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Corvallis, Oregon, Us

Amorphyx revolutionizes electronic device technology - sensors, diodes and transistors - by leveraging breakthroughs in high electric field-based thin film electronic devices enabled through the use of amorphous metals. The Company's initial product - a patented two-terminal thin film nonlinear device called the Amorphous Metal Nonlinear Resistor (AMNR) - utilizes existing flat-panel display backplane manufacturing equipment for smartphones, laptops, tablets, monitors and television displays.The Company extends the AMNR technology in creating the patented Amorphous Metal Hot Electron Transistor (AMHET). AMHET promises flexible display backplane processing, and holds the potential to replace semiconductor-based transistors in mmwave, RF, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits.In addition, Amorphyx integrates amorphous metal and high-k oxide dielectric materials into metal oxide semiconductor-based thin film transistors. The Amorphous Metal TFT (AMeTFT) redefines mobility and stability in thin film transistors. The Company is engaged with customers for improvements in metal oxide TFTs for premium-grade small-to-large-area LCD, OLED and microLED displays.At the Society for Information Display "Display Week" conference in May, 2018 Amorphyx demonstrated a 5" 85ppi 60 Hz LCD prototype designed and fabricated in collaboration with BOE, the world's largest display supplier. This prototype represents the first use of quantum tunneling electronic devices in displays for consumer electronics.Later in 2018, Amorphyx won Third Place in the Hangzhou (China) Overseas High-Level Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition from over 2000 entrants. Amorphyx is majority owner of an equity joint venture based in Hangzhou that collaborates with Zhejiang University to establish an R&D center based on Amorphyx technologies for the Chinese display industry.

ONAMI is Oregon’s first “signature research center” (SRC)—an academic, business and government collaboration to grow research volume and commercialization in the broad area of nano- and micro-scale science and engineering. ONAMI provides business development services for Oregon's research universities under the auspices of Business Oregon's Innovation Council. I have had the privilege of working with some of Oregon's most successful "hard technology" startups to date, including Craig Evans (CEO) and his wife Julia (CTO) at Energy Storage Systems (NYSE: GWH), Nick Day (CEO) at Diatomix (diatomixcorp.com), and Mark Ronay (CEO) at Liquid Wire (liquidwire.com).Current projects in development include MagWire (nickel-coated copper nanowire technology for high-performance transparent conductive films), NoMotus (a spring-based replacement for seismic buckling restraint braces in 1-5 story residential and commercial buildings), Phosio (metal oxide-based high refractive index optical film for AR/VR, automotive LIDAR and OLED smartphone applications), and Transformative Optics (a new approach to processing images particularly effective in low lighting, aimed at image recognition and high quality image processing applications).

Liquid Wire is a Portland State University spinout producing a unique eutectic metal gel which can be patterned into conductive traces that can stretch, bend or otherwise deform while providing pressure and strain feedback through linear changes in resistance. With room temperature processing and no loss of conductivity through fatigue, MetalGel™ is an ideal solution for wearable sensing, power and signal transmission. From silicone rubber, to paper to fabric, any material can be conductive and any strain can be detected using our materials and deposition techniques.The company has ongoing relationships with major brands in athletic apparel, medical devices, and industrial equipment and achieved initial revenues in 2018. In July 2020 Liquid Wire announced a $10M Series A round with healthcare ecosystem investor Deerfield Management - one of the largest Series A investments in hardware and materials science startups in Oregon in recent memory.

Vincio provides turnkey product marketing services - product strategy, competitive analysis, product promotion and customer development based upon our technical expertise. We tend to work with early-stage startups in preparing them for initial product rollouts, fundraising rounds and strategic partnerships.

Diatomix combines porous bio-mineralized silica with nanoparticles to produce a self-cleaning and antibacterial additive for residential, industrial and commercial paints, floor coatings, home cleaning products and air filters that improves indoor air quality through continuous decontamination of volatile organic compounds. The company is an early-stage spinout from Portland State University and has multiple product development relationships with leaders in the home coatings, air purifier filter and cleaners markets. It generated initial revenues in 2018 as a VOC-decomposing added feature to one of the floor coating and cleaner industry's top brands.Partner BONA released their first floor cleaner product incorporating Diatomix technology into the China retail market in early 2020. Diatomix is now focusing on incorporating its VOC-decomposing materials into stand-alone air purifiers and HVAC systems.

Andover, Ma, Us

SiGe was an analog/RF component supplier into consumer and commercial electronics markets. From near-failure in 2006 (losing $16M on $32M in revenue with $100M invested to date), the company became recognized as one of the fastest-growing RF semiconductor suppliers in North America and one of the premier privately-held semiconductor companies in the industry. SiGe registered with the SEC in July 2010 for an initial public offering scheduled for 1H11, but was sold to Skyworks Solutions in June 2011 for $250M including earnout - roughly 2.5x revenues and 35x net income.Responsible for creating and establishing corporate presence in financial industry, business and trade press. Lead on M&A activity, public relations, corporate branding and positioning. Key responsibilities on IPO.Responsible for expanding company's customer involvement from product sales to customer's development groups into executive-level strategic relationships with customers, product partners and channel partners.

