SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Policy Associate
Alex Gordon is a policy associate at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where he supports SIA's government affairs team, focusing on Federal public policy.
Prior to joining SIA, Alex worked as a congressional intern in the U.S. House of Representatives and as a research assistant at the Yale School of Management.
Alex graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science and a certificate in Education Studies.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President & CEO / Qualcomm Incorporated
- President and Chief Executive Officer of Qualcomm Incorporated
Cristiano Amon is president and chief executive officer of Qualcomm Incorporated, and also serves on the Company's board of directors. Amon assumed the role of CEO on June 30, 2021.
Amon began his Qualcomm career in 1995 as an engineer, and during his tenure, has helped shape the strategic direction for the Company in several leadership roles. Prior to becoming CEO, Amon served as president of Qualcomm. In that role, he steered development of a leading and differentiated product roadmap, spearheaded Qualcomm's 5G strategy - as well as its acceleration and global roll out - and drove the expansion and diversification of the business to serve multiple industries. Additionally, he has overseen the successful execution of M&A to augment Qualcomm's capabilities and accelerate growth in key areas, including RF Front End, Connectivity and Networking.
Previously, Amon led Qualcomm's semiconductor business as president of QCT. He also held several technical and business leadership positions, which included having overall responsibility for Snapdragon® platforms.
Prior to Qualcomm, Amon served as chief technical officer for Vésper, a wireless operator in Brazil, and held leadership positions at NEC, Ericsson and Velocom.
Amon holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate from UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. He is the Co-Chair of the Council for IoT at the World Economic Forum's Center for 4th Industrial Revolution.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director of Communications at SIA
- Senior Director, Communications
Dan Rosso is senior director of communications at SIA, where he develops and implements the association's communications strategies through targeted initiatives, events, and materials. Dan also serves as SIA's primary media contact and manages the association's website, blog and social media content. Before joining SIA in 2012, Dan worked for 5 years on the staff of Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), where he handled science, technology and energy issues and served as the congressman's executive editor and speechwriter. Dan has also worked on the staffs of Governor Bob Ehrlich (R-MD) and Congressman George Nethercutt (R-WA). He received his B.A. in Communications from the University of Maryland.
Dan enjoys traveling, playing poker, and rooting for his beloved Buffalo Bills and Maryland Terrapins.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- CEO / Western Digital
Prior to joining Western Digital, Goeckeler was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Networking and Security Business, a $34 billion global technology franchise. A 19-year Cisco veteran, he led a team of more than 25,000 engineers and oversaw Cisco's networking and security strategy and market acceleration, including development operations for the company's expansive technology portfolio and strategic acquisitions.
Previously, Goeckeler oversaw Cisco's Security Business and was instrumental in defining Cisco's threat-centric security strategy, transitioning the business to a software and recurring revenue-based model, and returning the business to share-gaining growth. Under his leadership, the Security Group also acquired and successfully integrated multiple companies, solidifying Cisco's place as the largest IT Security vendor in the industry.
Goeckeler holds bachelor's degrees in computer science and mathematics from the University of Missouri at Columbia, a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a master's degree in business administration from both Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley.
Goeckeler is widely recognized for his leadership and operational excellence. In 2012, he received Frost and Sullivan's Excellence Award in Engineering Operations.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Government Affairs
- Vice President of Government Affairs at SIA
David Isaacs is vice president of government affairs at SIA, where he is responsible for all aspects of the association's work related to government policy and advocacy before the U.S. Congress, the Executive Branch, and international organizations.
Before joining SIA, David was senior vice president, government relations of Solazyme Inc., a leading renewable energy startup based in South San Francisco, California. In that capacity he was responsible for securing government support to advance Solazyme's commercialization and research objectives. He previously served as director, government affairs for Hewlett-Packard Company, where he led the D.C. office and directed a global team on HP's technology, environmental, energy policy, and other priority policy matters. He was an associate at the law firm of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. in Washington, D.C., and started his career as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.
David is a graduate of Tufts University, and received a law degree at Columbia University. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C. He is admitted to the bar in New York and the District of Columbia.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Senior Vice President
- Member of the National Science Board
- Senior Vice President & Director of Research / IBM Corporation
Dr. Gil leads the technology roadmap and the technical community of IBM, directing innovation strategies in areas including hybrid cloud, AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, and exploratory science. Dr. Gil is responsible for IBM Research, one of the world's largest and most influential corporate research labs, with over 3,000 researchers. He is the 12th Director in its 76-year history. He is also responsible for IBM's intellectual property strategy and business.
