Jeff Thomas Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Extel Technologies Jeff joined Extel Technologies (Extel) in 2013 as Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer and has been instrumental in growing Extel’s global product development and manufacturing portfolio. His career…
Rory Moore
Rory Moore was the seed round investor, co-founder of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: PSMI), one of the world’s leading providers of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for the wireless communications and aerospace markets. Peregrine ships millions of chips every week…
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Vice Admiral Walter Davis
Vice Admiral Walter J. Davis, USN (Ret) was Navy N6, Director Space systems, Information Warfare systems, Command and Control Systems, and Modeling and Simulation where he directed Navy’s $3.5B IT budget. He is former VP for Business Development at GDE…
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Marco Thompson
Thompson co-founded & ran CommNexus San Diego, (formerly San Diego Telecom Council) a non-profit network of communications, government, and defense industry companies. A familiar face in the boardrooms of a number of innovative San Diego concerns, Thompson will call on…
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Ron Melanson
Ron Melanson serves as Chief Engineer & Operations for EvoNexus Silicon Valley. He previously served as Vice President of Engineering and managed the Hardware Quality Office at Oracle Corp. As VP of Engineering, he was responsible for Hardware Central Engineering,…
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Ziad Mansour
Ziad Mansour serves as Chief Engineer of EvoNexus in Southern California. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Engineering leading the Digital Hardware group in Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) division. In this role, Mansour provided technical and management leadership…
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Rich Stewart
Rich Stewart is a System on a Chip (SoC) engineering subject matter expert with extensive experience in technical management, innovation, and product commercialization. Rich possesses a strong track record developing efficient, practical and cost-effective processes, in addition to a strong track record of onetime product delivery.…
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Andy Ballester
Andy Ballester was a co-founder of GoFundMe. We are changing the way the world gives. Every day, members of our giving community come together to support one another and the causes they care about most. Our campaign organizers have raised…
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Charles Bergan
Charles leads the software department for Qualcomm Research. He also oversees Qualcomm Research’s robotics program. While at Qualcomm, he has been involved in the research and development of most of the modern cellular radio standards, including CDMA, UMTS, UMB and…
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Greg Bohdan
Greg has 26 years of hands-on, in-the-trenches experience starting, financing, operating and building successful venture-backed tech companies in San Diego. He’s grown companies from inception (co-founding two of them) to 300 employees, and in the process raised nearly $300 million…
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