M2M Forum® 2014
 
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Bill Bader
Chief Executive Officer
iNEMI

Bill is the CEO of the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative, iNEMI. Bill took this role in August of 2009 and he has been driving excellent growth in the iNEMI membership and in the quantity and quality of collaborative R&D projects that are executed by the iNEMI membership. INEMI has seen a growth in membership of 75% overall during that time period and has grown the number or Research institute or University members by 160% during Bill’s Leadership with an increased focus on collaborative research.


He came to iNEMI after a 26 year career at Intel Corporation. Bill retired from Intel in 2005.


At Intel Bill served as the General Manager (GM) of Intel’s Systems Manufacturing and Technology Development group (SMTD) that provided design, and manufacturing services for new board and system products for all the business units within Intel, and was accountable for Technology Development and Path Finding in support of board and system manufacturing. Bill managed up to 1100 employees at multiple sites in the US, Malaysia, and China. His group developed key assembly and test technologies in support of CPU and Chipset launches and enabled high volume launch in multiple outsourced factories in SE Asia. Bill’s organization(s) also won two Intel Quality Awards under his leadership for excellence in support of Intel’s values.


Bill has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
 
Craig Core
VP Operations
Qualtré, Inc.
Craig Core joined Qualtré in 2009 as the company’s Vice President of Operations with over twenty years of MEMS and related semiconductor manufacturing experience.  From 1986 to 2007, Craig ran the MEMS Wafer Fab Organization at Analog Devices, Inc. with responsibility for both Production and Wafer Level Process Development activities.  He served as Evergreen Solar's Plant Manager from 2007 to 2009 with responsibility for bringing the solar panel facility’s wafer, cell and panel fabrication on-line from its initial ground-breaking  to mass production.  Craig has over twenty years of diverse MEMS management, development, and operational experience for enterprises ranging from pre-revenue inertial MEMS sensor organizations to high-volume manufacturing at world-class MEMS suppliers. Craig received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and his Masters in Business Administration from Northeastern University.
 
David Dornfeld Ph.D.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
David Dornfeld received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 in the area of Production Engineering. His Ph.D. thesis concerned the study of the fundamentals of abrasive machining. He joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1977 and is presently Professor of Manufacturing Engineering. He holds the Will C. Hall Family Chair in Engineering and currently serves as the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He served as Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Engineering. He holds an appointment as Special Division Deputy, Engineering Division, Ernst Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is past-Director of the Engineering Systems Research Center in the College of Engineering. In 1982 and 1992 he was Directeur de Recherche Associe, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, Paris and Invited Professor, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers- ENSAM, Paris, respectively.

Dr. Dornfeld leads the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability - LMAS (lmas.berkeley.edu) with research activities in several fields of manufacturing engineering - green and sustainable manufacturing; monitoring and analysis of manufacturing processes (e. g. cleanability, burr formation and micromachining); precision manufacturing; and intelligent sensors and machine interoperability for process monitoring and optimization. He has published over 400 papers in these fields, authored three research monographs, contributed chapters to several books and has seven patents based on his research work. He is a consultant on green and sustainable manufacturing, mechanical design, manufacturing productivity, sensors, automation and process modeling and the associated intellectual property issues. He writes a blog on green manufacturing at http://green-manufacturing.blogspot.com/.

Professor Dornfeld is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), contributing to the technical programs and journals of the society. He is the past Technical Editor, Trans. ASME, Journal of Engineering for Industry. He was the recipient of the ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award in 1986 and 2010 ASME William T. Ennor Award. He received the AMT Charles F. Carter Advancing Manufacturing Award in 2012. He is a Fellow and past-Director of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and a recipient of the 2004 SME Fredrick W. Taylor Research Medal and 2013 NAMRI/SME Outstanding Lifetime Service Award, member of Japan Society of Precision Engineering (JSPE) and recipient of the 2005 JSPE Takagi Prize, Fellow, School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan, member of American Society of Precision Engineering (ASPE), and Materials Research Society (MRS). He is past-President of the Board of Directors and a member of the Scientific Committee, North American Manufacturing Research Institute (NAMRI/SME). He is a Fellow of the CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering) and Chair of the Working Group on Energy Efficiency and Resource Effectiveness.
 