Dr. Gil is a globally recognized leader of the quantum computing industry. Under his leadership, IBM was the first company in the world to build programmable quantum computers and make them universally available through the cloud.
An advocate of collaborative research models, Dr. Gil co-chairs the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, which advances fundamental AI research to the broad benefit of industry and society. He also co-chairs the COVID-19 High-Performance Computing Consortium, which provides access to the world's most powerful high-performance computing resources in support of COVID-19 research.
Dr. Gil is a member of the National Science Board (NSB), the governing body of the National Science Foundation (NSF), serves on the President's Research Council of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), and the MIT School of Engineering Dean's Advisory Council.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- AMD 's President and Chief Executive Officer
- President & CEO / AMD, Inc.
Dr. Lisa Su is AMD's president and chief executive officer and also serves on the company's board of directors. Previously, she was chief operating officer responsible for integrating AMD's business units, sales, global operations, and infrastructure enablement teams into a single market-facing organization responsible for all aspects of product strategy and execution. Dr. Su joined AMD in January 2012 as senior vice president and general manager, global business units, and was responsible for driving end-to-end business execution of AMD's products and solutions.
Prior to joining AMD, Dr. Su served as senior vice president and general manager, Networking and Multimedia at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., and was responsible for global strategy, marketing, and engineering for the company's embedded communications and applications processor business. Dr. Su joined Freescale in 2007 as chief technology officer, where she led the company's technology roadmap and research and development efforts.
Dr. Su spent the previous 13 years at IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions, including vice president of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center, responsible for the strategic direction of IBM's silicon technologies, joint development alliances, and semiconductor R&D operations. Prior to IBM, she was a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments in the Semiconductor Process and Device Center (SPDC).
Dr. Su has bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has published more than 40 technical articles and was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) in 2009. Dr. Su was named "2014 Executive of the Year" at the EETimes, and EDN 2014 ACE Awards, and was honored in MIT Technology Review's Top 100 Young Innovators in 2002. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Analog Devices.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chief Executive Officer of GLOBALFOUNDRIES
- President & CEO / GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Inc.
Dr. Thomas Caulfield is the chief executive officer of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, effective March 9, 2018. Prior to being named CEO, Tom was senior vice president and general manager of the company's latest leading-edge 300mm semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility (Fab 8), located in Saratoga County, NY. Caulfield, who joined the company in May 2014, leads the operations, expansion and ramp of semiconductor manufacturing production at Fab 8, where GLOBALFOUNDRIES supports customers on the world's most advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology platforms including 28 nanometer (nm), 20nm, and 14nm.
Caulfield brings a track record of results through an extensive career spanning engineering, management and global operational leadership with leading technology companies. Most recently, Caulfield served as president and chief operations officer (COO) at Soraa, the world's leading developer of GaN on GaNTM (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) solid-state lighting technology. Prior to Soraa, Caulfield served as president and COO of Ausra, a leading provider of large-scale concentrated solar power solutions for electricity generation and industrial steam production. Before that, Caulfield served as executive vice president of sales, marketing and customer service at Novellus Systems, Inc.
Prior to that, Caulfield spent 17 years at IBM in a variety of senior leadership roles, ultimately serving as vice president of 300mm semiconductor operations for IBM's Microelectronics Division, leading its state-of-the-art wafer fabrication operations in East Fishkill, NY.
Job Titles:
- Director of Technology Policy
Erik Hadland is the Director of Technology Policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where he is responsible for the association's research, development, and technology activities as well as its education and workforce development efforts. In this role, he works with the White House, Federal agencies, and Congress to inform policymakers about the needs and functions of the diverse segments of the semiconductor industry.
Prior to SIA, Erik was a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he served as Advisor to the Director of the Office of Science-the Nation's largest supporter of fundamental physical science research and stewarding office of 10 of the Department's National Laboratories. In this capacity, Erik project managed briefings to the Congress on critical and emergent technologies, advised on matters of place-based innovation and technology transfer, and co-facilitated the Department's Microelectronics Working Group. Prior to the DOE, Erik was a Senior Logic Technology Development Engineer at Intel, piloting first-of-a-kind annealing modules and processing conditions for Intel's next generation logic products.
