Motorola Mobility. His team plays a key role – setting overall legal strategy; partnering with business leads; negotiating all strategic deals with customers, suppliers and partners; managing the global Motorola Mobility trademark and litigation portfolio; and maintaining legal compliance. Most recently, he served as a key leader and contributor in the planning and structuring of Motorola’s businesses into two independent, publicly traded companies following the separation of the company in 2011. This included the combination of the Law teams, and development of the Law Department structure for Motorola Mobility. Scott also led the formation of the combined Intellectual Property (IP) business and Legal teams, which consistently generated significant licensing revenues. The organization delivered a significant impact to both cash flow and operating earnings for Motorola. Scott played a lead role in the 2010 RIM patent cross-license and litigation settlement and is currently leading patent litigations with both Apple and Microsoft. Since joining Motorola in 1990, Scott has served in leadership roles both in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and the U.S. Offer received his LLB law degree from The London School of Economics. Prior to joining Motorola, he worked for the law firm Boodle Hatfield and Royal Dutch Shell plc.
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About Flex: Flex is the Sketch-to-Scale solutions provider that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world.
Paul Baldassari
EVP US and Component Operations of Strategy and Excellence of Flex
Paul Baldassari is the EVP US & Component Operations, Strategy and Excellence and former Chief Human Resources Officer of Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX). Flex is the Sketch-to-Scale™ solutions provider that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world. With approximately 200,000 professionals across 30 countries, Flex provides innovative design, engineering, manufacturing, real-time supply chain insight and logistics services to companies of all sizes in various industries and end-markets. Prior to his current position, Mr. Baldassari lead the operational excellence, corporate asset management, real estate and quality teams. Previously, he held various positions in IT, project and program management, operations and company-wide lean and Six Sigma initiatives. He joined Flex in 2000 to transition the company to a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Before joining Flex, Mr. Baldassari was an ERP consultant at Origin, managing various implementation projects for international companies. Mr. Baldassari holds a bachelor’s of science in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
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About Flex: Flex is the Sketch-to-Scale solutions provider that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world.
Jeremy Werner
CVP & GM Storage Business Unit 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.
Christopher Moore
VP of Marketing,Mobile Business Unit of Micron Technology
Christopher Moore is the VP of Marketing (Mobile Business Unit) at Micron Technology. He has over 20 years of leadership experience in engineering, marketing, and operations at NASA, Intel, Matrix Semiconductor, SanDisk, and Micron.
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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.
Jeff VerHeul
Senior Vice President, Nonvolatile Engineering of Micron Technology
Jeff VerHeul is the senior vice president for corporate engineering where he oversees the development of SanDisk’s growing portfolio of SSD, embedded and removable products and solutions. VerHeul brings 30 years of engineering and management experience to SanDisk where joined from Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC), now a part of Microchip Technology. At SMSC he was senior vice president of engineering. Prior to that, he held executive roles at AMD in platform solutions engineering and silicon design. Verheul began his career at IBM where he spent 25 years in positions that included the vice president of server development, vice president of product development for microelectronics, and vice president of engineering and technology services. VerHeul holds a master’s degree in management of technology from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University.
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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.
Neil Kim
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Marvell
Neil Kim is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology. In this role, Neil oversees Marvells advanced technology and process development efforts. Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Neil served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and Central Engineering at Broadcom, where he was responsible for all centralized engineering development, global operations and procurement. During his 17-year tenure at Broadcom, he also held a variety of senior management positions in engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Western Digital. A holder of 33 patents, he earned his BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Dan Christman
Executive Vice President of Storage Group of Marvell
Dan Christman is the Executive Vice President of the Storage Business Group at Marvell Technology. In this role, Dan oversees Marvell’s HDD, SSD and Networked Enterprise Storage solutions. Dan joined Marvell Technology in 2016 as Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning, before assuming his current role in 2017. Previously, Dan served as Chief Marketing Officer at ESS Technology, where he was responsible for product roadmaps and strategy, as well as marketing and global customer relationships. Earlier in his career, Dan spent 17 years at Maxim Integrated in various executive and general management roles, where he earned a reputation for his ability to identify new market trends, grow new revenue streams and transform struggling business units into profitable growth engines. Dan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Physics from SUNY Oneonta.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Nigel Alvares
Vice President of Solutions Marketing of Marvell
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Mitch Gaynor
Executive Vice President, Chief Administration & Legal Officer of Marvell
Mitch Gaynor is Marvell Technology’s Chief Administration and Legal Officer. In this role, he oversees the company’s Human Resources, Legal, Compliance and Government Affairs teams. Mitch has more than 20 years’ experience as an executive officer at publicly-held tech companies where he lead their legal departments. Prior to joining Marvell in 2016, Mitch was an executive officer and General Counsel at Juniper Networks, Portal Software and Sybase, Inc. He started his legal career at the San Francisco law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Mitch previously served as Marvell’s acting Chief Human Resources Officer in 2016, working to transform the company’s work environment into one in which employees can do their best work, grow their careers, and share in the company’s success. Mitch earned a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Marvell: Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Alex Jacobs
Co-Founder & VP Engineering of Sila Nanotechnologies
Alex Jacobs is a Co-Founder & VP Engineering at Sila Nanotechnologies. Prior to Sila, he designed and developed battery packs at Tesla, including those used in the Roadster and Daimler’s Smart Fortwo electric drive. He later oversaw battery cell build and test at lithium ion materials manufacturer Amprius. Earlier in his career Alex worked in product design at IDEO, where he co-developed two novel medical devices for a Fortune 500 client, both now FDA approved and in production. Alex holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and has co-authored 18 issued or pending US patents.
