Women’s Leadership Council

Debra Bell

VP of DRAM Product Engineering Group

Micron Technology

Debra holds the position of Vice President of Micron’s DRAM Product Engineering Group at Micron Technology and leads the worldwide DRAM product engineering team to develop the latest DRAM mobile and compute solutions. She joined Micron Technology in 2000 as a Product Engineer working on first-generation DDR1. She has since worked on various DDR SDRAM and NAND products as a Product Engineer and a Designer. Debra has been an active member in many engineering and manufacturing technical communities such as Micron’s prestigious Technical Leadership Program and has held several managerial leadership roles including a two-year assignment in Japan and is on assignment now in Taiwan. She is recognized as a leading innovator at Micron with 55 US Patents as well as many new technical processes and improvements. She is known at Micron as a key ambassador for Innovation and Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion, serving in several Employee Resource Group and often speaks at technical forums and team member leadership forums.

Debra received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University in 2000 and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Technological University in 2005. She and her wife just celebrated their 10 year anniversary and enjoy travel and discovering new foods.

Dr. Alexis Bjorlin

VP/GM DGX Cloud

NVIDIA

Alexis is VP/GM, DGX Cloud at Nvidia. She also currently serves on the board of directors at Digital Realty [NYSE:DLR], Astera Labs, and Global Semiconductor Association (GSA). Prior to Nvidia, Alexis was VP, Infrastructure at Meta where her team was responsible for Infrastructure hardware/software co-designed systems, including AI Systems, compute and storage platforms, and custom Silicon. Prior to Meta, she served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom Optical Systems Division and previously Corporate Vice President of the Data Center Group and General Manager of the Connectivity Group at Intel where she oversaw three business units: Ethernet/Networking, High Performance Computing fabrics, and Silicon Photonics. Prior to Intel, she spent eight years as President of Source Photonics, where she also served on the board of directors. She earned a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Rani Borkar

Microsoft

Corporate VP, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure

Rani Borkar is the Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure. In her role, Borkar leads the core organizations building Microsoft’s leading cloud computing platform—from silicon, systems, to supply chain.

Throughout her career, Borkar has established herself as a pioneering hardware engineer in the semiconductor industry, a technology executive, product visionary, and trusted leader with decades of experience in the computing industry. She is passionate about delivering end-to-end solutions to empower customers to achieve more.

Since joining Microsoft, Borkar has been instrumental in strengthening Azure’s place as the industry-leading cloud computing platform. Currently, Azure is the global leader in enterprise cloud computing, as it serves more than 95% of the Fortune 500.

As the head of Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure, she strengthens Microsoft’s deeply integrated Azure cloud services, technology roadmap, and research and development efforts. She is responsible for the vision, strategy, and architecture of silicon development, cloud supply chain as well as global capacity deployment for Microsoft’s cloud data center infrastructure. Under her leadership, Microsoft’s brightest engineering minds focus on developing technologies that will solve the world’s toughest problems and drive end-to-end business value for Azure’s products and solutions.

Before joining Microsoft, Borkar served as the Vice President of OpenPOWER Development at IBM. Prior to IBM, Borkar spent most of her career at Intel. As Corporate Vice President, she led Intel’s silicon product development strategy while leading large, complex, and diverse global engineering organizations that developed world-class microprocessors for Intel servers, PCs, phones, tablets, and the Internet of Things.

Leading with the philosophy of “mission first, people always,” Borkar has inspired and transformed organizations by building close-knit communities. To produce great technology, Borkar believes in the power of combining technology assets and engineering talent with the values of collaboration and mentorship to empower teams to achieve more and move the industry forward.

Borkar is actively involved in the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), where she serves on the board of directors and as a Champion of Women Sponsor for the GSA Women’s Leadership Council. She is also on the board of directors of Applied Materials. Borkar also serves on the Board of Trustees at Oregon State University to help guide the state’s effort to advance economic development and innovation.