Erik earned his PhD in Solid State Chemistry from the University of Oregon, where he studied novel synthesis schemes for metastable 2D semiconductor compounds.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President and Chief Executive Officer / Microchip Technology Inc.
- President and Chief Executive Officer of Microchip Technology
Ganesh Moorthy was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of Microchip Technology in March 2021 and was also appointed to Microchip's Board of Directors in January 2021. He served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Microchip since February 2016, Chief Operating Officer since June 2009 and as Executive Vice President from October 2006 to May 2009. Earlier, Mr. Moorthy was Vice President with responsibility for several of Microchip's business units. Prior to joining Microchip in 2001, he held successive engineering and executive leadership roles at Intel over a period of 19 years.
Mr. Moorthy serves on the Board of Directors of Rogers Corp., a global leader in engineered materials to power, protect, and connect our world. Mr. Moorthy holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in marketing from National University in Sacramento, Calif.; a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington; and a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Bombay.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
- Director of on Semiconductor Corporation
Hassane El-Khoury serves as a Director of ON Semiconductor Corporation and is President and Chief Executive Officer of ON Semiconductor and Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC since December 2020.
Hassane El-Khoury is a seasoned professional with over twenty years of experience in the technology sector. His career has fostered a deep understanding of customer and design requirements in the automotive and industrial markets, as well as a systems-level understanding to form integrated customer solutions and business strategy to drive results.
Prior to joining ON Semiconductor, El-Khoury served most recently as president, chief executive officer and member of the board of directors at Cypress Semiconductor until its sale to Infineon in April 2020.
Under El-Khoury's leadership, Cypress underwent a significant transformation from a founder-led semiconductor company to a cutting-edge organization that broke down barriers and embraced customer and industry problems instead of running away from them. Cypress 3.0, the foundation of El-Khoury's strategy, not only redirected the company to target markets growing faster than the semiconductor market but embraced innovation from within while empowering his global team to think beyond current limits and challenge the status quo. Within the first two years of El-Khoury's tenure, his strategy enabled the company to reach all-time high records for stock price, revenue and cash flow.
He held various roles spanning business unit management, product development, applications engineering and business development during his thirteen years at Cypress.
Mr. El-Khoury began his career at Continental Automotive Systems as a senior design engineer. After immigrating to the United States from Lebanon at the age of 17, El-Khoury obtained a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Lawrence Technological University and master's in engineering management from Oakland University. He was a 2018 recipient of Silicon Valley's 40 under 40 and is currently a member of the board of directors at KeraCel.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Global Policy Associate
Jen Park is a global policy associate at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where she assists the global policy team's efforts in international trade, emerging markets, global supply chains, and foreign economic policy. Prior to joining SIA in 2023, she was an Analyst at Beacon Global Strategies where she supported political risk analysis. She also worked at a venture capital firm in Korea and at KPMG.
Job Titles:
- Director of Global Policy
- Director of Global Policy at SIA
Jennifer Meng is director of global policy at SIA, offering direct support for SIA's international trade and global policy priorities, with a focus on China policy and WTO priorities. Jennifer joined SIA in 2018. Jennifer leads SIA in the World Semiconductor Council, a cooperative global body dedicated to promoting a free, open, and globally competitive trading environment for semiconductor products. Her work also entails promoting US semiconductor industry priorities in the WTO, including the WTO Information Technology Agreement and the E-Commerce Initiative. She works closely with SIA member companies, the U.S. administration, domestic and international companies and business associations, and foreign government officials. Jennifer has prior experience working for the high-tech industry, including positions at the Albright Stonebridge Group, Eurasia Group, and the US Chamber of Commerce. She has a B.A. in political science and economics from the University of Toronto, and an M.A. in Asian Studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She grew up in China and Canada and is fluent in Mandarin. She lives with her two dogs in Washington, D.C.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
- Lattice Semiconductor 's President and Chief Executive Officer
Jim Anderson is Lattice Semiconductor's President and Chief Executive Officer and serves on the company's Board of Directors. He joined Lattice in September 2018 and focused the company on its mission as the leader in low power programmable solutions. Since then, the company accelerated its cadence of innovative product introductions and achieved record growth and profitability.
