Experienced entrepreneur, with international R&D operations management and business development experience. His previous company was a drug discovery venture merged with an Australian biotech, recently ended with a cash sale to Gilead for $0.5B; Successful market planning for launch of a multimillion dollar analytical product in the petrochemical industry. Author, Awardee of successful businessperson award - 'Top 40 in Capital Region NY

Dr. Kulkarni is an experienced engineering leader with proven track record in materials, process development and quality manufacturing systems, and has brought many successful products from concept to commercialization. He has been with industry-leading companies like Asia Brown Boveri and AVX Corporation. Through his long tenure at AVX, from R&D to product development to business manager, he developed many new materials, devices, and processes.

>30 years of experience in executive management, product development and product design at some of the world’s leading semiconductor companies including MAXIM, TI, Benchmarq and Sharp. At MAXIM Integrated Products he had P&L responsibility for three product lines with cumulative annual revenue of $122M. He has won awards for product development in the fields of battery management, consumer, and industrial instrumentation.

Mike Leiber has over 25 years in sales/sales management and business development in the electronics components industry, selling into both the Americas and Asian Markets. He has established channel partnerships across all geographies for automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, military, medical, transportation and UPS applications.