Borkar earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree—both in physics—from the University of Mumbai, India. She went on to earn a second master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute. Borkar also holds an Executive Program in Leadership (LEAD) certificate from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Tali Chen

CEO

Solcon-IGEL

Tali brings nearly two decades of executive management experience as a strong voice in the semiconductor industry. With a keen ability to multitask, strategize and oversee worldwide teams and customers, she lends her expertise and passion to her position as Chief Business Officer, where she manages also the IoT business line, heads up DSP Group’s US operations and corporate management. Prior to this role, she has been the Chief Marketing Officer and CVP Corporate Development. Before joining DSP Group, Tali was Director of Commercial Legal Affairs at RADA Electronic Industries, a Major in the Israeli Defense Forces, the founding manager of the “Atidim for Industry” program, and an intern at the IDF Ombudsman’s office. Tali holds an LLB in Law and Government with honors from the prestigious Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) of Herzliya and an MBA from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Ruth Cotter

SVP, Marketing, Communications and Human Resources

AMD

Ruth Cotter is senior vice president at AMD where she oversees Marketing, Communications and Human Resources. In this unique role, Ruth is responsible for unifying and aligning AMD’s brand, people and strategy for success. With more than 25 years of experience, Ruth’s leadership has been instrumental in helping the company scale during hypergrowth and is guided by thoughtful policy and planning.

Under Ruth’s leadership, the IR team led a proactive investor outreach campaign that resulted in AMD being among the best performing stocks on the S&P 500 from 2018-2020. With nearly 3x industry leading revenue growth over the past five years, she supported the marketing team scaling our marketing programs while continuing to increase brand awareness. In that same timeframe, she led the HR team through doubling the workforce size and supported onboarding those employees with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion through improved company policies, benefits and community engagement. This focus on inclusion established AMD’s Multi-Voice culture – an inclusive, learning and innovative workplace culture – that is at the heart of what makes AMD stand out from its competition. This effort has landed AMD on Bloomberg’s 2022 Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index and Forbes Magazine’s list of America’s Most JUST Companies.

Ruth most recently led AMD’s Integration Planning Office as the company successfully completed its acquisition of Xilinx. Her responsibility included end-to-end planning and seamless Day One experience to ensure integration occurred as smoothly and efficiently as possible while maintaining significant growth trajectories of both AMD and Xilinx.

Since 2020, she’s led a multi-disciplinary COVID-19 team tasked with ensuring safety and productivity while providing additional support to AMD’s global employees facing business and personal disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Ruth is the recipient of Technology Magazine Top 100 Women in Technology recognition in 2021 and the National Diversity Council’s 2020 Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech award. Ruth has been honored with the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) Hall of Fame Inductee, received a Women Worth Watching Award® from Profiles of Diversity Journal and was named a Top 10 Champion of Global Diversity by Diversity Global Magazine.

Barbara Cramer

Group Director in Sales Operations

Cadence Systems

Barbara Cramer is a Group Director within the Sales Operations function of Cadence responsible for sales integration of mergers and acquisitions and developing innovative business models. She joined Cadence in 2016 to lead the business development efforts of Cadence’s largest research and development business unit, responsible for the custom and analog IC design platform. She was responsible for the execution of worldwide sales campaigns resulting in a 20% increase in annual product line revenue. In her 25 years of experience in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) market, she has held a variety of sales management and business development roles partnering with customers on solutions to bring efficiency to their design processes across a variety of markets, including military and aerospace, hyper-scale computing, medical devices, and consumer electronics. Before joining Cadence, Barbara spent over eleven years at Mentor Graphics, where she was a regional sales director responsible for over $150M in annual contracts. Barbara graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds an Executive Certificate in Negotiation from the Harvard School of Business.

Barbara is passionate about mentoring the next generation of engineers. She serves as a member of the Board of Advisors for the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa. She co-chairs the Industrial Strategic Partners Committee responsible for LEaPP Academy certification. Additionally, she leads the Intern and New College Graduate programs at Cadence and is the North American Chair of the Women of WFO Inclusion Group, where she has served as a mentor for the past four years. Outside of work, she enjoys volunteering, traveling with her children, and cooking.