Prior to joining Lattice, Jim served as the senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Computing and Graphics business group, where he was responsible for global sales, marketing, and engineering. Prior to AMD, Jim held a broad range of leadership positions spanning general management, engineering, sales, marketing, and corporate strategy at companies including Intel, Broadcom (formerly Avago Technologies), and LSI Corporation.
Jim serves on the Board of Directors of Entegris, a leading supplier of advanced materials and process solutions for the semiconductor and other high-technology industries. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the MIT Sloan Americas Executive Board, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board at Purdue University, and the Dean's Advisory Board for the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He was previously a member of the Board of Directors of Sierra Wireless, a leader in edge-to-cloud solutions.
Jim holds an MBA and Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Global Policy
Jimmy Goodrich joined SIA in 2015 and is vice president for global policy. In this role, Jimmy leads SIA's global policy team and directs SIA's international competitiveness, trade, export control, supply chain, global market research, and China policy agenda.
Jimmy has a diverse background in international technology trade, supply-chain, and security issues spanning a wide range of geographies. Previously he was director of China policy at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) in Washington D.C. Before moving to Washington D.C. in 2012, Jimmy spent a total of seven years working in the tech sector in China, including for Cisco Systems, APCO Worldwide, and USITO.
Jimmy has a bachelor's degree in comparative politics and East Asian studies from Ohio University. He is professionally fluent in Mandarin and serves on the Executive Committee for Beijing-based United States Information Technology Office (USITO), representing SIA in his capacity and on the Board of Directors of the American Mandarin Society, which promotes mandarin-language study for young Americans.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
John Forsyth became chief executive officer in January 2021. Forsyth, who was named president of Cirrus Logic in January 2020, joined Cirrus Logic in 2014 through the acquisition of Wolfson Microelectronics. Previously, Forsyth served as chief strategy officer, responsible for driving Cirrus Logic's product strategy, as well as vice president of Marketing, responsible for building and leading Cirrus Logic's team focusing on voice biometrics. Forsyth began his career working in handheld device development for Psion in London and has more than 20 years' experience in embedded technology. Prior to joining Wolfson in 2012, Forsyth had led product development and strategy in several technology companies, including serving as chief technical officer of the Symbian Foundation and as vice president of strategy at Symbian Software.
Forsyth graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1995.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
John Neuffer is President and CEO of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) where he's responsible for setting and leading the association's public policy agenda and serving as the primary advocate for maintaining U.S. leadership in semiconductor design, manufacturing, and research.
John Neuffer is President and CEO of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), which has been the voice of the chip industry for over four decades. He has been at the nexus of technology, public policy, and trade for most of his career. Since joining SIA in 2015, John has led the association's policy advocacy in Washington and capitals around the world to foster growth and innovation in semiconductor design, manufacturing, and research. John also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, the world's leading non-profit industry-government-academia microelectronics research consortium.
Prior to joining SIA, John served as Senior Vice President for Global Policy at the Information Technology Industry Council, where he led a global team to expand market access opportunities for member companies around the world. He directed all global government relations in trade, cybersecurity, standards, regulatory, Internet governance, and privacy.
Previously, John served for over seven years at the Office of United States Trade Representative (USTR) in Washington, DC: two years as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Affairs, preceded by over five years as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan.
Prior to his tenure with USTR, John was a Senior Research Fellow and Political Analyst with the Mitsui Kaijyo Research Institute in Tokyo for nine years. As a leading commentator on Japanese politics and policy at the institute, he published a widely read newsletter and wrote regular commentary for the Asian Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com and Newsweek Japan. All told, John lived in Japan 11 years. He is a native of Montana and Washington State.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Executive Assistant to the President
- Office Manager
- Executive Assistant to the President and CEO and Office Manager at SIA
Latoya Arnold is the executive assistant to the president and CEO and office manager at SIA. She is responsible for managing office operations, finance, and scheduling. As the liaison to the executive assistants of SIA board members, she is responsible for providing detailed information to board assistants and maintaining relationships with external stakeholders. She works closely with the CFO. Latoya has over 20 years of experience in the administrative field, including nine years at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as well as significant experience in the non-profit and private sectors.
