APOGEE SEMICONDUCTOR™

Anton has 12+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry and over 7 years in the Aerospace and Defense industry. Anton has held various management positions at Cobham Advanced Electronics Solutions and at Texas Instruments.

As the Director of Systems and Development Engineering at Cobham, he managed the single board computer product line and was instrumental in crafting and executing new product development strategies.

Anton also held various roles at Texas Instruments (TI) including Marketing and Business Development Manager for the High Reliability product line where he was responsible for managing the product development and marketing strategy. Anton also has extensive sales experience managing worldwide accounts. Anton has a proven track record of recruiting and managing top talent, managing products throughout their lifecycle and business development. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Florida with Bachelors in Electrical Engineering.

Mark has 12+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry and more than 10 years dedicated to architecting and designing integrated circuits for the Aerospace and Defense industry. Mark has held positions in product and test engineering and most recently in analog integrated circuit design at Texas Instruments.

During his tenure, Mark was responsible for architecting, designing, and testing integrated solutions for the space, medical, and industrial markets with a majority of the time focused on power electronics. Complementing his experience in design, he has years of experience in developing high voltage power transistors and improving existing semiconductor processes for the space environment. Mark also has more than 6 years of experience conducting heavy ion testing at multiple heavy ion test facilities.

Prior to working at TI, Mark served 5 years in the U.S. Navy’s Trident Submarine Program. Mark holds a Masters and Bachelors (Magna Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University.

Imelda (Emily) has over 35 years of experience in the development of semiconductor process technologies. During her 29-year career at Texas Instruments, she worked in the Defense Group on improving radiation hardness and lowering 1/f noise in silicon readout ICs (ROICs) for infrared detectors.

Imelda has an extensive knowledge of digital and analog processes and was the manager of TI’s analog technology international transfer team, which was responsible for successfully transferring advanced analog processes to internal and external manufacturing sites.

Upon retiring from TI, she founded TallannQuest, providing consulting on technology issues and radiation hardening. Imelda holds an M.Sc in Electronic Materials and Devices, Greenwich University, London, England through a student co-op program with General Electric. Imelda is the inventor or co-inventor of 6 issued US patents and author of 10 publications and conference presentations.

Dr. Robbins has 37 years of experience in the semiconductor and technology industries, and has held a variety of management and executive roles. He is currently President of Xtendwave, a fabless semiconductor company producing communications ICs.

As a Vice President at Texas Instruments, he managed manufacturing operations for TI’s analog and mixed-signal products, including responsibilities over multiple fabrication facilities for high-performance mixed-signal ICs.

Dr. Robbins has been involved at various early-stage technology companies as an entrepreneur and has demonstrated success in recruiting talent, defining products and technologies and managing companies’ operations. He holds a Ph.D. in solid state physics, and has five issued U.S. patents.

Oren Eliezer Ph.D. has over 25 years of military, industry and entrepreneurial experience related with the development and deployment of wireless communication systems, and with the design and productization of low-cost wireless digital transceiver system-on-chip (SoC) solutions.

Oren has a Ph.D. in microelectronics, and Cofounded Butterfly Communications which was later acquired by Texas Instruments. Oren has authored over 50 journal/conference papers and over 40 patents.

Ashleigh graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.S. in Physics. As an undergraduate, she interned at JPL with the Radiation Effects group researching the effects of TID on MOSFETs under the guidance of Dr. Leif Sheick.

Ashleigh also interned with Tallannquest LLC for a year conducting research on a variety of rad-hard MOSFET designs and was hired on full-time after graduation.