Weili Dai

Co-Founder, President and Vice Chairwoman

FLC Global

Weili Dai is one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the world. Widely considered a technology visionary, she is the only woman co-founder of a global semiconductor company, and since it began in 1995, she helped Marvell’s rise to become one of the top semiconductor companies in the world. Ms. Dai’s business acumen, strategic thinking, product leadership, endless passion and personal network have contributed greatly to Marvell’s fast rise to success. Her close relationship with her customers and the foundation of the trust shared with them has given her a strong reputation for professionalism and integrity throughout the technology industry. Ms. Dai has served a pivotal role in creating some of the Marvell’s most important strategic partnerships and under her leadership Marvell’s technology has become an integral component of many of the world’s most important products in enterprise, communications, mobile computing, consumer and emerging markets. She has been a driving force in expanding access to technology in the developing world and an ambassador of opportunity between the US and China, particularly in the arenas of education and green technology. Ms. Dai has become a powerful advocate for the better use of technology to improve the human condition.

For her contributions to technology and society, Newsweek named Ms. Dai one of the “150 Women Shake the World”. She was profiled by CNN International for the “Leading Women Series”, “Leading the Female Tech Charge”, “Leading Women Principles Fair and Care”, “Educating for Future Success”, and “Leading Women Inspire others”. Forbes Magazine listed Ms. Dai as one of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women”.

In 2013, the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) recognized Ms. Dai along with her husband Sehat Sutardja, Co-Founder and CEO of Marvell, with the prestigious 2013 Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. Ms. Dai and Dr. Sutardja were selected because of their exceptional success in creating Marvell, their individual contributions to today’s modern semiconductor age, as well as the talents and expertise they’ve continuously leveraged to address and overcome pressing global issues.

Ms. Dai is currently the Co-Founder, President and Vice Chairwoman of FLC Global. She is also the Chairwoman of Lark Technologies. She was the President and a member of board directors of Marvell from 2013 to 2016. Prior to that, Ms. Dai held a number of significant positions within Marvell since she co-founded the company in 1995: she served as Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President, and General Manager of the Communications Business Group. Ms. Dai holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Ms. Dai is an active philanthropist, led Marvell’s global civic engagements, including major partnership with the One Laptop Per Child program (OLPC). She served as a member of the executive committee for TechNet and Bay Area Council and sat on the board of the California Chamber of Commerce. She is also a board director of the disaster relief organization, Give2Asia, and was named to the prestigious Committee of 100, an organization representing the most-influential Chinese Americans. In recognition of their generosity, Sutardja Dai Hall at her alma mater UC Berkeley was named for Ms. Dai along with her husband Sehat Sutardja, who is currently the Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of FLC Global. Sutardja Dai Hall is home to the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). Celebrated as the glue behind her company, family and community, Ms. Dai is the proud mother of her two sons, Christopher and Nicholas who both received their Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Ms. Dai was selected as the first woman commencement speaker at the University of California, College of Engeering graduation ceremony on May 12, 2012.

Ritu Favre

Business Group President

Test & Measurement Business Group of Emerson

Ritu Favre leads the Test & Measurement Business Group at Emerson, where she is responsible for driving innovation and growth in the T&M market, along with executing Emerson’s strategy as an automation leader.

Favre is a seasoned high-tech industry leader with experience across general management and executive leadership roles in the RF and semiconductor industries. Most recently, she served as the chief executive officer of NEXT Biometrics. Prior to her role at NEXT, she helped build profitable businesses while holding senior management positions with market leaders such as Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, and Synaptics. She currently sits on the board of directors of Valmont Industries and is a former member of the board of directors at Cohu.

Favre received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.

Zehra Gozde Fidan

Director of RF Design Validation

Silicon Labs

Zehra Gozde Fidan is Director of RF Design Validation at Silicon Labs. She manages a global team of RF engineers focused on design validation of IoT products.