Ian Ferguson
VP of Segment Marketing
ARM
Ian Ferguson was appointed vice president of segment marketing in January 2013.

Ian joined ARM in 2007 as director of enterprise and embedded solutions. Within this role, Ian led a group chartered with driving ARM technology into embedded applications such as automotive, smart grid and networking applications. He was previously vice president of the server system and ecosystem and led ARM’s push into energy-efficient data centers.

Prior to ARM, Ian was vice president of marketing for Enigma Semiconductor and QuickLogic. He has also worked as European marketing manager for IDT and as technical marketing engineer for Motorola.

Ian has a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Loughborough University.
 
Alissa M. Fitzgerald Ph.D.
Founder and Managing Member
A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC
Dr. Fitzgerald founded the company in 2003. She has over 18 years of engineering experience in MEMS design, fabrication and product development. Having developed more than a dozen distinct MEMS devices, such as piezoresistive cantilevers, ultrasound transducers, and infrared imagers, she advises clients on the entire technology development cycle, from business and IP strategy, to initial design and prototyping, to foundry transfer. 

She is a recognized expert on reliability of brittle materials. Prior to founding AMFitzgerald, Dr. Fitzgerald worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Sigpro, and Sensant Corporation, now part of Siemens. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT and her doctorate from Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Fitzgerald has numerous journal publications, holds seven patents, and is a frequent lecturer at UC Berkeley, Stanford University and professional meetings. She currently serves on the Governing Council of the MEMS Industry Group. In 2013, she was inducted into the MEMS Industry Group's Hall of Fame.
 
Bill Flounders
Executive Director
Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory
Bill Flounders was born in Delaware County, PA. He received the B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1985 and the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. Bill completed a majority of his graduate research in the U.C. Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory. His dissertation focused upon fabrication of exposed gate field effect transistors for sensor applications and in-situ monitoring of plasma induced radiation damage to gate insulators. Bill completed post-doctoral research in immunology at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Western Regional Research Center in Albany, CA. His research involved immobilization, stabilization and patterning of proteins for biosensor development. From 1996 to 2001, Bill was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA and worked in the Chemical and Radiation Detection Laboratory. His research was supported by the DOE Office of Nonproliferation Research and Engineering (NN20) and focused upon sensors for detection of chemical and biological warfare agents. Bill was responsible for integration of multiple biological receptors with a single microelectronic transduction platform and adaptation of microelectronic fabrication tools to biochemical processing to enable wafer scale biosensor fabrication. Bill lives in Berkeley with his two children. He is active in the Berkeley Public Schools Excellence Project (BSEP) and enjoys teaching and sailing at The Presidio Yacht Club.
 
Mike Gaitan
Leader, Acoustics and Vibration Project
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Michael Gaitan leads the Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division’s Acoustics and Vibration Project. The Project’s mission is to advance measurement science, provide calibration services, and lead international standards development for audio, ultrasonic, and inertial measurements. His external activities include supporting standards development and technology roadmapping for the rapidly growing “More than Moore” segment of the semiconductor electronics industry and Chairs the iNEMI and ITRS Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Technology Working Groups, which publishes the MEMS Chapter of the iNEMI and ITRS Roadmaps. He serves as Secretary of the newly established IEEE P2700 Standards Working Group on MEMS Device Testing.
 
John Huggins
Executive Director
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
John has been the BSAC executive director since 2002. MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota (1973); Stanford High Tech Executive Institute. Founder & CEO of TDK Systems Inc; VP, Advanced Development, Silicon Systems Inc; Telecom development manager, Intel Corporation. Guest Editor and Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits; Technical Program Committee, International Solid State Circuits Conference 5 years. Chair, PCMCIA communications standards subcommittee. Five U.S. Patents. Research and professional interests: mixed signal CMOS integrated circuits, electronic communications, and telecommunications high tech business development.
 
Keith M. Jackson Ph.D.
Senior MEMS Engineer
A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC
Keith Jackson is a Senior MEMS Engineer with A. M. Fitzgerald & Associates. He has been performing design, process development, and testing in the fields of MEMS and Semiconductors for more than 15 years. His technical expertise lies in creating novel process-integration solutions that enable both prototypes and transfer to manufacturing. His project management expertise in product development addresses the transition from development to manufacturing. Dr. Jackson has previously worked on process development for GE-Novasensor and Intel, and has two patents. He received his B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT.
 