Latoya enjoys her family, writing, social engagement, and community work, and she does it all with joy.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
- President & CEO / Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Liam K. Griffin, 52, is president and chief executive officer and a director of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. Prior to his appointment as CEO and to the board of directors in May 2016, he had served as president since May 2014. He served as executive vice president and corporate general manager from November 2012 to May 2014, where he was responsible for all of Skyworks' business units. Since joining Skyworks in 2001, Mr. Griffin has also held the positions of executive vice president and general manager of high performance analog and senior vice president of sales and marketing. Before joining Skyworks, he was the vice president of worldwide sales at Dover Corporation and held product management and process engineering positions at AT&T's Microelectronics and Network Systems' businesses.
Mr. Griffin received a bachelor's of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a master's of business administration from Boston University. In addition, Mr. Griffin serves on the board of Vicor Corp. (NASDAQ: VICR), a designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of modular power components and complete power systems.
Job Titles:
- Chief Legal Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chief Legal Officer at Broadcom
Mark Brazeal is Chief Legal Officer at Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for the legal, governance and compliance functions across the company. Prior to his current role, he served as the Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President, IP Licensing for SanDisk Corporation, until it was acquired by Western Digital Corporation in 2016. Before joining SanDisk, Mr. Brazeal spent 15 years at Broadcom Corporation in various positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as the Senior Vice President and Senior Deputy General Counsel in charge of all commercial, operational, IP licensing and litigation matters for the company. Prior to that, Mr. Brazeal was an attorney in the transactional and IP groups at the law firms of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, CA, Yuasa & Hara in Tokyo, Japan and Howrey & Simon in Washington, D.C. He earned a J.D. and a B.A. in American Government from the University of Virginia.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
- President and CEO of Silicon Labs
Matt Johnson serves as President and CEO of Silicon Labs, where he manages the company's day-to-day business and product development activities. Matt previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Silicon Labs' IoT business, where he was responsible for the development and market success of multiprotocol wireless SoCs and modules, microcontrollers, development tools, and wireless software stacks including Zigbee, Thread, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and proprietary protocols. Prior to joining Silicon Labs, Matt served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of automotive processing products and software development at NXP Semiconductors and Freescale. Before that, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of mobile solutions at Fairchild Semiconductor. Matt holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from the University of Maine and has completed executive programs at Harvard Business School and Stanford University. He also serves on the board of trustees for the Dell Children's Medical Center Foundation.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer / Marvell Technology, Inc.
As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Matt Murphy led the transformation of Marvell into becoming a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions. Joining the company in July 2016 as CEO, Matt is responsible for leading new technology development, directing ongoing operations and driving Marvell's growth strategy.
Prior to joining Marvell, Matt worked for Maxim Integrated, where he advanced through a series of business leadership roles over two decades. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President of Business Units and Sales and Marketing, overseeing all product development and go-to-market activities. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Vice President of the Communications and Automotive Solutions Group and Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing.
Matt is a recipient of a Silicon Valley Business Journal 2019 C-Suite award for CEO of a Large Public Company and was a "40 Under 40" honoree in 2011. In 2018, Institutional Investor named him All-America Executive Team Best CEO in the semiconductor category. He also served as the Chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) in 2018.
Matt earned a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. He served on the Board of Directors of eBay Inc. from March 2019 to June 2022 and is on the Boards of Directors of the SIA and Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) - where he also serves as the GSA Board Chairman.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Global Policy Associate
Matthew Wayland is a global policy associate at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where he supports the global policy team's international competitiveness, trade, emerging markets, and export control agendas. Prior to joining SIA in 2022, he worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) as part of the Economics Program, researching global digital infrastructure.
He received a B.A. in Political Science and East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in Politics and International Studies.
Mike Williams is a well-regarded and highly respected strategic leader who brings 30 years of management and financial experience to SIA.
Mike has held executive positions at several multi-million dollar organizations in a variety of industries, playing an instrumental and strategic role in guiding them through periods of great transition. He was brought into the National Association of Broadcasters, Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America at key times in the evolution of those industries; he served as Executive Vice President specifically to help those organizations evaluate and restructure their internal operations, establish operating policies and procedures and improve communications with their membership. He was instrumental and successful in helping those organizations to restructure to address the many challenges facing their members, including shrinking markets, changing consumer behavior, and changing public perceptions and business models.
Before being recruited by the NAB and MPAA, he served for 9 years as Executive Vice President, Finance and Operations at the Recording Industry Association of America, where he was responsible for everything from operational structure, finance and accounting, market research, information technology and human resources. Mike Williams created and spun off from the RIAA, SoundExchange, a business that represents tens of thousands of artists and record companies. A CPA by training, Mike also served in a senior finance role at a major acute care hospital in Southern California, overseeing internal and external financial reporting as well as the institution's efforts at patient focused process improvement across all departments. He began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co. and then at Ernst & Young.
