SENSOR PLATFORMS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Founder of Newbury
- Senior Managing Director, Newbury Ventures
Bruce is a founder of Newbury and has spent more than 20 years in the venture capital industry. At Newbury, Bruce focuses on investments in security, imaging, sensors, IT and enterprise software products and services. Bruce led the firm's investments in, and has served on the Boards of Sentillion, Okena (acquired by Cisco), MessageGate, PacificEdge (acquired by Serena), Hydrocision, PS'Soft and Sensor Platforms.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Principal of Carinalli Ventures
Mr. Carinalli has been a Principal of Carinalli Ventures since 2002 and has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. From 1999 to 2001, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Adaptive Silicon, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company. From 1996 to 1999 he was President and CEO of Wavespan Corporation. He previously worked in several management and executive positions with National Semiconductor Corporation from 1970 to 1996, including as senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer from 1992 to 1996. Mr. Carinalli is a director of Atmel Corporation, Extreme Networks, Inc. and Fairchild Semiconductor.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- CEO and Board Member at CPU Tech
- CEO, IOnU
Clay Johnson is currently the CEO and board member at CPU Tech which produces secure processors that protect software and systems from reverse engineering. Clay has more than 25 years of experience in semiconductors and development tools. He spent more than sixteen years at Xilinx where his last position was VP/GM of the General Products Division.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Management Team
Dan was most recently a Technology Partner at Arrowpath Ventures. He was also the CEO of OnSite Systems where he successfully doubled revenue prior to the company's acquisition. Before that, he served in business development, marketing and executive product management at Centerpoint Broadband Technologies and Mayan Networks. Dan also led the development of network infrastructure and customer solutions as Vice President of Engineering at FirstWorld Communications, a Denver-based CLEC. He has held other high level and technical management positions at 3Com and British Telecom.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Team
- VP of Business Development
Frank has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor, MEMS, solar, and biotechnology industries. Prior to joining Sensor Platforms Frank held executive management positions at Mcube and Lumedyne Technologies focused on developing inertial MEMS sensor technologies. As Manager of Sensor Technology Development at Motorola (now Freescale), he was part of the team that developed and commercialized some of the first revolutionary high volume MEMS products. He also held senior management positions at Akustica and Orchid Cellmark. Frank has seven issued MEMS patents and over thirty technical publications and presentations and is a co-author of the first MEMS textbook. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with an emphasis in semiconductor device physics from Arizona State University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Team
- VP of Engineering
Jim has a track record of leading successful development of complex algorithms, software, and system engineering for cellular systems, RF communications and memory products. He also co-authored The Android Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK, and has given many invited lectures on using sensors with Android. Prior to joining Sensor Platforms, he has held senior management positions at Spansion, Polaris Wireless and ArrayComm as well as research positions in theoretical and particle physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ohio State University. Jim holds a Ph. D. in theoretical physics from State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Management Team
John has 20 years experience in the financial and operations management of early stage technology companies. Prior to joining Sensor Platforms, John was CFO of Ceon Corporation where he led the successful restructuring of this OSS software company. After restructuring, Ceon became the dominant supplier of provisioning and activation systems to the cable TV industry for Internet and IP phone access. Previously he served as CFO of Mayan Networks, a telecommunications, multi-service provisioning platform provider. At Mayan Networks, John raised $90 million in equity from top tier venture capitalists and $75 million in convertible debt led by Fidelity. John has also been a Partner with Technology Funding, a venture capital firm. He holds an MA and BA in Economics from San Francisco State University
Job Titles:
- Chief Technology Officer
- Member of the Management Team
Kevin established the algorithm development efforts at Sensor Platforms and contributes to its business development efforts. He has over 20 years experience in sensors and MEMS and was a member the formative engineering team at Kionix, a leader in motion sensors and accelerometers, integral in establishing its MEMS process and sensor design. At Calient Optical Components, Kevin was critical in the development of its optical switch and defining new markets for its switching business. He co-founded and sold Ironwood Technologies, a company in the transportation services sector. He is a inventor having earned 25 U.S. patents in the fields of MEMS and sensors. Kevin holds a Doctorate from Cornell University in MEMS and MEMS/IC integration and a Masters from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he is a Stanford Sloan Fellow.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Managing Partner of Arrowpath Venture Capital
Morgan is a Managing Partner of Arrowpath Venture Capital and brings over 15 years of experience with information technology companies as an investor, investment banker and finance executive. He focuses primarily on investments in application and infrastructure software, with an emphasis on security, data management and data integration. Morgan currently serves on the Board, or is a Board observer, of Actional, Gamma Technologies, Immunix (acquired by Novell), Saqqara, and Siperian. Prior investments and Board seats include NetSec (acquired by MCI), Security Focus (acquired by Symantec) and Sanera Systems (acquired by McData).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Partner
- Partner, New Science Ventures
Vivek Mohindra joined New Science Ventures as a Partner in April 2013. He serves on the Board of Directors of GlobalFoundries, Inc., Sensor Platforms, Inc., Mangstor, Inc. and Ferric Semiconductor, Inc. Vivek joined NSV from TPG Capital where he was an Operating Group Partner working with portfolio companies on strategy, growth and operational issues, and with deal teams on due diligences. Prior to TPG, Vivek served as SVP of Strategy and Business Transformation for Freescale Semiconductor and held several senior executive roles at Dell in Product Group, Marketing and as VP/GM of Dell's North America SMB Group. Vivek joined Dell from McKinsey & Company where he was a Partner. At McKinsey, he was co-leader of McKinsey's global Semiconductor practice, as well as its Asian High Tech & Telecoms practices based in Seoul. Vivek holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Roorkee) in addition to an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in Semiconductor Processing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.