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Bryan Ingram
Agilent Technologies - Vice President and General Manager, Wireless
Semiconductor Division |
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Joe Krisciunas
GE Infrastructure Sensing - Vice President, Global Technology
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Arimasa Naitoh
IBM - IBM Fellow, CTO, and Vice President of Technology, Personal
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Todd Schivo
SUSS North American Test Division SUSS MicroTec - West Coast
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Michael Steidl
Amkor Technology - Vice President, Advanced Product Developmet |
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Dr. Paul Werbaneth
Tegal Corporation - Regional Marketing Director for North America
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Marlene
Bourne
In-Stat/MDR - Senior
Analyst
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Marlene Bourne is a senior analyst at In-Stat/MDR, with responsibility
for the company's MEMS Markets & Technologies Service.
Her global coverage of MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems)
extends from the chip to the end-use product, and she is widely
recognized as one of the leading experts on the devices, companies,
markets and applications of this dynamic, emerging industry.
In 2003, Ms. Bourne was chosen as a finalist for Small Times
Magazine's Best of Small Tech "Advocate of the Year"
Award. This prestigious series of awards honor the people,
products, and companies leading the growth of the MEMS and
Nanotechnology industries.
Ms. Bourne has provided insight on MEMS to many business and
technical publications, including Business 2.0, The Economist,
Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, Los Angeles Times Magazine,
the New York Times, PC Magazine, and USA Today. She has appeared
on CNET News, authored articles for Electronic News, EE Times,
and other industry journals, and is a regular contributor
to MicroNano Newsletter and Small Times Magazine.
Prior to joining In-Stat/MDR, Ms. Bourne worked as a freelance
industry analyst specializing in MEMS, as well as a wide range
of sensors and sensor-based technologies. She holds a Bachelor
of Science in Business from the University of Wisconsin -
Stout, and a Master of Arts in International Affairs (with
concentrations in International Business and Economics) from
the American University in Washington, DC.
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Roberto
Della Marina
Olivetti I-Jet - Vice
President, MEMS Marketing & Business Development
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Roberto Della Marina joined Olivetti I-Jet S.p.A. in July
2003 as Vice President and Director of Marketing & Business
Development for MEMS products. Olivetti I-Jet S.p.A., part
of Telecom Italia Group, is one of the four producers in the
world capable to develop, manufacture and commercialize thermal
ink-jet heads for use in the captive and OEM printing application
markets.
Prior to join Olivetti I-Jet he was Business Development Manager
for Life Science & Foundry Services in Colibrys SA, a
leading global provider of MEMS solutions for Industrial,
Navigation, Optical Telecom and Life Science applications
based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He successfully headed
the business development in the biomedical field by negotiating,
acquiring and managing several new developments including
label free protein chips, capillary electrophoresis platforms,
silicon micro spectrophotometers and single photon counting
imaging devices. Since Jan 2002 he was also responsible for
the Colibrys' Foundry Services operations.
In 1995 he joined the Microtechnology Division of CSEM (Swiss
Centre of Electronics and Microtechnology SA) in Neuchâtel
(CH) as ionising particle detectors expert after many years
spent in fundamental research in elementary particle physics
shared among many laboratories in Italy, CERN (Geneva, Switzerland)
and SLAC (Stanford, USA). After holding several technical
and commercial positions in CSEM, Dr. Della Marina was among
the founding core of people who headed up the spin-off of
Colibrys in January 2001.
Roberto Della Marina holds a BS degree cum laude in Physics
(Laurea in Fisica) from the University of Trieste, Italy,
and received a Ph.D. in Physics from ETH Zürich, Switzerland,
for his work on the design and development of a radiation
hard technology for silicon position sensitive devices. He
is co-author of more than 100 scientific papers and is distinguished
referee for ASI, Italian Space Agency.
He is happily married and father of a young daughter and enjoys
skiing, hiking and sailing.
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Michael
Dierks
Intel Capital - Director,
Strategic Investments
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Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment program, focuses
on making equity investments and acquisitions to grow the
Internet economy in support of Intel's strategic interests.
