Speaker Biographies

Dr. David Buckley, Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Product Line Management, Micralyne

David joined Micralyne in 2007 as Director of Product Line Management for Optical Devices. His background is in product development, product management, and commercialization with JDSU, Nortel, Kymata (now Gemfire) and a number of high-tech start-ups.

David has a proven track record in addressing the breadth of a customer’s requirements and delivering customer-oriented solutions. He ensures that Micralyne maintains a client-centred focus and that the company evolves to meet customers’ changing requirements. David holds a PhD and Bachelor of Science from the University of Bath, England.

 

Tom Chang, North America Marketing Consultant, Asia Pacific Microsystems (APM)

Tom Chang is the North America marketing consultant and representative of APM (Asia Pacific Microsystems, Inc.), a MEMS foundry service provider.

Tom’s background is in the thin-film and GMR magnetic head manufacturing. Tom was a founding member of several Silicon Valley start-ups including vice president of Engineering at Dastek, which was successfully acquired in 1992. From 1993 to 2006, Tom has taken engineering management positions at Samsung (USA), Read-Rite and another start-up StorCard, covering sensor development, wafer fab process development, sensor testing and integration.

Tom has been a co-chair of Asia-Pacific MEMS commercialization forum in 2004, a speaker at COMS2006, a panelist at SensorsExpo 2009 and a member of organizing committee of Transducer09. Tom is also a member of the advisory council of MANCEF and the current Vice President of Silicon Valley Taiwanese American Industrial Technology Association.

Tom holds MS ChE from UC Davis and is a graduate of Stanford-- Graduate School of Business executive program in 2001.

 

Asif Chowdhury, Director, World Wide Manufacturing, Analog Devices

Asif Chowdhury is working as a Director in the World Wide Manufacturing Organization at Analog Devices in charge of MEMS assembly engineering and package technology development. In his current role he works on providing technically innovative high volume and cost effective packaging and assembly solutions for MEMS products for various market applications such as automotive, consumer and biotechnology.

Before joining ADI in 2007, Asif worked at Amkor Technology for almost eighteen years in various roles including product management, process development, business development and product line management. He worked as an expatriate in Amkor Korea working in the R&D center as process development manager. Asif also was an expatriate in Amkor Japan for four years doing Japan business development working with all major Japanese semiconductor OEMs. In his last role at Amkor he was the Vice President of their largest revenue business unit which included BGA and DLP products.

Asif holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and Southern Methodist University (SMU) and currently pursuing his MBA and MS in Finance at Northeastern University.

 

Harry Engwer, Executive Director, Semiconductor Support Services (SSS Co.)

Harry Engwer has 26 years of semiconductor industry experience. He's currently managing global sales and manufacturing of refurbished semiconductor capital equipment, spares and support. He founded Integrated Labor Services (IL) from 2003-2009, a provider of technical and engineering resources to the semiconductor industry. He spent 8 years with Applied Materials in WW service product launch, sales of capital equipment, service and spares agreements, FAB start-up, staffing and management and 10 years with Motorola in equipment engineering, including greenfield start-up of 1st 200mm manufacturing facility. Prior to that, he spent 3 years with Digital Equipment Corp in Hudson, MA in equipment services management and 4 years in USAF air traffic control radar repair at Bergstrom AFB, Austin, TX. Harry is a graduate of St Edwards University, Austin, TX.

 

Roger Grace, President, Roger Grace Associates

Roger H. Grace is president of Roger Grace Associates, a Naples Florida-based marketing consulting firm specializing in high technology, which he founded in 1982. He is a co-founder and Past President of the Micro and Nanotechnology Commercialization Education Foundation (MANCEF). His background includes over 40 years in electronic circuit design, applications, and manufacturing engineering; project management; product marketing; and technology consulting.

Mr. Grace has specialized in sensors for over 25 years with a focus on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology. He has authored over 70 technical papers; organized, chaired, and spoken at numerous international professional conferences.

Mr. Grace is presently or has served as a member of the editorial advisory boards of Sensors Magazine, R ad D Magazine’s Micro/Nano Newsletter, NASA Nanotech Briefs, Small Times, ECN and A2C2. He is a frequent editorial contributor to EETimes, Small Times, MST News (Germany), Euro Asia Semiconductor (UK), Electronic Products and ECN. Mr. Grace has been quoted in many technology and business magazines as a MEMS marketing pundit including Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Week, EETimes and Electronic Design.

 

Dr. John Heck, Staff Scientist, Intel COrporation

John Heck received his PhD in applied physics from U. C. Berkeley in 2001, where he co-developed a SiGe MEMS process for integration with standard CMOS, which is a technology still being used today at several companies and institutions. Dr. Heck is currently a staff scientist at Intel Corporation, where he is in charge of silicon micromachining and bonding for Intel’s silicon photonics group. He previously led MEMS packaging and process development for Intel’s MEMS group, which demonstrated world-class achievements including a 1-billion cycle RF contact switch with only 3V actuation, and more recently in partnership with Nanochip demonstrated “the world’s most complex MEMS device” – a probe memory system incorporating an array of cantilevered tips integrated on standard CMOS, bonded to a lateral motion stage with ferroelectric media film. He holds 20 issued patents and has published widely on MEMS fabrication, integration, and packaging technologies.