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About Sila Nanotechnologies: Sila Nanotechnologies is a provider and manufacturer of higher energy density lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
Craig Weich
VP Business Development of Sila Nanotechnologies
Craig Weich has 15+ years of experience productizing emerging technology and developing markets for those new products across a range of industries worldwide. Craig Weich is VP Business Development at Sila Nanotechnologies. Sila enables longer-lasting batteries for smaller, lighter electronics, empowering mass adoption of electric cars, and enabling energy storage in support of renewable power. We are backed by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. Craig began his career in the General Electric Financial Management Program and in telecommunications Research and Development.This business and technology background is the foundation for his subsequent roles at venture-backed startups building new products and markets for innovative technologies across multiple industries: Electronics, Energy, Industrial, Defense, Government, and Telecom. Craig is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont with a B.S. in Finance, holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, and has been awarded three patents in data networking.
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About Sila Nanotechnologies: Sila Nanotechnologies is a provider and manufacturer of higher energy density lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
Dongyan Wang
VP AI Transformation of Landing AI
Dongyan Wang is currently the VP AI Transformation at Landing AI, a company founded by Andrew Ng to empower companies with artificial intelligence. Prior to Landing AI, He served as senior executive for multiple Fortune Global 500 enterprises such as Midea Group, NetApp, and Cisco, leveraging artificial intelligence, data science and blockchain technologies to lead strategic enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. He has also served as the COO of Grand Intelligence, a technology consulting company, and Chief AI Officer of a Blockchain+AI startup. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He holds more than 10 granted US granted US patents, 10+ international patents, and 30+ pending patents.
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About Landing AI: Landing AI applies AI and deep learning to help manufacturers solve challenging visual inspection problems and generate business value.
Paul Hagelin
Vice President, MEMS Engineering of SiTime
Paul is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation. He joined SiTime in 2005 to direct the development and fabrication of SiTime’s microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonator devices. Under Paul’s leadership, SiTime delivered the industry’s first production MEMS used in timing and launched revolutionary technologies such as TempFlat™ MEMS, which delivers best-in-class performance, size and reliability for mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables. Prior to joining SiTime, Paul co-founded C Speed Corporation in 1998, where he led the development of MEMS micromirrors for optical switching. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, a Master’s of Science degree in Mechatronics and Optical Engineering from Loughborough University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Davis. He holds over 30 patents in the fields of micromachining and optical systems.
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About PowerFlare, SiTime: SiTime Corporation is an analog semiconductor company offering MEMS-based silicon timing solutions.
George Thangadurai
Senior Vice President & Head of International Business of Borqs Technologies
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About Borqs Technologies, HEAL Software: Borqs Technologies is a high-tech company providing intelligent terminal software and end-to-end service platforms.
Anthony Chen
CFO and Executive Vice President of Borqs Technologies
Anthony K. Chan, is our CFO and Executive Vice President, Corporate Finance and has joined our company since April 2015. Mr. Chan has over 30 years of experience in U.S. and China cross border investments and business operations. From July 2013 until March 2015, Mr. Chan served as the President of Asia Sourcing for Portables Unlimited in New York, a distributor of T-Mobile USA. From March 2009 until July 2013, he served as the CFO for Tianjin Tong Guang Digital Broadcasting Co. Ltd, a mobile communications products company. For the 20 years prior to that, he was involved in multiple investment and technology transfer projects between China, the U.S and Europe, in the areas of communication products, chemical fibers, textile machinery and medical equipment. Mr. Chan received both his bachelor’s and MBA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Borqs Technologies: Borqs Technologies is a high-tech company providing intelligent terminal software and end-to-end service platforms.