Karen Lightman
Executive Director
MEMS Industry Group
Karen Lightman became MEMS Industry Group (MIG) managing director in 2007 and promoted to Executive Director in 2013. Formerly director of special projects, Karen played a pivotal role in launching MIG in January 2001. Karen is active on the worldwide MEMS conference circuit as a keynote speaker and panelist promoting MIG’s role as the leading trade association advancing MEMS across global markets. Karen manages the operations of MIG; spearheads strategic growth; and oversees sales, public relations, marketing and outreach. Karen plays a critical role in creating the content for all MIG and MIG-partner conferences, events and programming. She is instrumental in establishing and maintaining partnerships with other international organizations to advance the MEMS industry.

Karen joined MIG from Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Economic Development where she was senior policy analyst. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Karen was senior associate at Cleveland Tomorrow, a public-private partnership, and before that, she was a program associate with the Ford Foundation.

Karen has a BA from the University of Vermont (UVM) and a MS in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Karen is a board member and chair of the Board Development Committee of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh and in 2012 received the NCJW National Award for Emerging Leaders. Karen is secretary for her UVM alumni class; mentor at UVM’s Honors College; and volunteers at the Environmental Charter School at Frick Park. Karen and her family reside in Pittsburgh, PA.
 
Michel Maharbiz
Co-Director
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. His current research centers on building micro/nano interfaces to cells and organisms and exploring bio-derived fabrication methods. His research group is also known for developing the world’s first remotely radio-controlled cyborg beetles; this was named one of the top 10 emerging technologies of 2009 by MIT’s Technology Review (TR10) and was among Time magazine’s Top 50 Inventions of 2009. His long-term goal is understanding developmental mechanisms as a way to engineer and fabricate machines. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from UC Berkeley for his work on microbioreactor systems, which led to the foundation of Microreactor Technologies Inc., which was recently acquired by Pall Corporation. He has been a GE Scholar and an Intel IMAP Fellow.
 
Valerie Marty
MEMS Integration Engineer
Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)
Valerie Marty has been with HP since 1994, where she has contributed to the R&D, development, manufacturing and transfer of technologies for CMOS and MEMS devices. Valerie received her MS in Physical Chemistry and began her engineering career as a Manufacturing Process Engineer for the Integrated Circuits Business Division at HP, gaining experience in thin film processing and process module integration. While transitioning focus from CMOS to MEMS devices, she made contributions in the areas of process development, equipment strategy and integration to support commercialization and production ramps for MEMS enabled inkjet technology. Currently her focus is to advance the integration of MEMS devices within printing and throughout HP.

Valerie is an active member of the MIG Technology Advisory Committee. Utilizing her experience with technology and product development, Valerie partnered with fellow MIG members to create the MIG Technology Development Process (TDP) Template.
 
Rob O’Reilly (Moderator)
Senior Technical Staff
MEMS Sensor and Technology Group, Analog Devices, Inc.
Rob O’Reilly began his MEMS career at Analog Devices in 1993. Previously Rob has led the MEMS Advanced Test, Test, Trim/Probe and Characterization groups. Today he is focused on driving the commercialization of MEMS in a wide variety of applications covering the consumer, automotive and industrial markets. Rob holds several patents in MEMS test technologies for both accelerometer and gyro test platforms. In 2012 Rob was inducted into the MEMS Industry Group’s Hall of Fame and continues to serve on their Technical Advisory and Test Standards Subcommittees. 
 
Dirk Ortloff
Product Manager XperiDesk
camLINE GmbH
Dr. Dirk Ortloff works as a Product Manager XperDesk for the camLine GmbH in Petershausen, close to Munich, Germany. The independent software vendor provides solutions in the area of production and development automation, data management, integration and statistical assessment (MES, SPC, OEE, PDES) for electronics, semiconductor and photovoltaics industries. Previously he founded Process Relations GmbH where the original XperiDesk product had been developed. Dirk Ortloff is a specialist in Innovation Management Methodologies and supporting software systems. In 1995 he received his diploma in computer science from the University of Dortmund and undertook, next to his managerial engagements, a doctorate in 2006.
 