Intel Capital invests in hardware, software and services companies
in several market segments, including computing, networking,
and wireless communications. Mike Dierks is a Director of
Strategic Investments and supports activities in emerging
technology areas, including MEMS, nanotechnology, and proactive
computing. Based in Santa Clara, California, Mike dotted-line
reports to Intel Research. He has led Intel's investment and
business development efforts with companies including Crossbow,
Iridigm, and Nanosys, and serves as Intel's board observer
at several portfolio companies. Prior to his current position,
Mike provided legal counsel to Intel and was in private law
practice in New York City. Mike holds a JD with honors from
Harvard Law School (1993) and a BSE in electrical engineering
and computer science from Duke University (1990), where he
graduated first in his class and was a General Motors Scholar.
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Bryan
Ingram
Agilent
Technologies - Vice President and General Manager, Wireless
Semiconductor Division
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Bryan Ingram is vice president and general manager of Agilent's
Wireless Semiconductor Division, a part of the Semiconductor
Products Group, headquartered in San Jose, California. This
division produces RF semiconductor products for use in wireless
communications handset and infrastructure applications.
Ingram joined Hewlett-Packard/Agilent in 1990 after holding
a number of engineering and marketing positions at Westinghouse
Electric Corporation. At Agilent, Ingram has headed up the
strategic marketing effort and the marketing department for
communications components prior to accepting his vice president/general
manager post.
Ingram holds a bachelor's of science degree in electrical
engineering and communications systems from the University
of Illinois and an MSEE from Johns Hopkins University.
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Joe
Krisciunas
GE
Infrastructure Sensing -
Vice President, Global Technology
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Joe was born in Philadelphia, PA and received his BEE from
Villanova University in 1988 and his MSEE from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in 1991.
Joe's career began with GE in 1988 with GE Aerospace in Camden,
NJ as a member of the Edison Engineering program. In 1990
he joined the research staff of the Electronic Systems Laboratory
at the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY. In 1993,
Joe moved to Industrial Systems in Plainville, CT as a project
leader in new product introduction.
In 1995, Joe was promoted to systems technology manager where
he introduced market leading communications and software products
in a growing segment of the industrial electrical market.
In 1997 he became a Master Black Belt in the Six Sigma program,
leading the commercial quality initiative for Industrial Systems.
In 1999 and 2000, Joe was marketing manager and business leader
for the GE Total Lighting Control business, a P&L that
designed, manufactured, installed and serviced commercial
lighting control systems.
In 2001, Joe returned to the GE Global Research Center as
business program manager responsible for all research programs
for GE Industrial Systems. In 2003, Joe accepted responsibility
for GE's global sensing technology, including MEMS and nano-technologies
among others, and transitioned to his present role as global
technology leader for GE Infrastructure Sensing.
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Chris
Lumb
Micralyne - President
and CEO
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Micralyne is a profitable, growing, MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical
systems) developer and manufacturer based in Edmonton, Alberta.
It uses micro-machining technology to develop and manufacture
miniaturized components that enable radical improvements in
telecommunications, bioanalysis and automotive instrumentation.
Micralyne has manufacturing and development partnerships in
place with a number of major instrument companies, including
Applied Biosystems, JDS-Uniphase, MDS Sciex, Creo Products,
Kavlico Inc., and other market leaders. During the last 15 years,
Micralyne has evolved into one of North America's leading commercial
MEMS and Microsystems companies. The ISO 9001 registered company
operates a 40,000 sq. ft. facility in Edmonton and employs about
85 people.
Mr. Lumb graduated from the University of Waterloo with a
Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering in 1982.
He has been the CEO of Micralyne since 1994. Mr. Lumb has
been involved in all aspects of Micralyne's development, including
leading its transition from a university-owned not-for-profit
to a privately held commercial company, generating long-term
revenue growth of 25% per year for the last 5 years, and delivering
profitable net income and return on equity for every year
of operations. He raised startup financing of $5.3 million
for Micralyne's privatization, and has raised additional equity
capital for Micralyne with orders of magnitude value increase
for shareholders. He has been directly involved in major business
development initiatives that have resulted in the company
having long-term business relationships in place with market
leading customers. Overall, Mr. Lumb's career has been centered
around building long-term commercial success for advanced
technologies, and management of technology organizations to
ensure they are profitably focused on addressing market needs.