 

Claude Jean, Executive Vice President and General Manager Foundry operations, DALSA Semiconductor

DALSA Semiconductor is a world leader in specialized foundry services focusing on MEMS, CCD and HV CMOS. Mr. Claude Jean was named Vice President and General Manager of DALSA Semiconductor's foundry in September 2007. He was Vice President & Assistant General Manager, DALSA Semiconductor from April 2004, and Director of Operations of DALSA Semiconductor between 2002 and 2004. Prior to that assignment he was Director of Operations for Zarlink Semiconductor. Mr. Jean holds a B.Sc. and a Masters degree in Physics from University of Sherbrooke, Canada, and a graduate degree in microelectronics from University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France. He also completed an MBA from University of Sherbrooke in 2006. He was appointed co-president of the board of directors of NanoQuebec in 2009.

Dr. Uwe Kleinkes, CEO, IVAM

Uwe Kleinkes received his PhD in Chemistry at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) in 1998. He worked as a scientist at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory in Brighton, UK. He studied chemistry at the University of Sussex and the Ruhr University Bochum. Uwe Kleinkes also worked as a journalist for print and radio. In 2000 he joined the Institute of Microtechnolgy in Mainz, Germany in the Marketing department and in this year he took over a position at IVAM where he is now CEO of the IVAM Microtechnology Network with 300 companies and institutes worldwide. Uwe is responsible for the business units IVAM B2B (technology marketing), Research (market data) and International.
 

Prakash Krishnan, Director of Marketing & Product Management, SVTC

Prakash Krishnan is the Director of Marketing & Product Management at SVTC Technologies. SVTC Technologies is an industry leading services provider focused on commercialization of novel silicon based technologies for e.g. Novel Memory, MEMS, Microfluidics and Photovoltaics. He received his BS in Materials Engineering from India in 1990 and MS in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Florida in 1995. After graduating in 1995, he started his career at Analog Devices as a Development Engineer developing new Semiconductor processes for analog products. Between 1997 and 2004, Prakash held various Engineering and Management positions in SRAM Semiconductor technology development at Cypress Semiconductor. Between 2004 and 2008, he was a member of the SVTC leadership team responsible for establishment of SVTC business model and successfully spinning out SVTC from Cypress Semiconductor. In his current role at SVTC, Prakash Krishnan is responsible for identification of new market opportunities for SVTC and developing technology capabilities and roadmaps to penetrate those markets. His current focus is on MEMS technology with specific emphasis on next generation products like Lab-on-a-Chip and Sensors. Prakash has authored and co-authored six publications and has two patents granted in the field of Lithography process development.

Dr. Eric Lautenschlager, MEMS Engineering Manager, Knowles Electronics

Dr Eric Lautenschlager is the MEMS Engineering Manager for Knowles Electronics, the leading manufacturer of silicon based MEMS microphones. Prior to Knowles, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist within the Advanced Sensing and Microsystems Lab of Honeywell International, developing high performance MEMS gyroscopes for use in inertial systems. He has also worked as a Senior Device Engineer for Cypress Semiconductor, focusing on transistor design and process integration. Dr. Lautenschlager earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas while researching nano-scale semiconductor Physics , and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois.

Eric Levy-Myers, Adjunct Consultant, Science Technology Policy Institute

An independent consultant, Eric is currently a Senior Associate at Intelligent Decision Partners, as well as an Adjunct Consultant with the Institute for Defense Analyses and Science Technology Policy Institute. Eric has extensive strategic, management and ICT consulting experience with a focus is on strategic business issues within multiple industries and countries. His particular emphasis is on nexus of technology and business/policy for the public sector and the military.

In the government sector, Eric has supported various agencies including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of Naval Research, Department of the Air Force on various projects that generally involve the use of, and threats from, disruptive technology and the use of Open Source Intelligence. And most recently, for OSD, he authored a study: Technology Roadmap for Sense and Respond Logistics. Eric is currently supporting the Science and Technology Policy Institute in exploring the relationship of domestic technology innovation to job creation.

In the commercial sector, Eric has a proven record of success in helping clients analyze complex business problems and develop customer-centric capabilities especially in entrepreneurial environments. This has included developing business strategies, performing due diligence for VC investments and writing business cases, as well as founding. managing and growing a business unit for a large consulting firm. 

