Joseph Adam is an industry veteran with over 20 years of in the semiconductor industry. Adam was previously vice president of Operations for WiSpry. Before joining WiSpry, he was vice president of external manufacturing for Skyworks (formerly Conexant). In this role, he led the functional group responsible for operations strategy, external foundry, assembly and test subcontractor management. While at Skyworks, he also held other vice president roles, leading the strategic marketing, technology, assembly and test functions. Prior to Skyworks, he served as director of package development for the semiconductor division of Rockwell Corporation. Adam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University and is on the Inputive Technical Advisory Board, the Octane Operations Advisory Board, and is chairman of the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) of the Packaging Roadmap Group.

Jim Hartman is a leader in the process engineering and manufacturing areas, bringing over 20 years of diverse experiences at companies such as Unisys Corporation, S-T Microelectronics, Microsemi Corporation, OMM and International Rectifier. Hartman is currently vice president of Engineering for Atomate in Simi Valley where he is responsible for process development and process integration of carbon nanotubes into semiconductor devices. In this role, he established the development group at the R&D foundry, reduced process cycle time by 75 percent and established an internal process lab to improve process control.

Hartman holds M.S. in Chemistry from San Diego State University.

John Petersen is a pioneer in the Electronics industry, bringing over 35 years of experience, including: engineering and management positions at Motorola and Rockwell International and executive positions at Western Digital, Texas Instruments and Microsemi Corporation. Petersen is currently the vice president of Quality and Business Process Improvement at Microsemi where he has led corporate initiatives to improve time-to-market, outsource wafer fabrication, improve customer satisfaction and improve the design win (sales) process.

Petersen has a background in quality, engineering and operations. He has managed teams that have been responsible for microprocessor IC development, storage controller development at the IC and board level, wafer fabrication process development, and reliability and quality assurance at the IC, board and drive level. His experience includes building senior level relationships with customers and suppliers in the US, Europe and Asia and leading senior level, cross-functional teams to improve business results.

Petersen was the founding chairman of the Electrical Engineering Advisory Committee at University of California at Irvine and is a past chairman of the Orange County, California, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers ( I.E.E.E.).

Kurt Petersen is a Consulting Professor of EE at Stanford University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1970. In 1975, he received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Petersen established a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems) research group while at IBM Research from 1975 to 1982. Since 1982, Dr. Petersen has co-founded four Silicon Valley companies in MEMS technology, Transensory Devices Inc. in 1982, NovaSensor in 1985, Cepheid in 1996, and SiTime in 2004. Each of these companies has become technical and commercial leaders in the field of MEMS devices and applications. NovaSensor is owned by General Electric. Cepheid is now a public company (CPHD) selling advanced DNA diagnostic products; particularly to the US Postal Service for detecting anthrax in the US mail, as well as for human diagnostic testing. Most recently, SiTime was established with the mission of commercializing MEMS-based resonators for electronic timing products, and transforming a large fraction of the $4B, 40-year-old quartz crystal marketplace. SiTime shipped its first 100K resonators in 2007.

Dr. Petersen has published over 100 papers, and has been granted over 35 patents in the field of MEMS. In 2001 he was awarded the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal for his contributions to MEMS. Dr. Petersen is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the IEEE in recognition of his contributions to “the commercialization of MEMS technology”.

Gabriel Rebeiz is a leader in research and development of the technology used in ultrasmall radio frequency and micro-electro-mechanical systems (RF MEMS). Currently employed by UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering in San Diego, Professor Rebeiz received a B.S. in electrical engineering with distinction from the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1982, and an M.S. and PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He joined the University of Michigan’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1991 he was the recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the 1993 URSI Isaac Koga Gold Medal Award for outstanding international research. The IEEE gave Rebeiz its IEEE Microwave Prize in 2000 and it’s Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2003. A Fellow of the IEEE and a consultant to Intel, Agilent, Hitachi, and Samsung, Rebeiz has published extensively in the fields of microwave technology, planar antennas, and RF-MEMS. He has given more than 20 distinguished and plenary invited presentations in the past 10 years. His book, RF-MEMS: Theory, Design, and Technology, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2003, have received wide acclaim. Rebeiz has won a variety of teaching awards at the University of Michigan, including the university’s Amoco Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998, and the Eta Kappa Nu 1998 Professor of the Year Award given by a confidential vote of electrical engineering students.