Experience

Swave Photonics

• Belgium
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  Menlo Park, California, United States



Finwave Semiconductor, Inc.

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Board of Directors

  • Feb 2023 - Present



SES AI Corp

• United States
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Board Of Directors

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Woburn, Massachusetts, United States SES is the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of Li-Metal systems including materials, cells, modules, algorithm and recycling. Born, bred and headquartered in Boston, it has operations in Boston, Shanghai and Seoul.



SK Growth Opportunities

• Member Board Of Directors

  • Jun 2022 - Present



SiFive, Mythic, Monolets, Graph Audio, Qromis, eFabless, Jeeva Wireless, Energous, Rambus, LocatorX

• Board Director, Advisor

  • 2014 - Present



MixComm Inc

• Semiconductors
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • 2019 - 2022

  Chatham, NJ MixComm is the leader in RFSOI mmWave solutions founded and led by wireless semiconductor veterans from Columbia University, Qualcomm, IBM Research, NXP and GlobalFoundries. Acquired by Sivers Semiconductors in 2022.



Silego Technology Inc.

• Semiconductors
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP, Global Marketing, Sales & Business Development

  • 2016 - 2017

  Santa Clara, California, United States • Acquired by Dialog Semiconductor for $300M+ in November 2017 • Delivered record growth and revenue with over 400 design wins & 1.5B programmable devices shipped • Created & executed FPGA and Programmable Power business plan to accelerate product adoption



Ambiq

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Board Director / Interim CEO

  • 2014 - 2016

  Austin, Texas Area



Silicon Catalyst

• United States
• Semiconductors
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman and Co-Founder

  • 2014 - 2016

  The world's 1st incubator for semiconductor startups. EE Times Start of the Year in 2015.



GlobalFoundries

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Vice President, Global Products, Quality, Design, Sales & Marketing

  • 2011 - 2013

  Milpitas, CA • Transformed an operation that had lost significant market share due to a lack of execution, a poor customer experience and a commoditized product offering • Reinvigorated a worldwide team of over 3000, championed crucial customer designs into production, created a unified product management team, refined the product portfolio to drive sole-source wins in key verticals: Mobile, IoT, RF, and Automotive • Launched and executed “More than Moore” technology partnerships and programs for… Show more • Transformed an operation that had lost significant market share due to a lack of execution, a poor customer experience and a commoditized product offering • Reinvigorated a worldwide team of over 3000, championed crucial customer designs into production, created a unified product management team, refined the product portfolio to drive sole-source wins in key verticals: Mobile, IoT, RF, and Automotive • Launched and executed “More than Moore” technology partnerships and programs for FDSOI, mmWave, MRAM, GaN, 2.5/3D, MEMS, 300mm Analog and Non-volatile Memory, created and spearheaded Trusted Foundry collaboration • Through these initiatives, GlobalFoundries led the semiconductor industry with 31% growth in 2012, grew revenue from $3.2B to $4.3B and became the second largest foundry Show less



NXP Semiconductors

• Netherlands
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing

  • 2008 - 2011

  Eindhoven Area, Netherlands • Recruited by private equity sponsor (KKR) to turnaround NXP's sales and marketing following spin-out from Philips • In collaboration with NXP's CTO, crafted NXP's High Performance Mixed-Signal business strategy and repositioning • Aggressively upgraded the field applications engineering team, launched vertical market initiatives, and reinvested into distribution partners (growing NXP’s channel business to the 2nd largest in the industry) • Inspired a global team of 850 sales and… Show more • Recruited by private equity sponsor (KKR) to turnaround NXP's sales and marketing following spin-out from Philips • In collaboration with NXP's CTO, crafted NXP's High Performance Mixed-Signal business strategy and repositioning • Aggressively upgraded the field applications engineering team, launched vertical market initiatives, and reinvested into distribution partners (growing NXP’s channel business to the 2nd largest in the industry) • Inspired a global team of 850 sales and marketing professionals with new sales tools, technical training and incentives to drive design wins and profitable market share growth • Rebuilt revenue to $4B+, delivered 11 consecutive quarters of product revenue, margin and profit growth (+1.257B 2008-2011) all of which led to NXP’s successful IPO (NXPI) Show less