Mike founded Mike Williams and Associates in 2006 to bring organizational and financial leadership and innovative thinking to businesses and industries undergoing transition and in need of bold organizational strategic realignment. Significant clients include serving as President of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Chief Executive Officer of The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, National Association of Broadcasters, SwapDrive, the Information Technology Industry Council, SoundExchange, Medicia, and Tomorrow's Solutions Today.
Job Titles:
- Director of Government Affairs
- Director of Government Affairs at the Semiconductors Industry Association
Molly O'Leary is the director of government affairs at the Semiconductors Industry Association (SIA), where she advocates on behalf of the association's membership before the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch.
Before joining SIA, Molly served as Director of Government Affairs for NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association where she managed winning advocacy campaigns on behalf of NTCA's 850 rural broadband providers, including work on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act's $65 billion investment in broadband programs. During her time at NTCA, she also represented the association's members in discussions with lead negotiators of legislation on national security and cybersecurity and led strategic advocacy around appropriations, tax policy, and financial services.
Molly previously served as a policy advisor to U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) on technology, telecommunications, transportation, appropriations, and Native affairs. She is also a former judiciary and economic policy aide to U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) for his position on Senate Judiciary Committee.
She received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President & CEO / Wolfspeed, Inc.
- President and Chief Executive Officer at Wolfspeed, Inc
- Trustee of Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology
Mr. Gregg A. Lowe has been the President and Chief Executive Officer at Wolfspeed, Inc. since September 27, 2017. Mr. Lowe served as Chief Executive Officer and President at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. since June 05, 2012 until December 2015. Mr. Lowe served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. (also known as Freescale Semiconductor Holdings I, Ltd.) since June 5, 2012 until December 2015. He has been Chief Executive Officer and President at NXP USA, Inc. since June 2016. Mr. Lowe has more than a decade of executive leadership experience at Freescale Semiconductor and Texas Instruments and holds Silicon Labs board position.
Mr. Lowe served as Senior Vice President and leader of the Analog business unit for Texas Instruments Inc., which includes high-performance analog, power management and high-volume analog and logic. Mr. Lowe served as a Senior Vice President at Texas Instruments Inc. until April 2006. He served as Manager of Total Analog Business Unit at Texas Instruments, Inc. since April 2006 and served as its Manager of High-Performance Analog until April 2006. Since April 2006, Mr. Lowe has led global strategy and operations for Texas' wide-ranging portfolio of standard and application-specific analog chips. He joined Texas Instruments' field sales organization in 1984 with responsibility for growing the business with automobile manufacturers.
In 1989, Mr. Lowe moved to Germany to lead the European automotive sales force, managing teams and customer relationships in France, Germany, Italy, England and Spain. In 1994, he returned to the U.S. to manage the microcontroller organization. Mr. Lowe led the application specific integrated circuit organization and oversaw a worldwide team with design centers and customers on each continent. In 2001, he moved to analog to manage high-speed communications and controls. He serves as a Director of NXP USA, Inc.
He has been a Director of Wolfspeed, Inc. since September 27, 2017. Mr. Lowe serves as a Trustee of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has been a Director of Silicon Laboratories Inc. since April 2017. He served as a Director of Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. since 2012. Mr. Lowe serves as a Director of Baylor Health Care System Foundation. He served as a Member of the Board of Advisors of InCube Ventures, LLC. Mr. Lowe served as a Director of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. He received the university's Career Achievement Award to recognize his accomplishments in the community and within the semiconductor industry. Mr. Lowe serves on the board of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a proven Leader. Mr. Lowe graduated from the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University. Mr. Lowe has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1984 from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- CEO / Intel Corporation
- Chief Executive Officer of Intel Corporation
Patrick (Pat) Gelsinger is chief executive officer of Intel Corporation and serves on its board of directors. On Feb. 15, 2021, Gelsinger returned to Intel, the company where he had spent the first 30 years of his career.