Richie Payne
Principal Consultant
MEMS Strategies, LLC
Richie Payne is a consultant, helping companies turn MEMS ideas into commercial realities. Richie spent the previous 8,5 years at the Andover, MA MEMS display startup, Pixtronix, which was purchased in November of 2011 by Qualcomm, where he was VP Engineering. Pixtronix was the 4th in a series of startups (Polychromix, OMM, and Cyrano Sciences in reverse chronological order) all of which were MEMS or MEMS enabled systems endeavors. He began an involvement in MEMS around 1987 creating the organization that brought out the ADXL50 monolithic accelerometer. 

He was involved in most aspects of semiconductor product design, development and manufacturing between his first 7 years at ADI and his 10 years prior to that at Bell Laboratories where he co-invented the Twin-Tub CMOS process. He has numerous papers, patents, a wife of 48 years, 3 children and 5 grandchildren.
 
Koukou Suu Ph.D.
General Manager
ULVAC, Inc.

Dr. Koukou Suu graduated and received Ph.D degree in Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan in 1988 and 1993 respectively. He joined ULVAC, Inc. in 1993 and since then has been engaging with developments of numerous semiconductor and electronics technologies including emerging non-volatile memories, high-K capacitors, LED, power devices as well as thin-film Li-battery manufacturing technologies. Since 2008, he has been General Manager of Institute of Semiconductor and Electronics Technologies of the company.

 
Babak Taheri
Freescale Semiconductor
In May 2013, Babak Taheri joined Freescale as the Vice President and General Manager of the Sensor Solutions Division.

Prior to Freescale, Dr. Taheri was the vice president of non-volatile products (NVP) at Cypress Semiconductor where he acquired Ramtorn, and ranked No.1 at Cypress BU for gross margin. Dr. Taheri has held other positions at Cypress including VP of corporate IP, whose team headed up development of Cypress’s first multi-touch sensing technology. He also established over 12 centers of excellence worldwide managing design IP for the corporation. 

Prior to re-joining Cypress, Dr. Taheri was vice president of engineering at InvenSense Inc., a fabless MEMS semiconductor company focusing on high-volume product delivery to consumer markets. 

Dr. Taheri has more than 28 years of semiconductor industry experience including founding Integrated Biosensing Technologies, a sensor biomedical corporation. He also has held key positions at Intel, SRI International, Redwood Microsystems, and Apple. 

Dr. Taheri holds a doctorate degree in electrical engineering & Neurosciences from the University of California at Davis, and more than 21 issued U.S. patents.
 
Jason Tauscher
Director of MEMS Development
Microvision
Jason Tauscher is Director of MEMS development at Microvision. This team is responsible for all aspects of productizing MEMS solutions from design through prototype fabrication and validation. Utilizing his background in Chemical engineering, Jason started work in the MEMS field developing electrochemical process solutions in support of precision low cost accelerometers. Including 13 years of experience with scanning MEMS mirrors at Microvision, Jason's experience encompasses more than 20 years experience in MEMS Process Development and Design. Jason's personal focus in recent years has been on the challenges of technology transfer and execution of a volume solution with Microvision's external MEMS foundry partners. Since 2001, Jason has reviewed or interacted with many of the current and former players in the MEMS foundry business and has witnessed firsthand the advancements in equipment technology and process stability that have turned the challenge of tech transfer from one of shopping for someone who has the basic capability of replicating prototype results to one of comparing the relative strengths of the many viable foundry candidates.
 
Stephen Walley
Director, Sensors
Intel Architecture Group, Intel Corporation
Stephen Whalley is the Cross Platform Technology Director for Sensors in the Intel Architecture Group at Intel. In this capacity, Steve is responsible for sensor technology strategy definition, implementation consistency, and maximizing hardware and software reuse across Smartphone, Tablet and PC platforms. Previously, Whalley has managed numerous PC and server platform technology enabling activities and several industry initiatives while at Intel. He was also a founding contributor to the USB program and Chairman of the USB Implementers Forum from 1996 to 1998. Moving to Chandler, Arizona in 1990 from the United Kingdom, Whalley has managed multiple product development and marketing programs in various areas of Intel. He joined Intel in February 1988, working as a European Marketing Manager in Swindon, England. Whalley earned a Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, graduating with Honors from the University of Salford, England. He also received a Masters Degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (‘Thunderbird’), Arizona.