Gozde joined Silicon Labs in 2006 as an applications engineer in the Broadcast Audio group. From 2009 through 2013, she managed the Broadcast Audio applications engineering group focused on industry-leading tuner and demodulator products for consumer and automotive applications. Gozde joined the IoT team in 2013 as Senior Manager of Validation for MCU and Wireless products. In this role, she focused on the company’s highly successful wireless Gecko and proprietary solutions, working with a global team in the US, Norway, and Singapore.

Between 2014 and 2017 she worked at Intersil (Renesas), where she managed an infrastructure development team in charge of building a validation software framework that was standardized for the whole company. Gozde Fidan returned to Silicon Labs to create and lead the Systems Engineering group in 2017 where she managed system definition and product development for the company’s precision timing products including wireless clocks, oscillators; and IEEE1588 Synchronization solutions. From 2018-2022 she managed systems, validation, Firmware and Software engineering teams in Timing products. She rejoined the IoT team in 2022 as Director of RF Design Validation.

Gozde began her career in the Test & Measurement industry, first with Agilent Technologies (now Keysight), then moving to National Instruments. Her work over this six-year period focused on RF measurement systems such as network and spectrum analyzers.

Gozde Fidan earned her B.S.E.E. from Middle East Technical University in Turkey and her M.S.E.E. from Penn State in 2000, focused on radar and remote sensing applications.

Dr. Emel Goksu

Business Planning & Execution Lead

Meta, Infrastructure – AI Systems and Accelerated Platforms Group

Emel is a Business Planning & Execution Lead at Meta, Infrastructure – AI Systems and Accelerated Platforms Group. In her current role, she navigates seamlessly between business strategy and technical implementation cross-functionally to achieve company goals. Emel has a broad background in semiconductors, and prior to Meta, she has served in several roles at Intel including Chief of Staff in Silicon Engineering Group, Technical Program Management in Data Center Group, and Engineering Management & Process Engineering in Technology Development & Manufacturing Group. Throughout her career, Emel actively worked to create a supportive and empowering environment for women pursuing careers in engineering through mentorship, advocacy, and organizing events. Emel has published multiple technical articles in chemical engineering which have received hundreds of citations. She earned her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from University of California, Davis and BS & MS degrees from Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

Mouna El Khatib

Co-Founder, CEO & CTO

AONdevices

Mouna Elkhatib, the visionary CEO, CTO, and Co-Founder of AONDevices, Inc., has steered the company to a leading position in edge AI, specializing in speech, sound, and sensor fusion. Her groundbreaking work has forged significant partnerships with semiconductor giants.

Her prior accomplishments at Qualcomm and Conexant set industry benchmarks for audio solutions across diverse devices.

Mouna serves on the GSA Women’s Leadership Council, runs the WLI Entrepreneurial Committee and is a member of several industry organizations.

A graduate of ENSEM with portfolio of 22 patents, her technical brilliance continues to influence the Edge AI landscape.

Janice Hall

Executive VP and Chief Human Resources Officer

Marvell

Janice Hall is Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Marvell. In her role, Janice has worldwide responsibility for all aspects of HR including workforce engagement and organization effectiveness, total rewards, talent acquisition, learning and development, workforce data and analytics, and HR processes. Previously she served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources.

Prior to joining Marvell in 2017, Janice was the Global Vice President of HR for HGST (a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital) where she was responsible for all HR programs and services. She was also previously Senior Director, HR Strategy, Transformation and M&A at HGST. During her 11-year tenure at Sun Microsystems, Janice held various HR leadership roles in the areas of business partnership, HR operations, and HR strategy and transformation.

Lora Ho

Sr. Vice President of Human Resources

TSMC

Lora Ho is the Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC).

Ms. Ho joined TSMC in 1999 and worked as Corporate Controller before serving as Chief Financial Officer and Spokesperson from 2003 to 2019. And later she served as Senior Vice President, Europe and Asia Sales from 2019 to 2022. Also, Ms. Ho is the ESG Committee Chairperson since 2011.