Before rejoining Intel, Gelsinger was CEO of VMware. In that role, he transformed VMware into a recognized global leader in cloud infrastructure, enterprise mobility and cyber security - almost tripling the company's annual revenues. Gelsinger was also ranked the best CEO in America in 2019, according to an annual survey by Glassdoor. Prior to joining VMware in 2012, Gelsinger was president and chief operating officer of EMC's Information Infrastructure Products business, overseeing engineering and operations for information storage, data computing, backup and recovery, RSA security and enterprise solutions.
Gelsinger began his career in 1979 at Intel, becoming its first chief technology officer, and also serving as senior vice president and the general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group. He managed the creation of key industry technologies such as USB and Wi-Fi. He was the architect of the original 80486 processor, led 14 microprocessor programs and played key roles in the Intel® Core™ and Intel® Xeon® processor families, leading to Intel becoming the preeminent microprocessor supplier.
Gelsinger earned several degrees in electrical engineering: an associate degree from Lincoln Technical Institute, a bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University and a master's degree from Stanford University. He holds eight patents in the areas of VLSI design, computer architecture and communications, is an IEEE Fellow, and serves as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Gelsinger and his wife have been married for over 30 years; they have four children and eight grandchildren. He is also a published author and speaks frequently on faith, work and philanthropy.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Chairman of the Board / Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Chairman of the Board of Texas Instruments
Rich Templeton is chairman of the board of Texas Instruments. He became chairman of the board in April, 2008, and president and chief executive officer in May, 2004. He has served on the company's board of directors since July, 2003.
From April, 2000 through April, 2004, Templeton was chief operating officer of TI. He was executive vice president of the company and president of TI's Semiconductor business from June, 1996 through April, 2004.
Templeton is credited with helping to define and execute TI's strategy to focus on semiconductors for signal processing. Operationally, he guided the company during this transformation. Later as CEO, he continued to reshape the company, focusing resources on growth opportunities in Analog and Embedded Processing while repositioning our Wireless business on growth areas in the smartphone market. Throughout this process, he has maintained the company's strategic investments in R&D and manufacturing, while expanding the size of our sales and applications engineering team to better serve our customers. Under his leadership, TI has emerged stronger, with better technological and product positions in each of these core businesses.
Templeton joined the company in 1980, after earning a bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering from Union College in New York. He spent his operational career in the company's Semiconductor business, beginning in sales and eventually becoming president of the entire business.
He topped the list of Institutional Investor's Best Semiconductor CEOs in America for three consecutive years from 2007 through 2009.
In addition to his TI duties, Templeton serves on the board of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the board of directors of Catalyst, and the board of trustees of Southern Methodist University and Southwestern Medical Foundation. He is also a member of the Business Roundtable and the Dallas CEO Roundtable.
Job Titles:
- Director of Global Policy
Rina Pal-Goetzen is the director of global policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where she is responsible for the association's international trade policy agenda, including trade agreements, market access, and emerging market development. Before joining SIA, Rina was General Counsel of 3D printed microTEC in San Francisco, California, the leader in 3D printed chip packaging. She also served as Head of Global Health Policy at Bayer AG in Düsseldorf, Germany, where she worked on market access for the Asia-Pacific region, represented the company to the European Union and at international organizations on trade and health, and led global intellectual property policy. Previously, Rina focused on trade and global intellectual property policy at the US Chamber of Commerce, was Director at the George Washington Law School, and started off her career as an intellectual property attorney in California.
Rina is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, earned an M.Sc. at Oxford University, and received a law degree at Arizona State University, College of Law. She is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
- President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Qorvo
Robert Bruggeworth is president, chief executive officer, and director of Qorvo. Prior to the merger of RFMD and TriQuint to form Qorvo, he served as president and chief executive officer of RFMD from January, 2003 to December, 2014. He was previously president of RFMD from June, 2002 until January, 2003. Before this he was also vice president and then president of RFMD's wireless products group. Prior to joining RFMD in September, 1999, Mr. Bruggeworth held various leadership positions at AMP Inc., a supplier of electrical and electronic connection devices, from July, 1983 to April, 1999, serving most recently as vice president of global computer and consumer electronics, based in Hong Kong. He is a graduate of Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Job Titles:
- Director of Industry
- Director, Industry Statistics and Economic Policy
Robert Casanova is the director of industry statistics and economic policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where he directs SIA's statistics, data analysis, and industry research. Prior to joining SIA, Robert was an Industry Analyst and commodities expert at the U.S. International Trade Commission where he was responsible for research and market analysis of the semiconductor, robotics, and AI industries. Robert also worked on the staff of Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), where he handled the Senator's International Trade, Small Business, and Indian Affairs legislative portfolio. Robert received a M.A. in International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Robert is an enrolled member of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (MPTN) located in Mashantucket, CT, and an active member in his community. He is currently the Chair of the Tribe's Audit Advisory Corporate Board for MPTN and the Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprise.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
Mr. Mehrotra joined Micron in May, 2017, after a long and distinguished career at SanDisk Corporation where he led the company from start-up in 1988 until its eventual sale in 2016. In addition to being a SanDisk co-founder, Mr. Mehrotra served as its' president and CEO from 2011 to 2016, overseeing its growth to an industry-leading Fortune 500 company.
