CISES Advisory Board
JY Zhang
JingYang Zhang is Founder, Chairman and CEO of MooreElite since 2015. MooreElite is a leading IC Ecosystem company providing “IC design service, supply chain management, talent service”, with mission of “Make IC Design Easy & Efficient”. Mr. Zhang is a Member of Pudong Youth Federation, Pudong Top Ten Outstanding Young Entrepreneurs and Vice President of Southeast University IC Alumni Association.
Mr. Zhang started his career as RFIC Designer of Institute of RF-&OE-ICs; he then joined IBM Microelectronics as Foundry Technical Solution AP Team Lead and moved into IBM Foundry BD Manager. Mr. Zhang was Senior Manager of SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) from 2013 to 2014; Director of Business Development at Shanghai Industrial Technology Research Institute from 2014 to June 2015.
Mr. Zhang holds an M.S. EE from Southeast University, and EMBA of Economics and Management from Tsinghua University.
MooreElite
“MooreElite” under the brand of MooreElite Integrated Circuit Industry Development (Hefei) Co., Ltd. is a leading IC design accelerator, providing IC design service, supply chain management, talent services and enterprise services for over 1500 fabless and 500,000 semiconductor professionals. Our mission is “Make IC Design Easy & Efficient”. We are committed to providing ASIC design and Turnkey solutions, from Spec/FPGA/Algorithm to chip delivery, including chip architecture planning, IP selection, front-end design, DFT, digital verification, physical design, layout, tape out, packaging and testing services to help our customer succeed in the market. Since 2012, our team has been serving customers with knowledge of how to get the most out of silicon, offering flexible service models such as Turnkey, NRE, consulting and onsite support. Head-quartered in Shanghai, China, MooreElite has over 300 employees worldwide, with offices in Beijing, Shenzhen, Hefei, Chongqing, Suzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Xi’an, Nanjing, Xiamen, Hsinchu and San Jose.
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.