Pieter Vorenkamp
Vice President & Chief Architect
Central Engineering
Broadcom Corporation
Pieter Vorenkamp’s responsibilities (Vice President and Chief Architect for Central Engineering at Broadcom Corporation) include the technical leadership and customer relations for Analog Mixed-Signal and RF development, Library technology development (Standard Cell, Memories and IO’s) and EDA tools. In his present role Pieter drives core technology development and design methodologies for Broadcom Corporation predominantly focusing on nano-meter CMOS technologies.
Pieter joined Broadcom (Irvine, CA) in November 1997 where he has held progressively Senior Engineering Management positions. As a Senior Director of the Analog and RF Micro-Electronics Department, Pieter has been instrumental in growing the world-class Analog/RF design team in Irvine, San-Jose, The Netherlands, Singapore, Taiwan, Fort Collins and Austin, supporting all Analog and Mixed-Signal IP’s required for Broadcom’s Broadband Communications SoC products . During the past 10 years of his tenure, he expanded the Analog and Mixed-Signal IP library covering the entire spectrum of IP required for all Broadband Communication SoC designs.
Prior to joining Broadcom, Pieter was involved in research and development of high-speed, high-resolution data-converters for Video and Instrumentation Applications at Philips Research and Philips Semiconductors in The Netherlands and France, respectively.
Pieter received his Master’s degree from Twente University in The Netherlands in 1989.
Pieter is an author of many international publications and is a named author of over 30 US-patents.
Joe Drake
Joe Drake is currently Director of Engineering at Coherent Inc. where he has been managing the product development and manufacturing of Coherent’s Optically Pumped Semiconductor Laser technology. Previously, as Vice President of Engineering at iolon, Joe built and led the engineering team that had the responsibility for coordinating the transfer of novel MEMS-based optical fiber components from research into high volume manufacturing. He was uniquely experienced to achieve this charter having spent over 20 years in the semiconductor and MEMS industry including considerable time spent in both the manufacturing and R&D functions. Prior to iolon, Joe held the position of Research Staff Member at Seagate Research in San Jose contributing to the development of MEMS solutions for high density magneto-optical data storage, which built upon his work as Manager of Micromachining Technology at Quinta Corporation. As a result of his contributions at Seagate and Quinta, Joe has been awarded 18 patents and was inducted into Seagate’s Technology Hall of Fame. Prior to Quinta, Joe spent seven years as a manufacturing development engineer for Si bipolar and GaAs integrated circuits with Hewlett-Packard and four years as a Research Scientist developing custom MEMS devices with EG&G IC Sensors. Joe holds both a MSEE and BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rick Hegberg
Hegberg has been in the semiconductor industry for more than 25 years and comes to Numonyx from AMD, where he’s been the senior VP of worldwide sales for the past year.
Hegberg joined AMD from ATI Technologies, where he was senior VP of worldwide sales from 2003 to 2006. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and began his semiconductor career as a sales manager for Motorola. Since then Hegberg has held a variety of roles in companies such as Electronic Designs Inc., which he founded; VLSI Technologies, where he was vice president and general manager; and Lucent Technologies Microelectronics, where he was also VP of worldwide sales. In addition, Hegberg was the CEO of a start-up company called NetOctave, which he successfully sold in 2003. Hegberg has two daughters and enjoys golf, tennis, and running.
Mike O’Neill
Mike O’Neill is a senior business executive with extensive experience in P&L
management, corporate & product strategy, business development and venture finance.
Mr. O’Neill recently completed the integration of several product lines in ON
Semiconductor’s acquisition of AMI Semiconductor. Mr. O’Neill joined AMI Semiconductor in 2005 and led a re-vitalization of the company’s digital ASIC business, setting the business strategy and realigning the organization & product roadmap, achieving a 55% increase in design wins in the first year. In optimizing the business unit performance in accordance with AMI’s corporate goal to drive earnings growth and gross margin improvement, he drove gross margins well above 50% and returned >20% operating income while growing top line revenue. He assumed responsibility for an emerging, pre-revenue product line and guided it to a successful launch. With ON Semiconductor’s acquisition of AMI in early 2008, Mr. O’Neill led the integration of his product lines with the ON sales channels, and initiated & negotiated a technology license providing ON access to a next-generation technology platform. Assuming responsibility for a declining image sensor business, he turned around the business by setting a new sales strategy and positioning the product line on a more cost-effective technology platform, leading to bookings of M in new business in the first year. Mr. O’Neill left ON Semi having completed a successful integration of AMI’s business.
Mr. O’Neill spent 4 years at Kodiak Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies and working with entrepreneurs to build businesses. As a hands-on investor, he was involved in developing strategy and recruiting executives and directors as well as all aspects of financing and fund raising.
Mr. O’Neill joined Philsar Semiconductor in 1998, leading the early-stage startup in a transition from a design services business to a fabless semiconductor company. He built the company’s marketing, sales and business development function and saw Philsar through its acquisition by Conexant Systems.
From 1987 to 1997, Mr. O’Neill was employed by IBM. He held positions in engineering and engineering management before taking technical and marketing roles in IBM’s Microelectronics Division.
Mr. O’Neill received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, in 1986 and 1987, respectively.
Ken-Ya Hashimoto
Ken-ya Hashimoto was born in Fukushima, Japan, on March 2, 1956. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering in 1978 and 1980, respectively, from Chiba University, Japan, and Dr. Eng. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1989.
In 1980, he joined Chiba University as a Research Associate, and is now a Professor of the University. In 1998, he was a Visiting Professor at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. In the winter of 1998/1999, he was a Visiting Scientist of the Laboratoire de Physique et Metrologie des Oscillateurs (LPMO), CNRS, France. In 1999 and 2001, he was a Visiting Professor at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria.
In 2001, he served as a guest co-editor of the Special Issue on Microwave Acoustic Wave Devices for Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He also served as a publicity co-chair of the 2002 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium. Since 1996 he has been a member of the technical program committee of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, and since 2001 of the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium. In 2002, he was appointed to a member of the speaker’s bureau of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He serves as the International Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society during the period from July 2005 to December 2006. He now seves as the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Device Society
Dr. Hashimoto has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has contributed to 10 books including a textbook Surface Acoustic Wave Devices in Telecommunications published by Springer Verlag in 2000. His current research interests include various types of surface and bulk acoustic wave devices, acoustic wave sensors and actuators, piezoelectric thin films, application of thin-film and micro-machining technologies to the acoustic wave devices and RF circuit design.
Dr. Hashimoto is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, and the Acoustical Society of Japan.