Steven Nasiri is the founder of InvenSense and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman since our inception in 2003. Prior to founding InvenSense, Mr. Nasiri held various positions as a co-founder and executive of several MEMS companies, including SenSym (acquired by Honeywell), NovaSensor (acquired by General Electric), Integrated Sensor Solutions (acquired by Texas Instruments) and ISS-Nagano GmbH. He also held key management and operations positions at several semiconductor companies, including National Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor and Maxim Integrated Products. Mr. Nasiri is an inventor in over 50 patents and patent applications, and has authored many published papers and articles on MEMS technology.
Mr. Nasiri earned an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from San Jose State University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Alan Krock serves as our Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining InvenSense in 2011, Mr. Krock served as the Chief Financial Officer of Beceem Communications, Inc. from January 2010 until January 2011, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PMC-Sierra, Inc. from November 2002 until March 2007, Vice President of Corporate Affairs for PMC-Sierra, Inc. from March 2007 until March 2008, and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Integrated Device Technology, Inc. from January 1998 until November 2002. Mr Krock has been a member of the board of directors of Netlogic Microsystems Inc. since 2005.
Mr. Krock received his B.S. in Accounting and Finance from the University of California, Berkley School of Business, and is a California Certified Public Accountant.
Stephen Lloyd has been our Vice President of Engineering since December 2008. Prior to joining InvenSense, he worked at several semiconductor companies, including service from 2007 to 2008 as the Vice President of Engineering at Beceem Communications, service from 2004 to 2007 as Vice President of Engineering for RF Microelectronics and service from 2002 to 2004 as Director of Engineering for Skyworks Solutions. He also served as an Executive Director of Conexant Systems from 1997 to 2002.
Mr. Lloyd received his B.S. in Electronic Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Daniel Goehl joined us in 2004 as our Director of Business Development and became our Vice President of Sales in March 2007. Prior to joining InvenSense, Mr. Goehl held senior management positions and led sales and business development initiatives at start-up companies in semiconductor and wireless technology markets such as Nazomi Communications, CSI Wireless, Meridian Wireless and Omni Telecommunications.
Mr. Goehl has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Illinois and attended Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan for International Business and Japanese language studies.
Ram Krishnan, Ph.D. has been our Vice President of Operations since April 2007. Prior to joining InvenSense, he served as Vice President and General Manager of the Fiber Optics Division at Agilent Technologies, a diagnostic instrument and sensor manufacturer, from December 2005 to February 2007, and as Vice President of Operations at Avago Technologies, a semiconductor company, from March 2005 to December 2005. In addition, Dr. Krishnan has held numerous executive and management positions related to high-volume production and manufacturing of high-volume electronic products, including serving as Vice President of Operations at LuxN (acquired by Zhone Technologies), an optical network company, and as Vice President, Process and Quality Engineering at Bloom Energy (formerly Ion America), a fuel cell company.
Dr. Krishnan received his B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, his M.S. from Duke University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Mechanical Engineering.