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Arimasa
Naitoh
IBM - IBM Fellow,
CTO, and Vice President of Technology, Personal Computing Division
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Mr. Naitoh was named to his current position in October,
2003. He is the Chief Technical Officer and Vice President
of Technology for the Personal Computer Division, and holds
the designation of IBM Fellow.
Mr. Naitoh has been with IBM for 30 years and has held numerous
assignments in hardware business development. Previous assignments
include Director of Portable Systems, APTO, Development manager
for IBM ThinkPads, Technical Assistant to Mr. Nicholas Donofrio,
Entry Systems Division, engineering manager for PS/55 Japanese
PC/workstations, and other engineering assignments.
Mr. Naitoh holds the following designations within IBM as
IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Distinguished Engineer,
IBM Fellow and is a member of IBM Academy of Technology.
Mr. Naitoh holds a degree in Instrumental Engineering from
Keio University, Japan. He is currently on international assignment
from Japan. Mr. Naitoh and his wife, Yumiko, reside in Raleigh,
North Carolina. Mr. Naitoh enjoys playing golf in his free
time.
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David
Narraway
F-Origin - R& D Director
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Mr. Narraway has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications
field. Before joining F-Origin, Mr. Narraway worked as a Product
Manager in MyOrigo Ltd. During his employment at MyOrigo he
has been extensively involved in the development of MyOrigo's
flagship product, a new multimedia smartphone called MyDevice.
Activities have included development of the unique orientation
sensitive features of the MyDevice, applications and management
roles.
Prior to that Mr. Narraway has worked in several R&D managerial
positions in Nokia Mobile Phones (various R&D Team Leader
roles developing product software; Project Manager, UI Projects,
re-engineering the UI for lower end phones), Sonera (Director,
Client Devices at SmartTrust, responsible for projects to
embed SmartTrust technology in handheld devices) and other
companies in the telecommunications sector.
Mr. Narraway holds a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
(Beng(T)), as well as a BA and most recently a Post Graduate
Diploma in Computing and Manufacturing. Although most of his
working life has been spent in the UK, Mr. Narraway has worked
for a total of seven years in Finland, where he currently
resides
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Tomohiro
Otani
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. - Senior
Research Engineer
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Tomohiro Otani received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees
in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo,
Japan, in 1992, 1994, 2002, and Professional Engineering degree
in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York,
in 1998, respectively.
In 1994, he joined Submarine Cable Systems Dept. of KDDI Corporation.
In 1998, he became a research engineer of Optical Network
Group in KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. His research interests
have been intelligent optical networks.
He received the Young Engineering Award from the Institute
of Electrical, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
of Japan in 1999. He is a member of the IEICE.
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Candace
Petersen, PhD
InFocus - Vice President,
Corporate Marketing & Strategy
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Candace Petersen is Vice President, Corporate Marketing and
Strategy and has been with InFocus since November 2000. From
1997, she served as associate professor at Portland State
University's MBA program, and was Principal and Founder of
Petersen and Prusia, an advanced display industry consulting
firm. For the four years previous to that, she was at InFocus
as Director and Manager, Marketing Development and Business
Analysis. Dr. Petersen has nearly three decades of business
experience in high tech and industrial companies. She held
various management positions in corporate strategy, business
analysis and marketing including corporate economist for IBM.
Dr. Petersen is a noted consultant in the advanced display
industry, and developed several projector user studies, forecast
models, and product sales tracking services. In addition to
a BA degree in Mathematics and Economics from Virginia Tech,
Candace also has MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Portland State
University. She has also served as an adjunct professor for
Oregon Graduate Institute's Masters in Science and Technology
program, and Oregon's state-wide MBA distance learning program.