National Semiconductor

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing

  • 2005 - 2008

  Santa Clara, CA • Responsible for $1.9 billion (FY08) in revenue, 600+ employees • Reshaped the sales force to become a design-win focused, engineering-intensive team • Initiated, directed and staffed multiple sales and marketing initiatives that increased productivity, customer engagements, value pricing and new product revenue: • Member of corporate strategy council crafting business and technology roadmaps Key Achievement: • We grew analog to 99% of total revenue while also dramatically… Show more • Responsible for $1.9 billion (FY08) in revenue, 600+ employees • Reshaped the sales force to become a design-win focused, engineering-intensive team • Initiated, directed and staffed multiple sales and marketing initiatives that increased productivity, customer engagements, value pricing and new product revenue: • Member of corporate strategy council crafting business and technology roadmaps Key Achievement: • We grew analog to 99% of total revenue while also dramatically improving ASPs and gross margin (from 53.4% in FY05 to 64.4% in FY08) • Four of National’s most profitable years in its fifty year history

• Vice President, Wired Communications, PC & Networking, Interface Product Lines

  • 2001 - 2005

  • Recruited to turnaround networking and interface business units, added responsibility for National’s computing business • Responsible for $250M+ P&L, 300+ employees and six design centers around the world • Successfully transitioned business to a high performance analog focus with increased revenue, profit, margin and ASP • Launched new initiatives in areas such as broadcast video, security and industrial connectivity through aggressive product and business development Key… Show more • Recruited to turnaround networking and interface business units, added responsibility for National’s computing business • Responsible for $250M+ P&L, 300+ employees and six design centers around the world • Successfully transitioned business to a high performance analog focus with increased revenue, profit, margin and ASP • Launched new initiatives in areas such as broadcast video, security and industrial connectivity through aggressive product and business development Key Achievement: • Increased revenue 50% over 3 years and improved profitability by >$20M/quarter



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director New Markets & Technology

  • 1999 - 2001

  • Responsible for new product strategy and business development for business unit with billion dollar revenue • Successfully formed and led cross company teams to identify and launch multiple new products • Represented Cisco Systems at speaking engagements as Cisco’s Analyst Conference, Comdex, DSLCon, VPNCon, PC Expo • Represented the Commercial Line of Business in corporate-wide technology and marketing teams Key Achievement: • Developed new product plans and technology… Show more • Responsible for new product strategy and business development for business unit with billion dollar revenue • Successfully formed and led cross company teams to identify and launch multiple new products • Represented Cisco Systems at speaking engagements as Cisco’s Analyst Conference, Comdex, DSLCon, VPNCon, PC Expo • Represented the Commercial Line of Business in corporate-wide technology and marketing teams Key Achievement: • Developed new product plans and technology roadmaps for xDSL, Routing, IP Telephony, Security, Content Networking, Wireless and Internet Appliances product families • Successfully launched one of Cisco’s first ODM projects, an 802.11 IP phone Show less



8x8

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President Business Development

  • 1993 - 1999

  • Led broadband Internet telephony and streaming video product and market development • Responsible for sales of multimedia products in North America and Japan • Expanded 8x8 product offering through the acquisition of an cloud-based IP telephony software vendor • Negotiated marketing agreements with GTE, Bell Canada, and Williams Communications • Wrote and implemented business plan for communication appliance product line • Created alliances with strategic customers such as… Show more • Led broadband Internet telephony and streaming video product and market development • Responsible for sales of multimedia products in North America and Japan • Expanded 8x8 product offering through the acquisition of an cloud-based IP telephony software vendor • Negotiated marketing agreements with GTE, Bell Canada, and Williams Communications • Wrote and implemented business plan for communication appliance product line • Created alliances with strategic customers such as IBM, AT&T Bell Labs, Bellcore, Compression Labs, General Instruments, Panasonic and VideoServer • Established partnerships with Cisco, Broadcom, 3Com, and Tut Systems to develop and market 8x8’s broadband communications products Key Achievements: • 8x8’s successful IPO (EGHT) • Captured 80% market share of video communications codec market • Successful market introduction and design-in of the industry’s first single chip MPEG 1 and H.324 codec • Lead author of CableLabs’ PacketCable video communication specification • Negotiated co-marketing agreements with GTE, Bell Canada, and Williams Communications • Awarded four patents in the areas of IP and video telephony • Founded 8x8 subsidiary that developed and patented the first USB video compression device Show less



NCR Corporation

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Regional Sales Manager / Field Applications Engineer (Microelectronics)

  • 1990 - 1993

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States