David has almost 25 years of leadership experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Pragmatic, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at Micron Technology, Inc. He also spent six years at Intel Corporation in various roles, including General Manager of the Programmable Solutions Group, where he led the multi-billion-dollar… Read More
CEO Interview: Dr. Meghali Chopra of Sandbox Semiconductor
Dr. Meghali Chopra is co-founder and CEO of SandBox Semiconductor. She is responsible for SandBox’s vision and strategy and oversees the development of SandBox’s software products and technologies. Dr. Chopra received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin where her research focused … Read More
CEO Interview: Dr. J Provine of Aligned Carbon
J Provine, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Aligned Carbon, a startup that has developed a breakthrough synthesis and purification technology for aligned, semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) at wafer scale. His team believes that Aligned Carbon is the crucial missing piece in an industry that has long been hopeful of –… Read More
Executive Interview: Tony Casassa, General Manager of METTLER TOLEDO THORNTON
Tony Casassa has served as the General Manager of METTLER TOLEDO THORNTON since 2015, after having joined the company in 2007 to lead the US Process Analytics business. Prior to spending the last 16 years with METTLER TOLEDO, Tony held various business leadership positions for 2 decades with Rohm and Haas Chemical. A common thread… Read More
CEO Interview: Venkata Simhadri of MosChip
Mr. Venkata Sudhakar Simhadri is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track-record in the semiconductor industry. He was the Founder, President & CEO of Gigacom Semiconductor LLC & Founder / Director of Gigacom India (Both the Companies acquired by MosChip) and the driving force behind establishing IP licensing and … Read More
CEO Interview: Pat Brockett of Celera
Pat Brockett is a veteran of the global semiconductor industry. He began his career in sales and marketing at Texas Instruments. After that, he was senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at National Semiconductor. Subsequently, he headed the analog division and is credited with turning it around.
Later, he was… Read More
CEO Interview: Islam Nashaat of Master Micro
Eng. Islam Nashaat received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2010 and 2017, respectively. He joined Si-Vision as an Analog Physical Design Engineer in 2010, where he initiated the company’s CAD team in 2013, and became CAD and Physical Design Team Lead in 2016 after the company’s flagship … Read More
CEO Interview: Sanjeev Kumar – Co-Founder & Mentor of Logic Fruit Technologies
Sanjeev is a renowned technopreneur in the semiconductor industry. With more than 20+ years of experience, he is known for his enormous resilience and deep tech knowledge that sets him apart from others in the industry.
Sanjeev started his career as a hardware designer and then forayed into the FPGA domain due to his love for configurable… Read More
CEO Interview: Stephen Rothrock of ATREG
Stephen Rothrock founded ATREG in 2000 to help global advanced technology companies divest and acquire infrastructure-rich manufacturing assets. Over the last 25 years, his firm has completed more than 100 transactions, representing over 40% of all global operational wafer fab sales in the semiconductor industry for operational,… Read More
CEO Interview: Dr. Tung-chieh Chen of Maxeda
Dr. Tung-chieh Chen has been serving as the CEO of Maxeda Technology since 2015. In 2021, at DAC, the largest EDA conference, Dr. Chen was honored with the Under-40 Innovators Award in recognition of his exceptional achievements and contributions to EDA development. He is the infrastructure designer of NTUplace, a circuit placer… Read More
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