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.
Mark Voll has been our Chief Financial Officer since June 2010. Prior to joining InvenSense, he served as Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer at Techwell, Inc., a mixed-signal video solutions semiconductor company, from November 2005 to June 2010. From December 2004 to July 2005, Mr. Voll served as the interim Chief Executive Officer of Monolithic System Technology, Inc., a semiconductor intellectual property licensing company. From June 2002 to November 2005, Mr. Voll served as Chief Financial Officer at Monolithic System Technology, Inc.
Mr. Voll holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Providence College.
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.
Jengyaw “Joseph” Jiang joined us in 2007 as our Vice President of Marketing, became our Vice President of Business Development in 2008, and has been Vice President of our Handheld Business Unit since June 2009. Prior to joining InvenSense, Mr. Jiang founded Mobilic Technology, a semiconductor company, and served as its Chief Executive Officer from November 2003 until March 2007. From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Jiang was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at IC Media Technology, a CMOS image sensor company. In addition, Mr. Jiang has held numerous senior management positions related to marketing and sales in the semiconductor industry at other companies, including NeoParadigm Labs, Applied Materials and Cadence Design Systems.
Mr. Jiang has a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in HsinChu, Taiwan and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University.
Michael Maia has been Vice President of our Gaming and 3D User Interface Business Unit since December 2008. Prior to joining InvenSense, from September 2007 to May 2008, he served as Vice President Marketing and Business Development for Mosys, Inc., a memory and high speed-interface company. In 1999, Mr. Maia founded PortalPlayer, a fabless semiconductor company, where he served in various roles, including Vice President Sales and Marketing and General Manager, until February 2007. Prior to founding PortalPlayer, he served in various management positions at several semiconductor companies, including National Semiconductor, Cirrus Logic and Trident Microsystems.
Mr. Maia has an M.B.A. from St. Mary’s College of California and a B.S. from San Francisco State University.
