Dan Brown, Chief Executive Officer

Dan brings strong technology and operational expertise to Sensor Platforms. He was most recently CEO of OnSite Systems where he successfully doubled revenue and sold the company in December of 07. Prior to that Dan was Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Product Management, at Centerpoint Broadband Technologies, a leader in optical DWDM gear. Dan held a similar role at MAYAN Networks, an optical edge switch manufacturer, serving as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. From the enterprise perspective, Dan led the development of network infrastructure and customer solutions as Vice President of Engineering at FirstWorld Communications, a Denver-based CLEC. Mr. Brown has held other high level and technical management positions, such as Director of ATM Engineering at 3Com's Global Design Center, where he was tasked with helping to design some of the largest private networks in the U.S., for such clients as Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers. Dan began his career at British Telecom where he held several positions, including manager of the Global Data Operations Center. He continues to be a Technology Partner at Arrowpath Ventures.

Bill Thomas, EVP, Sales, Marketing, Business Development

Bill was most recently CEO at Gigafin Networks, a producer of Gigabit Network Appliances. Bill has over 30 years of sales experience in the semiconductor industry. He has served as Vice President of world wide Sales at Summit Micro. He was Vice President of World Wide Sales for QED from 1996 through its successful IPO and then acquisition by PMC Sierra. Bill's extensive sales background also includes positions at Sierra Semiconductor Corporation, AMD and AMCC. Bill holds a BSEE from the University of Florida.

Kevin A. Shaw, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer

Kevin has over 19 years experience in the sensor and MEMS market. He was employee number 3 at Kionix, a leader in motion sensors and accelerometers, and was integral in establishing its MEMS inertial sensor and wafer-scale hermetic sealing operations. At Calient Optical Components, Kevin was critical in the development of its 382 mirror MEMS optical switch and defining new markets for its switching business. He is a prolific inventor having earned 24 U.S. patents in the fields of MEMS and inertial navigation. He is also an entrepreneur having cofounded and sold Ironwood Technologies, a company in the railroad technology sector. Kevin holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and has earned a Doctorate from Cornell University for developments in MEMS and MEMS/IC integration methodologies. Kevin also holds a Masters from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University where he is a Stanford Sloan Fellow.

Jim Steele, Ph.D., VP of Engineering

Jim has over 15 years of experience in semiconductors and software development. Prior to joining Sensor Platforms, he has held Director of Product Development positions at Spansion and Polaris Wireless. Jim’s experience also includes engineering management at ArrayComm and a research position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a Ph.D. in physics from SUNY Stony Brook.

Ian Chen, Executive Vice President

Ian has 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry where he held senior engineering and marketing leadership positions at Mobius Microsystems, Analogix Semiconductor, Cypress, IC Works, National Semiconductor, and Texas Instruments. His responsibilities have included consumer ICs, clock chips, graphics, networking, core logic chip sets, and microprocessors. Ian received Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds seven patents.

David Huffman, Director of Analog Engineering

DDave has more than 20 years of successful technical and managerial experience in the semiconductor industry. Dave has developed numerous breakthroughs in circuit design spanning both consumer and industrial applications. Most recently, Dave led the ADSL2+ linedriver effort at Tripath Technology which generated significant sales for the company. Prior to Tripath, he was a senior research engineer at The MicroDisplay Corporation developing miniature LCOS displays and sophisticated low-power analog driver circuitry for those displays. Dave's tenure also includes senior positions with Tseng Labs, a maker of video graphics controllers, Integrated Circuit Systems (later acquired by IDT) and General Electric's Astrospace Division where he developed flight hardware for the NavStar and GPS satellite programs. Dave received his BSEE from Villanova University and his MSEE from Lehigh University.

Stephen Cradock, Director of SoC Engineering

Stephen has over 15 years experience working with complex SoC, DSP systems and software development. He worked for 12 years at Negecell/Standard Telecom where he successfully led the ASIC development of 2G (GSM) and 2.5G (GPRS) baseband chipsets which featured multiple processing blocks and serial IO. He was responsible for the DSP firmware which featured the mobile channel equalizer and speech codecs. Stephen managed the technical relationships between Negecell and Macronix America. Stephen began his career at Massana (acquired by LSI Logic) designing video codecs. He received both his BSEE and MSEE from University College, Dublin, Ireland.

John Tingleff, Chief Financial Officer

John has 20 years experience in the financial and operations management of early stage technology companies. Prior to joining Sensor Platforms, John was CFO of Ceon Corporation where he led the successful restructuring of this OSS software company. After restructuring, Ceon became the dominant supplier of provisioning and activation systems to the cable TV industry for Internet and IP phone access. Previously he served as CFO of Mayan Networks, a telecommunications, multi-service provisioning platform provider. At Mayan Networks, John raised $90 million in equity from top tier venture capitalists and $75 million in convertible debt led by Fidelity. John has also been a Partner with Technology Funding, a venture capital firm. He holds an MA and BA in Economics from San Francisco State University.