Mr. Mehrotra earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He holds more than 70 patents and has published articles in the areas of nonvolatile memory design and flash memory systems.
Job Titles:
- Events & Membership Manager
Sarah Ravi is the events & membership manager at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). She is responsible for managing SIA's events such as the Annual Awards Dinner, SIA board meetings, Capitol Hill briefings, and media events. She is also responsible for maintaining and growing SIA's membership. In addition, Sarah is responsible for managing SIA's member communications.
Prior to joining SIA, Sarah worked at the National Apartment Association developing education programming for three national conferences.
Sarah holds her Bachelor's in Economics from The University of Chicago where she was also a varsity swimmer. She is an avid traveler and enjoys the outdoors.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President
- General Counsel
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Secretary
Timothy S. Teter is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at NVIDIA Corporation. He joined NVIDIA in January 2017.
Before joining NVIDIA, Tim served as a Partner at the law firm Cooley LLP, where for more than two decades he litigated patent and technology-related matters throughout the United States.
Prior to Cooley, Tim worked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco and the United States District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles.
Tim received a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1993, where he was an Editor of the Stanford Law Review, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Davis in 1988.
Before law school, Tim worked as an Engineer at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. in Sunnyvale, where he worked on the Hubble Space Telescope Program.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
- President & CEO / Analog Devices, Inc.
As President, Chief Executive Officer, and member of the Board of Directors, Mr. Roche sets Analog Devices' strategic vision and oversees operational execution across the business. Since becoming ADI's president in 2012 and CEO in 2013, Mr. Roche has been instrumental in growing the organization's market leadership in the high-performance analog sector through a strong customer-centric focus and unyielding commitment to innovation and engineering excellence. Under his leadership, ADI has expanded the breadth of its product portfolio and added new technologies and capabilities to provide more comprehensive solutions to customers' toughest technical challenges.
Mr. Roche is only the third CEO to lead the company since its founding in 1965. He began his career at ADI in 1988, progressively gaining responsibility in product line management, strategic marketing, and business unit management roles during his early tenure. Mr. Roche held senior positions for ADI in Ireland, Massachusetts, and California, and in 2001 was given responsibility for global sales and marketing as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. In 2009, Mr. Roche was named Vice President for the newly created Worldwide Sales and Strategic Market Segments Group, where he focused on integrating ADI technology into optimized solutions for industrial, automotive, and infrastructure customers. Mr. Roche was promoted to President of ADI in 2012, taking responsibility for all R&D, sales, marketing and business development and in May 2013, he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer.
Mr. Roche serves on the Board of Directors of Acacia Communications, Inc., a leading developer of high-speed coherent optical interconnect products that transform communications networks through improvements in performance and capacity and a reduction in associated costs.
Mr. Roche earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Limerick in Ireland.
Job Titles:
- Director of Government Affairs
- Director of Government Affairs at the Semiconductors Industry Association
Zach Isakowitz serves as a director of government affairs at the Semiconductors Industry Association (SIA), where he advocates before the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch to advance the industry's policy priorities.
Prior to joining SIA, Zach served as the Legislative Director to Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), where he advised the Congressman on policy areas that included semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and research and development. He was a lead staffer for the Congressman in the lead up to the passage and eventual implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act. Congressman McCaul was the original sponsor for the CHIPS for America Act. In addition to technology, Zach advised the Congressman on issues relating to appropriations and others impacting the Congressman's district which stretched between Austin and Houston.
Zach previously served as the Director of Public Affairs for the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) within the Department of the Treasury. Additionally, he served as a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of TFI and as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury for Advance.
He received a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of Delaware.