19 GigOptix LLC Copyright - 2008 Experienced Leadership Team Experienced Leadership Team Julie Tipton, VP Marketing: More than 20 years of semiconductor industry experience. Before GigOptix held numerous management positions at NXP Semiconductors/Philips Semiconductors including GM for Mobile WLAN Product line, Head of Operations, Connectivity products, VP/GM Digital Video Interactive products. Marc Correa, VP Operations: More than 25 years experience in developing global manufacturing capabilities with a specialty in rapidly transitioning from low- volume to high-volume production. Formerly Director of Operations at Mistletoe Technologies, was responsible for global IC operations at Airgo Networks (acquired by Qualcomm). Vivek Rajgarhia, VP Global Sales: Over15 years experience in the opto-electronics industry. Vivek has held VP positions in Sales and Marketing at Dupont Photonics and OpNext Inc. Founded Trust Telecom in India launching two mobile handset brands. He was Director of Sales and Marketing for Lucent Technologies in Asia-Pacific Dr. Avi Katz, CEO/COB: More than 20 years experience leading public and private electronics manufacturers. CEO positions at Intransa and Equator Technologies. Held executive positions at Watkins- Johnson, ASTeX, and Symphony Services. 7 years in research at A&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J. BOD Member of several companies. Holds numerous U.S. and international patents. Andrea Betti-Berruto CTO: Founded iTerra Communications in 2000. More than 16 years of experience in the design of RF and microwave ICs and multi-chip modules. Before joining iTerra/ GigOptix, led the product development team of Fujitsu Compound Semiconductor for mm-wave high-power amplifiers. Author of several publications in technical journals. Peter Biere, CFO and GM GigOptix Bothell : Over 25 years of experience ranging from startups to high growth to mature organizations. 4 years CFO/GM position at Lumera Corporation; CEO/CFO of Entrées International; CFO of Locate Networks and Zones.com. BBA and MA in accounting from University of Iowa. Dr. Raluca Dinu VP Advanced Engineering: 7 years at Lumera rising to VP – Electro-Optics Business Unit. 4 years as Physics Engineer at National Institute (Physics) in Bucharest, Romania. She holds over 15 patents and has authored numerous technical papers. PhD in Physics from University of Bucharest. Dr. Jörg Wieland, VP GM GigOptix-Helix: More than 20 years in opto-electronics, founder and CEO of Helix AG, acquired by GigOptix LLC in January 2008 Also a founder of Albis Optoelectronics AG, a leading photo-detector maker. Prior to starting Helix, he was a research scientist at ETH Zürich. Jorg holds Dip.EE. and Doctor of Technical Science degrees from ETH. . |