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Pamela
J. Roth
Spiral Communications
-Co-Founder and President
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Ms. Roth has more than 25 years experience in technology
strategies and marketing. She is cofounder of and consults
for SPIRAL Communications Corporation, a tech management practice
whose client list includes Bard Medical Systems, Burroughs-Wellcome,
Progress Software, Cognos, NCR, and IBM Switzerland. She is
Publisher of SPIRAL Books, a publisher of technical publications.
As Conference and Special Events Director at Sensors/Advanstar,
Communications, Inc., she specialized in sensor-enabling and
sensor-enabled technology, including wireless sensor networks,
nanotechnology, and intelligent systems. The revamping and
expansion of the Sensors Conference, the development of the
Business of Sensors Symposium, and development and execution
of special technical events increased revenue more than 50%
over projections. She compiled "Data Warehousing and
Decision Support: The State of the Art," Volumes 1 and
2, two sets of industry market analyses about data warehousing
and decision support; authored four books on computing; and
edited or authored numerous sets of technical proceedings,
whitepapers, and articles. Ms. Roth has taught business and
technology courses at Northeastern University and Boston University.
She holds degrees from Hofstra University, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, and the New England School of Law.
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Todd
Schivo
SUSS North American Test Division SUSS MicroTec
- West Coast Sales Manager
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Todd Schivo has been in the Semiconductor business for approximately
10 years. He has held technical product management and sales
positions with Semix, Accretech and SUSS Microtec. He has
extensive experience with back end Test and Assembly Equipment.
Presently he is the West Coast Sales Manager for the SUSS
North American Test Division. Todd has extensive manual, semiautomatic
and fully automatic probing experience and is versed in many
different applications and markets.
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Michael
Steidl
Amkor Technology - Vice
President, Advanced Product Developmen
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Michael Steidl is Senior Vice President, Advanced Product
Development for Amkor Technology. He is responsible for Worldwide
R&D activities and the development of new products. Products
include 3D Packaging, Memory Cards, MEMS application, Camera
Modules, etc.
His previous positions at Amkor include Vice President of
System in Package and Vice President of Emerging Product business
units. Products included modules for the RF and wireless applications
(RFPA, WLAN, Bluetooth, Transceiver, etc.), modules for the
Computing and Network applications, 3D packaging, Flip Chip
packaging, Wafer Scale packaging, Wafer Bumping, and Thin
versions of "Chip Size Packages".
Michael has 20 years of semiconductor packaging experience
and has held positions with Intel, LSI Logic, VLSI Technology,
and Philips Semiconductor. Michael has a MS degree from the
University of Akron in Mechanical Engineering.
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Dr.
Reiner Wechsung
STEAG microParts GmbH -
CEO
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Dr. Reiner Wechsung has served as CEO of STEAG microParts
GmbH since 1991 and has been responsible for the development
of the company from its inception.
Dr. Wechsung holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University
of Frankfurt. He started his industrial career in the R&D
department of Leybold-Heraeus, a world leader in vacuum technology,
he later formed and managed their business unit for analytical
instruments specialising in microprobe analysis and biomedical
applications.
Dr. Wechsung holds several board memberships in national and
international organizations for microsystem technologies.
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Paul
Werbaneth
Tegal Corporation -
Regional Marketing Director for North America and Japan
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Paul Werbaneth is a Regional Marketing Director at Tegal
Corporation. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical
Engineering from Cornell University in 1979, and has worked
for more than 20 years in semiconductor process engineering
and technical marketing positions at Intel, Hitachi America
Ltd., and Tegal. Mr. Werbaneth is a member of AVS, ECS, IEEE,
the Japan Society of Northern California, and SPIE, and is
active on the GaAs MANTECH Technical Program Committee, the
MEMS Industry Group, the SEMI International MEMS Steering
Group, and the Steering Committee of the Advanced Semiconductor
Manufacturing Conference (ASMC 2004 Conference Co-Chair).
He is the author or co-author of more than 40 papers and articles
explaining all aspects of plasma etch processing.
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