| Rajesh Vashist | Markus Lutz | Aaron Partridge | Craig Garber |
| Fari Assaderaghi | Peter Himes | Nara Bharath | Bernhard Boser |
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Rajesh Vashist, chief executive officer at SiTime, has over 22 years of experience in the Semiconductor industry. Prior to SiTime, Vashist served as CEO and chairman of the board at Ikanos Communications (NASDAQ: IKAN). Mr. Vashist grew Ikanos from a small start up to a highly competitive and successful publicly traded company. Ikanos is a leading global provider of high performance silicon and software for interactive broadband. Prior to Ikanos, Vashist was general manager at Adaptec. Prior to Adaptec, Vashist held positions at Vitelic Semiconductor and Samsung Semiconductor. Vashist holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from REC Rourkela in India and an M.B.A. from Marquette University in Wisconsin.
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Markus Lutz, CTO, Executive Vice President Initial inventor of InChipMEMS™ technology, which allows vacuum-sealed MEMS structures to be manufactured in ultra-pure wafer cavities with integrated CMOS and shipped in low-cost industry standard packages. SiTime is using this key intellectual property to bring to market the lowest cost, high performance resonators and oscillators, which are 1/8 th the size of leading-edge competitive timing devices. Mr. Lutz received his Diplom Ingenieur Elektrotechnik at the Technical University of Munich in 1992. He started his career at Robert Bosch GmbH in Reutlingen Germany, where over 4 years he invented and managed the development of Bosch's first silicon based MEMS gyroscope, now a $200M/year business. In 1999 he joined the newly founded Research and Technology Center of Bosch in Palo Alto as MEMS Program Director. Together with Aaron Partridge (CSO) and Professor Tom Kenny's (Technical Advisory Board, Board Member) team he further developed InChipMEMS™ and wrote the first business plan for commercialization of InChipMEMS™ in the timing market. Markus holds 35 patents, authored and co-authored 14 publications.
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Aaron Partridge received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1996, 1999, and 2003, respectively. From 2001 through 2004 he was Project Manager at Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center (RTC), Palo Alto, CA, where he coordinated the MEMS resonator research. In 1987, he co-founded Atomis, Inc., a manufacturer of STM, AFM, and Ballistic Emission Electron Microscopes (BEEM), were he was Chief Scientist through 1991 when Atomis was sold to Surface Interface Inc. Atomis equipment has been installed at AT&T Bell Laboratories, CERN, NIST, GM, and various universities. Dr. Partridge has authored and co-authored over 30 scientific papers and holds over 10 patents.
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Craig Garber, Chief Financial Officer for SiTime, has more than 20 years of financial experience in the semiconductor equipment industry. Prior to joining SiTime, Craig was employed at Lam Research Corporation for eight years. He served as Lam’s Vice President of Corporate Finance and Treasurer from 1997 to 2003, with global responsibility for Treasury, Tax, Credit & Collections, and Foreign Trade. While in this role, he guided Lam’s successful outsourcing of core accounting operations. Most recently, Craig served as Lam’s Vice President, Finance/Europe in Switzerland. Craig was responsible for guiding the financial restructuring of the Lam’s international operations and also served as Controller of the European operations. Prior to his tenure at Lam Research, Craig worked for 13 years at Applied Materials, Inc. in a steady progression of financial management roles with increasing responsibilities. Craig holds an A.B. degree from the University of Chicago in Disciplines of the Humanities and an M.B.A. degree from The University of California at Berkeley.
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Fari Assaderaghi, Vice President of Engineering Fariborz (Fari) Assaderaghi received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from SDSU, graduating Summa Cum Laude and University Valedictorian in 1989. After an internship with AT&T Bell Labs, he attended UC Berkeley where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1992 and 1994, respectively. After graduation, Dr. Assaderaghi joined HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA. From 1995 to 2001 he was with IBM TJ Watson Research Center in New York where he co-developed the first commercial version of CMOS SOI for VLSI. The technology became the workhorse for IBM’s high-end microprocessors and was used in Apple’s processors, as well as Sony Playstation-3 Cell Processor. He was the technology director for Silicon Wave Inc., a San Diego based company developing Bluetooth products, from 2001 to 2003. Silicon Wave was later acquired by RF Micro Devices Corporation. From 2003 till 2008, he was with Rambus (Los Altos, CA), most recently as the Senior Director of Engineering. His groups were responsible for developing very high speed chip-to-chip data communication circuits, including all high-speed links for the PS3 Cell processor, TI DLP, and 16Gb/s ASIC to memory links for the Terabyte/sec initiative. Dr. Assaderaghi has contributed to two book chapters and to more than 80 technical papers. He holds 47 patents, with more than 20 pending.
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Peter Himes, Vice President of Sales Peter Himes has over 25 years experience in the semiconductor industry, having received his BSEE in Solid State Electronics from the University of Connecticut and MBA from Santa Clara University. His career spans engineering, marketing and sales positions at established and start-up firms. Until 1996 he worked at National Semiconductor Corporation, most recently as Director of the Power Management Strategic Market Segment Corporate Strategic Marketing Director for the Analog Products division. A member of the founding team for Impala Linear, a power management startup based in Santa Clara; most recently he lead Sales and Customer Service for the Americas and Europe for Winbond Electronics Corporation, a $1.2B Taiwanese company serving the memory, computer and consumer logic electronics fields.
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Nara Bharath, Vice President of Customer Engineering Narayanan (Nara) Bharath, has more than 22 years of design and development experience in hardware, firmware and systems design. His experience covers areas of Telecom and Data communications design and manufacturing. Most recently, Nara was the VP Customer Engineering at Ikanos Communications where he was instrumental in winning and supporting customers and Telcos worldwide. Nara has been successful at building and managing multiple worldwide locations of Development, Applications and Field Support teams. Previously he was at Copper Mountain Networks, Information Technology Institute in Singapore and CDOT in India. Nara completed his BS in Electronics and Telecommunications from University of Madras, India.
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Bernhard Boser, Chief Scientist Bernhard E. Boser (S'79–M'83–F'03) received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in 1984 and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 1992, he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Adaptive Systems Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1992, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley where he is also a Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center. His research is in the area of analog and mixed-signal circuits, with special emphasis on sensor interfaces. Dr. Boser has served on the program committees of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Transducers Conference, and the VLSI Symposium. He is an IEEE Fellow and past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits. Dr. Boser has authored and co-authored over 100 scientific papers and books and holds 6 patents.
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