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imt management team

dr. john s. foster, chairman and ceo (john@imtmems.com)
20+ years of high technology experience including corporate management and university professorship
PhD, applied physics, Stanford University
   
peter altavilla, chief financial officer (petea@imtmems.com)
25+ years in the high tech industry as a senior financial officer, developing cost management systems and tax strategies
BA, University of California, Santa Barbara
   
monte heaton, vp maketing and sales (monte@imtmems.com)
25+ years of marketing and sales management experience for high technology products, including the first pc-based laboratory analysis systems and atomic force microscopy
MS, environmental and marine chemistry, Stony Brook University (SUNY), Stony Brook, New York
   
mike shillinger, vp operation (mike_shillinger@imtmems.com)
25+ years of operations management experience, including high-volume wafer manufacturing
MSME, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
   
paul rubel, vp product development (paul@imtmems.com)
20+ years of engineering and r&d management experience, including development of optical switches, relays, bi-stable electromagnetic MEMS, and others
BSME, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
   
dr. chris gudeman, vp process development (cgudeman@imtmems.com)
25+ years of high technology experience including tribology, optical MEMS and r&d management
PhD, physical chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   
doug thompson, vp quality and product engineering (doug@imtmems.com)
20+ years of high technology management experience in r&d and high-volume manufacturing
BSME and BSMS, University of California, Davis
 

imt board of directors

dr. john s. foster, chairman of the board
   
scott avila
managing partner of Corporate Revitalization Partners, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in restructurings
specializes in developing and implementing corporate restructuring plans and providing interim management to operationally and financially distressed organizations
 

malcolm currie
chairman and ceo of Currie Technologies Inc.
serves on the boards of LSI Logic Corporation, Inamed Corporation, Enova Systems, and Regal One Corporation
also on the board of trustees for the University of Southern California, where he previously served as chairman
formerly, chairman of Constellation Communications, chairman and ceo of Hughes Electronics Corporation, president of Hughes Missile Systems, and president of Delco Electronics Corporation
   
jim jones
joined Scale Venture Partners in 2000, focusing in semiconductor and MEMS components and enterprise systems, and currently sits on the boards of Auvitek, Discera, Entone, Enuclia, NComputing, and Xceive; and was also responsible for ScaleVP's investment in Monolithic Power Systems (NASDAQ: MPWR)
previously, led product management, product marketing, and business development groups at 3Com Corporation, where he managed a diverse $1.2 billion product line; also spearheaded the company's entry into and market leadership of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet solutions as well as its foray into the home networking market
prior to 3Com, worked in integrated circuit development and marketing with National Semiconductor, focusing on analog, ATM, FDDI, and Ethernet controller and transceiver solutions
BSEE degree from the University of California at Davis
   
jose suarez
a managing director of Investor Growth Capital, the wholly owned venture capital arm of Investor AB, joining Investor AB's Asian operations in 1997; now based in IGCs Menlo Park, California office, he focuses on the semiconductor, semiconductor infrastructure, and out-sourcing sectors
currently serves as a director on the boards of Atrenta, Inc., Chelsio Communications, eSilicon Corporation, Innovative Micro Technology, Magnum Semiconductor, and Millennium Microtech.
BA in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College
   
heiner sussner
managing partner of Miramar Venture Partners, a Southern California based venture fund
also serves on the boards of Azuro and Fastsoft, formerly member of the board of directors of Protego Networks (acq. by Cisco) and Headway Technologies (acq. by TDK)
former senior managing director of Hembricht & Quist Asia Pacific, 16 years of executive positions at IBM Europe and IBM Research
PhD in physics from the University of Konstanz, 1994 IEEE Medal for Engineering Excellence
   
barry waite
a senior advisor with IGC
currently holds board seats at Kulicke and Sofa Industries and Zetex Semiconductor
30+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry, ranging from wafer fabrication and marketing to international partnerships and business alliances
formerly the president and ceo of Chartered Semiconductor, and has held management positions with Texas Instruments and Motorola
   
dr. jill wittels
corporate vice president of Business Development for L-3 Communications Corporation
formerly, vice president and general manager of Infrared Imaging Systems, Inc., a division of BAE Systems
25 years of experience in business and technology management in the defense electronics industry



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