Bill Eichen, Chief Executive Officer

Bill has over 20 years of experience in the consumer and IT semiconductor industry. Most recently, he was President and COO of Analogix Semiconductor, a leader in the consumer multimedia market that has shipped production volume to the HDMI and DisplayPort markets. Prior to Analogix, he was CEO of Memcall, a pioneer in the Layer 4-7 search market, and was founder and CEO for Nueba Semiconductor, a manufacturer of security processor ICs. Bill has a proven track record as an innovator, and has been responsible for a variety of management successes at Cypress Semiconductor, IDT, Zoran, Motorola, NEC, and TCSI. He is Chairman of Software Incubators, a wireless client/server financial applications corporation. Bill holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

George Hsu, Founder and CTO

George is the founder and CTO of Sensor Platforms and has focused his 17 year career on the sensor industry, having invented several breakthrough sensor technologies, including the Magneto-Inductive magnetometer sensor which is the mainstay of today's electronic compassing in both the automotive and consumer markets. George is dedicated to accelerating the growth and success of the sensor industry by providing standard, application-specific, and custom sensor interface ICs. He is a graduate of Stanford University School of Engineering and a much-published author of technical articles on sensor theory, design and applications.

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.

Don Wile, VP of Engineering

Don has 30 years of successful technical and managerial experience in the semiconductor industry. Don has developed numerous breakthroughs in circuit design spanning both consumer and industrial applications. Most recently, he led the analog design efforts at Nuelight, an innovator in OLED sensors. Prior to that, he was Director of Analog Design at Pixim, developing high dynamic range image sensors. As employee number 7 at Tripath Technology, Don was Vice President of Engineering responsible for power electronics and DSL line drivers. He participated in taking Tripath public. Don's background also includes 17 years at National Semiconductor, where he put many high volume mixed-signal and analog products into production including National's Mass Storage pre-amplifier business. Don holds numerous analog design patents including AM/FM radio circuits, disk drive read channels, gm/C filters, disk drive servo detectors, power management, current sense memory read out, and low noise oscillators. Don received his BSEE from Cornell University and his MSEE from University of California Berkeley.

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.

Kevin A. Shaw, Ph.D., Director, Navigation Architecture

Kevin has over 16 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 business unit. After being acquired by Calient Optical Components, Kevin was responsible for the development of its 382 mirror MEMS optical switch and defining new markets for its switching business. He is a prolific inventor having earned 22 U.S. patents in the field of MEMS. Kevin holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and earned his Doctorate at Cornell University for his developments in MEMS and IC integration methodologies. Kevin also holds a M.Sc. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University where he was awarded the title of Stanford Sloan Fellow.