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Advisory Board
Jonathan (Jed) Dorsheimer
Jed Dorsheimer serves as a Principal, Sr. Analyst in the Equity Research Group at Canaccord Adams, a leading independent investment bank committed to fostering the entrepreneurial spirit. Jed is a respected Solid State Lighting industry expert who is well known for his contributions at leading industry conferences and as a frequent guest on CNBC. By leveraging his knowledge of compound semiconductors and device physics, Jed has become known for his ability to identify emerging trends such as Solid State Lighting. In 2006, Forbes Magazine ranked Jed at #1 out of 105 for stock picking performance in Semiconductors and Semiconductor Capital Equipment. Jed is active on the advisory boards of various technology and solid-state lighting companies, in addition to serving as an advisor to the William J. Clinton Foundation’s Climate Initiative focused on reducing Greenhouse gas emissions. Jed graduated from Bentley College with a B.S. in Finance and has attended classes at both Harvard University and Boston University's School of Engineering in the fields of mixed signal circuit design and materials sciences.
Professor Chenming Calvin Hu
Dr. Chenming Hu is the TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1976. From 2001 to 2004 he was the CTO of TSMC. He was the founding chairman of Celestry Design Technologies until its acquisition by Cadence Design Systems in 2003. Dr. Hu is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and of Academia Sinica (Taiwan), a fellow of IEEE, a fellow of the Institute of Physics, and an honorary professor of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, and of Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. IEEE awarded him the 2002 Solid State Circuits Award for developing BSIM, the international standard SPICE model of MOSFETs, and the 1997 Jack A. Morton Award for his contributions to transistor reliability. He is noted for developing the FinFET transistor structure in 1998 that has since reset the record of transistor miniaturization several times and is expected to enable the scaling of transistors beyond 10nm. He also received UC Berkeley’s highest honor for teaching – the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Hu received his B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in electrical engineering.
Dr. Nety Krishna
Dr. Krishna's role at Applied Materials, in the Advanced Technology Group of the CTO Office, is to develop new capabilities for devices and applications in the IC sector; to investigate the technologies required for high volume manufacturing in the Energy & Environmental sectors; and to develop the foundation of emerging nanotechnology concepts that could play a key role as the future engineered materials of choice. Formerly, Nety was Director of the Key Account Technology group, where he built and managed a team to successfully define, transfer and implement metal deposition solutions to customers worldwide. He has extensive experience in all aspects of metal deposition and process integration including PVD, CVD, ALD and ECP. Prior to joining Applied Materials, Nety was based at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center for six years as a research scientist working on experiments to understand the origins of the early universe. Nety received his MSc(Physics) degree from IIT Kanpur, India and his MS and PhD degrees in Particle Physics from Rice University.
John C. Lindgren
Mr. Lindgren is the President and CEO, and a Director, of MOSAID Technologies, one of Canada's leading intellectual property development companies. Prior to joining MOSAID, John spent 20 years with Texas Instruments (TI), one of the world's most renowned semiconductor companies. In his last position at TI, John was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, responsible for company-wide legal issues for Asia Pacific and Japan, as well as global trade compliance legal issues. He also held primary responsibility for TI's ADSL patent licensing program, heading a team of 28 lawyers that provided legal counsel to TI's Application Specific Products group.. Prior to that, John served for two years as Senior Regional Counsel for TI's Japanese subsidiary, based in Tokyo. Earlier in his career, he served as Legal Counsel focused on patent licensing, litigation, and prosecution. John holds a Juris Doctorate from Southern Methodist University School of Law; a M.Sc. Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University; and a B.Sc. Electrical Engineering from Duke University. He is former chair of the Intellectual Property subcommittee of the Semiconductor Industry Association and is currently Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee for the Center for American and International Law.