Doug Bailey
Vice President Marketing and Applications Engineering of Power Integrations
Vice President Marketing & Applications Engineering│Power Integrations│Brand Value In Global Markets.
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About Power Integrations: Power Integrations designs, develops, markets, and manufactures high-voltage, analog integrated circuits.
Junli Gu
Vice President of Autonomous Driving of Xpeng Motors
Dr. Junli Gu is VP of Autonomous Driving at XMotors.ai, where she leads the efforts to build the self-driving solution on XMotors’ own massive production of electric cars. Before she joined Xmotors, Dr. Gu was lead for machine learning at Tesla Motors and developed key components of Tesla’s Autopilot 2.0.
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About Xpeng Motors: Xiaopeng Motors is an electric vehicle and technology company that designs and manufactures smart cars.
Atman Buch
VP of Global Business Development and Account Mgt of Cosmo
Over 10 years of experience in Product Development, Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, and Business Development.
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About Cosmo: Comprehensive manufacturing solutions provider, specializing in engineered soft-goods, material innovation, and sustainability.
Christopher Hernandez
Sector VP NG Next of Northrop Grumman
Sector VP NG Next at Northrop Grumman Corporation.
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About Northrop Grumman: Northrop Grumman is a global security company providing solutions for sectors such as aerospace, electronics and technical services.
Paul McGuire
Vice President of Sales & Marketing of SunStream Technology, Inc
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About SunStream Technology, Inc: Designs and manufactures handheld pico-solar panels to charge mobile phones for the 1.5 billion people who live off-grid in Africa
Bhavin Shah
Vice President of Engineering and Quality of Paramit Corporation
Bhavin joined Paramit in 2014. Bhavin brings with him over 20 years of experience in developing products involving hardware and software/firmware for multiple industries. Prior to Paramit, Bhavin spent 5 years at Diamond Systems, managing engineering teams developing high precision digital and analog PCBAs and 9+ years with Asyst Technologies. Bhavin has a BSEE from the Mumbai University(India) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing from C-DAC (India).
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About Paramit Corporation: Paramit designs and manufactures medical devices and life science instruments.
Francesco Grieco
Vice President of Operations of Paramit Corporation
Francesco Grieco is the VP of Operations at Paramit Corporation.
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About Paramit Corporation: Paramit designs and manufactures medical devices and life science instruments.
Andy Sherman
Vice President, Manufacturing Operations of Fictiv
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About Fictiv: Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that delivers precision parts on-demand through its digital platform and global partner network.
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.
Mark Talarico
Global Vice President – Endurance Sports / International of OGIO International
Mark Talarico is the Global Vice President – Endurance Sports / International at OGIO International.
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About OGIO International: OGIO International, Inc. designs and manufactures bags, backpacks, and travel luggage.
Brian Witten
VP & Product Security Officer of Raytheon
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About Raytheon: Raytheon Technologies is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services.
Spencer Sias
Vice President, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations of Varian
Spencer Sias joined Varian Medical Systems in 1999 when it became one of three independent businesses created by the spin-off of Varian Associates, Inc. He manages investor relations and corporate communications including public relations, employee communications and community relations for the company.
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About Varian: Varian Medical Systems is a manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions.
Franco Palomba
Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer of Varian
Franco N. Palomba is responsible for domestic and international cash management, foreign exchange activites, derivatives, credit, receivables, and stock administration. He is also responsible for the company’s risk management, tax, fleet, and travel functions. Palomba joined Varian Medical Systems in 2004, after serving as vice president and controller of Varian, Inc. since 1999. From 1984 to 1999, Palomba worked with Varian Associates, Coopers&Lybrand, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, in various audit management positions.
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About Varian: Varian Medical Systems is a manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions.
Patrick Joda
Vice President and General Manager of Varian
Patrick Joda assumed the role of vice president and general manager of Varian’s Oncology Systems Customer Support Services in November 2011. Joda joined the company in 2005, as senior director of Oncology Systems (OS) manufacturing. In 2006, he was promoted to the position of vice president, OS worldwide operations. In 2009, he assumed the responsibility for OS worldwide engineering.
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About Varian: Varian Medical Systems is a manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions.
Ali Taslimi
EVP, Head Americas Sales and Marketing of Cambridge Industries Group
Ali Taslimi is Executive VP and Head of Americas Sales and Marketing at Cambridge Industries USA, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was Senior VP and Head of NA Carrier IP Networking Division at Hitachi responsible for introducing Hitachi’s flagship APRESIA® Carrier Ethernet product portfolio in NA. Mr. Taslimi has spent 20 years in various engineering and executive management roles at AT&T Bell Laboratories / Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Fujitsu. He has also co-founded two Silicon Valley startups. Mr. Taslimi received his Engineer EE and MSEE degrees from Columbia University in City of New York and BSEE from Ohio University. He is co-author of two pending patents.