Chris Milne, Manager – MEMS Process and Support Engineering, Honeywell

During his tenure at Honeywell, Chris has worked on a wide variety of MEMS products including high performance inertial sensors, micro-mirrors, devices for biotech, automotive sensors and several devices for homeland security. Organizationally, Chris has held multiple positions, including: Process Engineer – Metallization, Sr Project Engineer, MEMS Operations Manager, MEMS Program Manager and most recently, Manager – MEMS Process and Support Engineering. Chris is a founding member of the Honeywell MEMS Foundry Services team and continues to assist in guiding Honeywell MEMS strategy.

Chris earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of Missouri –Kansas City (1992) and an M.S. in Scientific Instrumentation (emphasis in Physics) from the State University of New York – Stony Brook (1995).

 

Scott Naugle, Vice President of Manufacturing, Akustica, Inc. – A Subsidiary of the Bosch Group

Scott Naugle has over 20 years experience in the microelectronics industry. Since Feburary 2006, Scott has led the manufacturing group at Akustica and has been responsible for production planning, test engineering, product and process engineering, yield management, package development and engineering, and internal operations. Prior to Akustica, Scott held product development and manufacturing positions at Harris, M/A-COM, and Anadigics where he worked with silicon and III-V semiconductor technologies that produced power, RF, and optoelectronic semiconductor components used in automotive, consumer wireless and fiber optic infrastructure applications.

Scott has a MS degree from the University of Cincinnati in Electrical Engineering where he specialized in photonics and optoelectronics under a NASA graduate fellowship from the Ohio Aerospace Institute.

 

Eric Pabo, Business development Manager for MEMS, EV Group

Eric Pabo is the business development manager for MEMS for EVGroup; previously he had been an applications engineer for bonding for EVGroup for 3.5 years. Prior to working for EVGroup he spent 5 years working on wafer level packaging and assembly processes for HP and Agilent Technologies. He has over 20 years experience in electronics manufacturing, is a professional engineer registered in the State of Colorado, is finishing his Six Sigma Black Belt Certification and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineer from Colorado State University.

 

Magnus Rimskog, Sales Director, North America, Silex Microsystems

Magnus Rimskog is currently based in Silex’ Bay Area office and responsible for Silex’ customer interface in North America and Japan. He relocated from the Swedish headquarter and Foundry facility to Boston in 2005 establishing Silex’ first US office. Magnus joined Silex Microsystems in 2002 to work in the customer interface and have taken part of building up the current capabilities of Silex now including a full 6 inch and also a separate 8 inch fab facility. Previously to joining Silex, Magnus spent six years with Optronic Consulting (Sweden) focusing on project management for development projects at Optronic's clients. Magnus graduated from the Lund Institute of Technology with a M.Sc. Physics.

Salah Uddin, Partner and Co-Founder, Nanoshift LLC

Salah Uddin is Partner and Co-Founder of Nanoshift LLC. Nanoshift is an Emerging Technology development company that provides design, development, prototyping and low volume production services for MEMS, Microfluidic, Nanotech, Cleantech and Semiconductor companies.
Prior to starting Nanoshift, Salah consulted for a number of high technology companies in the Silicon Valley, providing his expertise in process integration and fabrication. He played a major role in successfully developing groundbreaking flexible and inorganic nanotechnology architecture now being used in next generation energy and LED applications.

Salah has a principal role in branding and positioning Nanoshift as a leader in the fablite and fabless emerging technology development space- Nanoshift continues to experience strong growth and has served over 80 delighted companies worldwide. He advises a number of technology companies, providing his expertise for evaluation, integration and commercialization of next generation technologies.

Salah studied at the University of California Berkeley where he completed his coursework in Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis in Biochemistry. He also finished Business coursework at the Haas School of Business.
 

Ruta Venclovas, Consultant

Ruta Venclovas has 27 years of MEMS industry experience with a background which includes the design, manufacturing, and quality control of pressure sensor products for automotive applications. Her 24 years of service at Motorola's Automotive Division and 3 years employment at Continental Automotive Systems group has given her extensive experience with both suppliers and customers.

Ruta was responsible for the technical operations and quality control of the captive high volume MEMS production facility. She lead a team of process, design and quality professionals and was the manager responsible for selecting, transferring, and qualifying an outside MEMS foundry service for producing automotive grade quality sensors. Her extensive background in quality management, problem solving, product innovation, global manufacturing and program management has resulted in many product improvements, cost reductions, and satisfied customers.
Ruta holds a BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois.
 

Dr. Carolyn White, Associate, AM Fitzgerald & Associates

Carolyn D. White has a background in mechanics of materials and currently specializes in the design and fabrication of MEMS devices for a wide range of range of applications, which have included magnetic materials, microfluidics, solar, and infrared imaging. She also performs technology strategic analyses, including the evaluation of patent portfolios and acquisition targets, feasibility studies, and cost/performance analysis. She has been employed by Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and the National Institute of Standards and Technology and has numerous publications. Dr. White received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University and M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.