Andover, Ma, Us

Responsible for return on investment from company's three product lines enabling wireless communications in key segments of the consumer electronics market. Define and manage execution of product line strategy, business strategy, tactical product marketing. Manage marketing communications; define product positioning, execute communications on corporate positioning. Define and manage product partnerships, product channel relationships.I was brought into the company to lead their unsuccessful effort to enter the mobile phone RF power amplifier market. It was immediately clear the company lacked the design resources to execute a mobile phone PA. Instead, I partnered with the GPS product line manager to rapidly generate $12M in bookings for the product line's flagship product, and formed a product relationship with Samsung Semiconductor for the new Personal Navigation Display market. These bookings were a key part of convincing the company's Board not to dissolve the company at the end of 2006. The Samsung relationship was key in bringing Samsung Ventures in as the lead investor in a $20M equity round valuing the company at $100M and recapping the equity structure so that employees and investors would benefit from the company's sale in 2011.

Xindium (Crystal Lake, IL and Westlake Village, CA) is a venture-funded fabless semiconductor company focused on improving the performance of mobile phones through the use of indium phosphide DHBT technology to manufacture higher performance RF power amplifiers which enable improvements in battery life and uplink data rate for next-generation EDGE and WCDMA networks. After the company failed in a next-generation optical communications market, I joined as CEO to redirect the technology development and business plan towards the mobile phone market.

Vincio provides strategic market and product planning services to wireless and RF semiconductor companies, focusing on early-stage startups, venture capital firms, as well as Fortune 500 companies looking to enter the RF wireless communications markets. Vincio's primary value is delivered from product concept through initial revenues, typically defining the market opportunity, leading product definition and execution, and performing business development with partners and customers.My primary projects during this period were with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (commercialization of a "stressy metal" MEMS technology for use in GSM mobile phones) and Nitronex (the first gallium nitride (GaN) commercialization in RF power transistors for cellular base stations, and the first GaN-on-silicon technology). Nitronex licensed the GaN-on-silicon technology to International Rectifier for high-power electronics applications. The company was sold to M/A-COM in 2014 and is now enabling 4G and 5G wireless networks worldwide.Other clients included Texas Pacific Group Ventures, KLM Technologies, Broadstorm (now Adaptix), Xindium, nBand, ParkerVision

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(Co-founder) Wireless semiconductor startup focused on improving battery life of mobile phones by increasing efficiency of RF power amplifier through varying the PA supply voltage to track the RF waveform. Tropian pioneered so-called "polar modulation" in GSM mobile phones, a precursor to today's "envelope tracking" techniques for improving cellular PA performance. Tropian became recognized across the mobile phone industry for its pioneering efforts in digital polar modulation techniques. The company was initially funded by a syndicate of leading Silicon Valley venture capital funds (Crosspoint, Convergence Partners, InveStar) in 1998. Recognized by Red Herring in as one of its Top 100 Companies in 1999 and by Penton Publishing with a Comet Award in 2000. Tropian was acquired by Matsushita Electrical Corp (Panasonic Semiconductor) in 2006.

SEIKO Communications Systems was the evolution of AT&E Laboratories, founded in 1989 to commercialize a wristwatch pager and international paging system using the subcarrier region of broadcast FM radio signals. At its height, the SEIKO Messagewatch and service was a precursor to today's digital mobile services - text messaging, sports and entertainment info, traffic information and more, customized by users on their Messagewatch web page. After operating across the US as well as countries in Europe and APAC, the service shut down on the last day of 1999, overcome by GSM mobile phones. Tributes to the Messagewatch remain on the internet - such as the one below

Wilmington, Ma, Us

Beaverton, Or, Us

Helped lead Tek Microelectronics from customer-owned tooling IC foundry business model to application-specific standard products. I conceived and built the Wireless Product Line on the concept of highly integrated RF physical layer systems for three rapidly emerging consumer electronics markets - GSM mobile phones, direct broadcast satellite TV set-top boxes, and 900 MHz cordless telephones. Business was sold to Maxim Integrated Products in 1994. DBS TV IC became one of the most successful products in Maxim's history.

Supplier of turnkey 0.5-40 GHz ELINT systems for US Defense and intelligence communities. Designed RF synthesizers and front ends focused in 0.5-18 GHz range.Condor filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and was acquired by EDO Corp. in 2002.

Digital RF Solutions was the first digital (phase accumulator and DAC) approach to synthesizing RF signals. Primary uses of the technology were the first MRI machines, the first version of the AEGIS radar system for US Navy, and high-performance RF and video signal generators.The company was merged with a software group calling themselves Proxim (proxim.com) in 1990, which created one of the pioneers in WiFi equipment and technical standards.

ARGOSystems was the premier US developer and manufacturer of shipboard, man-portable and remotely-located electronic intelligence gathering equipment for the US military and intelligence communities. After IPO in 1984, ARGOSystem was acquired by Boeing Electronics in 1987 for 2x its stock market valuation.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

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