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About Cambridge Industries Group: CIG can partner with your company to better serve your customer needs.
Joseph P. Kuterbach
Vice President, Operations & Technology Transfer of Genomatica
Joe has served as our Vice President, Operations and Technology Transfer since March 2010. From July 1998 to March 2010, Joe was a manager of process engineering at LyondellBasell Industries N.V., or Lyondell, a petrochemicals company. Before it was acquired by Lyondell, Joe worked at ARCO Chemical Company from June 1980 to July 1998, in research and development, plant technical and operations and process engineering. Prior to that, from June 1976 to June 1980, Joe worked in process engineering at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., a gas and chemicals company. Joe holds an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University.
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About Genomatica: Genomatica manufactures sustainable chemicals from renewable feedstocks.
Nelson Barton
Vice President, Research & Development of Genomatica
Nelson has served as our Vice President of Research and Development since October 2011. From 2000 to 2011, Nelson held several roles at Verenium Corporation (formerly Diversa Corporation), including Vice President, R&D from 2008 to 2009, Sr. Vice President, R&D from 2009 to 2010 and Head of R&D starting in 2010 when Verenium’s biofuels business was acquired by BP Biofuels Corporation. From 1996 to 2000, he was Fermentation Scientist and Manager, R&D Biologics with Calbiochem-Novabiochem. Nelson holds a BA in Molecular Biology from University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from University of Miami, School of Medicine. Nelson was a Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, Department of Cell and Development Biology and a Howard Hughes fellow at University of California, San Diego, Department of Pharmacology.
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About Genomatica: Genomatica manufactures sustainable chemicals from renewable feedstocks.
Sara Liu Liang
Co-Founder, Vice President of Operations, Treasurer and Director of Supermicro
Chiu-Chu (Sara) Liu Liang co-founded Supermicro and has served as Vice President of Operations, Treasurer and a member of our board of directors since our inception in September 1993. From 1985 to 1993, Ms. Liang held finance and operational positions for several companies, including Micro Center Computer Inc. Ms. Liang holds a B.S. in Accounting from Providence University in Taiwan. Ms. Liang is married to Mr. Charles Liang.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Wally Liaw
Co-Founder, Vice President of International Sales, Secretary and Director of Supermicro
Yih-Shyan (Wally) Liaw co-founded Supermicro and has served as Vice President of International Sales, Corporate Secretary and a member of our board of directors since our inception in September 1993. From 1988 to 1991, Mr. Liaw was Vice President of Engineering at Great Tek, a computer company. Mr. Liaw holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan, and a B.S. degree from Taiwan Provincial College of Marine and Oceanic Technology.
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Matt Thauberger
Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of Supermicro
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About Supermicro: Supermicro is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation.
Renu Chabra
VP Manufacturing and Engineering of Sepragen
Renu Chabra, Vice President of Manufacturing and Engineering at Sepragen, Ms. Chabra has over 25 years of professional experience at start-up companies such as Kinetech and Transtech, and global companies such as Varian and Intergraph. Her experience includes technical management in product development, engineering, software development, manufacturing and operations including off shoring. Over the last ten years, Ms. Chabra has been responsible for the development of Sepragen’s QuantaSep chromatography workstations while directing Sepragen’s manufacturing activities. Ms. Chabra holds a B.S. from California State University, San Francisco.
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About Sepragen: Sepragen provides break-through products and processes to the biotechnology and nutraceutical industries.
Michael Hack
Vice President of Business Development of Universal Display Corporation
Michael Hack, Ph.D. became the General Manager of OLED Lighting & Custom Displays in January 2010. Prior to joining us, Michael was associated with dpiX, a Xerox Company, where from 1996 to 1999 he was responsible for manufacturing flat panel displays and digital medical imaging products based on amorphous silicon TFT technology. Previously, Michael was a Principal Scientist with Xerox PARC, engaged in the research of material and device aspects of amorphous- and poly-silicon as related to flat panel displays. Michael received his Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University, England in 1981, and in 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Society for Information Display.
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About Universal Display Corporation: Universal Display Corporation is a leader in the research, development and commercialization of organic light emitting diode.
Alan Reid
Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources of Sanmina Corporation
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About Sanmina Corporation: Sanmina Corporation (Nasdaq: SANM) is a leading integrated manufacturing solutions provider serving the fastest-growing segments of the
