CISES Advisory Board
Jennifer Zhao
Jennifer Zhao joined ams as EVP and GM for Advanced Optical Sensors Division in 2017. She served as SVP, Global Sales and Marketing at Nexperia and held multiple management positions at NXP Semiconductors and Tyco International before that. Jennifer has managed various businesses including System Management, Logic and Microcontrollers and worked with leading OEM’s worldwide in Mobile and Consumer, Automotive and Industrial segments. Currently Jennifer manages a global team with R&D, Operations, Marketing and Application resources in US, Europe, Greater China and South East Asia.
Jennifer Zhao于2017年加入艾迈斯半导体，担任全球先进光学传感器部门的执行副总裁兼总经理。她曾出任Nexperia全球销售与营销部高级副总裁，并曾在恩智浦半导体和Tyco International担任多个管理职位。Jennifer曾负责运营管理多个事业部，包括系统管理、逻辑和微控制器，并与全球领先的移动和消费电子、汽车和工业领域OEM深入合作。目前，Jennifer管理着艾迈斯半导体先进光学传感器事业部在美国、欧洲、大中华区和东南亚的研发、运营、营销和应用资源的全球团队。
ams
ams is a global leader in the design and manufacture of advanced sensor solutions. Our mission is to shape the world with sensor solutions by providing a seamless interface between humans and technology. ams’ high-performance sensor solutions drive applications requiring small form factor, low power, highest sensitivity and multi-sensor integration. Products include sensor solutions, sensor ICs, interfaces and related software for consumer, communications, industrial, medical, and automotive markets. With headquarters in Austria, ams employs about 9,000 people globally and serves more than 8,000 customers worldwide.
Leading manufacturers around the globe rely on ams’ sensing know-how for advanced systems design. For ams, “Sensing is Life” and our passion is in creating the sensor solutions that make devices smarter, safer, convenient and more environment-friendly. ams’ sensor solutions are at the heart of the products and technologies that define our world today –from smartphones and mobile devices to smart homes and buildings, industrial automation, medical technology, and connected vehicles. Our products drive applications requiring small form factor, low power, highest sensitivity and multi-sensor integration. We offer sensors (including optical sensors), interfaces and related software for consumer, communications, industrial, medical, and automotive markets.
Mustafa Pinarbasi is the CTO and Sr. Vice President of Magnetics Technology at Spin Memory (Previously Spin Transfer Technologies). Before joining Spin Memory in 2013, Dr. Pinarbasi was a CTO and SVP of Technology Development at SoloPower, Advanced Technology Department Manager at Hitachi GST and Distinguished Engineer at IBM. His accomplishments at IBM include the development of the giant magneto-resistance sensor used in the first GMR-based hard disk drives (HDD) and pioneering the adoption of ion beam sputtering technology into the read sensor production. He led the development of tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) read head processing at Hitachi GST and the development of flexible and light weight solar panels at SoloPower. Dr. Pinarbasi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an inventor with over 200 U.S. patents, has authored or co-authored over 30 scientific publications and has received numerous industry awards.
Mr. Ning Chen used to work in the mobile communication industry in Japan for long years. After joined Panasonic in 2003, he has been engaged in the development of advanced sensor solutions for smart systems. He is now the Director of China Technology Center of Industrial Solutions Company.
Ron, who joined CNW in early 2013 after over a decade at DHL, sees himself as customer-centric. He is available day and night to listen and help customers realize that CNW is their most reliable special logistics partner. Ron believes in open communications and making it easy for them to approach CNW with urgent and emergency shipping challenges, no matter how complicated.</span>
Hermann Waltl is currently the executive sales and customer support director for EV Group (EVG). In this role, he is responsible for overseeing EVG’s worldwide sales operations across all of the company’s product lines and key markets including Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Waltl joined EV Group in 2002 as a sales operations manager where he was responsible for all aspects of worldwide contract management and sales administration for three years.
Julio Coppo is currently serving the role of Vice President of Sales and Strategic Business Development for Nanotronics, a technology company that builds robotic, artificially intelligent industrial grade microscopes, including nSpec® and nSpec® 3D. nSpec®’s highly customizable software and hardware, enables these products to serve the semiconductor, material sciences, rubber, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Julio joined Nanotronics in the Fall of 2016 and he oversees the global sales and customer outreach team.
Mario Morales is the program vice president of IDC’s enabling technologies, storage, and semiconductor research. He is responsible for in-depth analysis, evaluation of emerging markets and trends, forecasting, and research of major semiconductor industry segments such as embedded and intelligent systems, wireless, personal computing, networking and cloud infrastructure, automotive electronics, and consumer.