Study Group: Semiconductor Capital Equipment Experts (North America)(?)

John Berg is the Chief Technology Officer of American Semiconductor, which designs and fabricates low power, high performance IC's for RF, satellite, and avionics applications. Mr. Berg specializes in RF design, analog design, mixed signal design, programmable logic design, CMOS sensor design, microcontroller...

Mel Burks is currently Founder and Senior Partner at Tech Quest Research, LLC. Mr. Burks has over 25 years of experience in process engineering and semiconductor manufacturing from the Front-end to the Back-end. He is experienced in all wafer fabrication processes and knowledgeable on advanced process...

Sam Wang, Ph.D., is the President at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Americas, a wafer foundry. He is also the venture partner of Asenqua venture, a venture fund based in the Silicon Valley. He serves as the Board Advisor of Sunsil Inc., a semiconductor firm representing wafer...

Israel Beinglass, Ph.D., is the Managing Director at ISB Ventures. He was most recently (until 2006) the Chief Technology Officer & Chief Marketing Officer at Applied Materials. He is now working as an independent consultant to the industry. Dr. Beinglass has over 25 years of experience in semiconductor...

Mark Oskowsky has formed his own hi-tech development consulting firm exclusively focused on wireless technology after spending over 25 years in various engineering and management positions at cellular, satellite, semiconductor and wireless telecommunication companies...

Ankur Agarwal is a member of technical staff at Spansion, a former subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices specializing in flash memories. He has authored patents in process technology. He specializes in dielectric etch and advanced etch process development and is experienced in developing new etch processes...

Tom Coughlin is the President of Coughlin Associates, Inc. He is an acknowledged authority on data storage products including storage devices, network attached storage, storage area networks, and storage applications. Dr. Coughlin has held senior engineering and management positions at companies such...

Farzin Jahed is an Applications and Product Engineer at Statek, a manufacturer of custom crystals and oscillators. Previously, he was a Hardware Applications Engineer at Toshiba America Electronic Components, where he was till August 2003. He has over 22 years of experience in electronic industry, with...