Ms. Ho received numerous awards as the “Outstanding Financial Executive” by the Financial Executives Institute, the “Best Companies’ Best CFO” of Taiwan and Asia from 2007-2019 by FinanceAsia, and institutional investor magazine. She was also named as one of “Nine of the Most Influential Women in Asian Tech” by Nikkei Asian Review magazine in 2018.

Ms. Ho received her MBA degree from National Taiwan University and a B.A. degree from National Cheng-chi University.

Amber Huffman

Principal Engineer in Google Cloud

Google

Amber Huffman is a Principal Engineer in Google Cloud responsible for leading industry engagement efforts in the data center ecosystem across servers, storage, networking, accelerators, power, cooling, security, and more. Before joining Google, she spent 25 years at Intel serving as an Intel Fellow and VP. Amber is the President of NVM Express, on the Board of Directors for the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), on the Board of Directors for the Universal Chiplet Express Interconnect, and the chair of the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project. She has led numerous industry standards to successful adoption, including NVM Express, Open NAND Flash Interface, and Serial ATA.

Amber earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has been granted more than 20 patents in storage architecture. Amber is known as an inclusive leader and passionate mentor for technologists, including serving on the Global Semiconductor Alliance Women’s Leadership Council and the University of Michigan’s Computer Science & Engineering National Advisory Board.

Lalitha Immaneni

VP of Engineering in Assembly Test Technology Development

Intel Corporation

Lalitha Immaneni is a Vice President of Engineering in the Assembly Test Technology Development organization for Intel Corporation. Lalitha manages “Architecture, Design & Technology Solutions” team that spans multiple geographies (USA, Malaysia and India). She is responsible for substrate/silicon-assembly and board design rule development, designing building blocks for emerging package technologies, electrical and physical design methodologies for packaging, product package designs execution, product electrical analysis support and drives package product architectures for Intel. Lalitha owns a centralized package and board flows/tools and enables EDA eco system readiness for Intel’s packaging and board design needs. She owns architecture and design enabling services for Intel Foundry.

Lalitha is a global leader and role model with a stellar track record of 30 years of technical achievement in the high-tech industry in the areas of design tools development and package design process. Her technical achievements include leading Intel through two transitions in package design tools for efficiency and quality. Widely recognized among the packaging EDA suppliers, Immaneni is known for driving design tool capabilities for die disaggregation. She has led many “firsts,” including helping define the first industry EDA packaging tool, and leading package co-design for the first Foveros and EMIB products. She recently led Package Assembly Design Kit delivery for Intel foundry Services. She is currently focused on EDA eco system enablement, interoperable formats, and standards for chiplets.

Lalitha is a tireless champion of diversity and inclusion, mentoring and sponsoring diverse employees both in the U.S. and at Intel sites around the world. She is presently the Assembly Test Technology Development Staff-level Diversity & Inclusion team sponsor as well as a formal mentor, coach and sponsor to many technical females and diverse employees.

As a staunch believer of DEI initiatives, Immaneni volunteers extensively as a coach and mentor for Positive Paths, a non-profit organization serving women in Phoenix, and is a co-chair for the Intel Network of Executive Women (iNEW) and executive co-sponsor for the Intel Network of Intel African Ancestry (NIA).

Lalitha fosters a learning culture in her team and approaches all challenges with a “can do” attitude that transcends organizational boundaries with a focus on doing the right things for Intel as well as the industry. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Arizona State University with an emphasis on computer graphics & software engineering.

Vanitha Kumar

SVP, Engineering

Qualcomm

Vanitha Kumar is the Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Qualcomm Technologies Incorporated. Vanitha holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, and a Bachelor of Electronics & Communication Engineering degree from PSG College of Technology, India. Vanitha has 20 years of experience in the wireless telecommunications industry and in embedded software architecture, design, and development. She has also contributed actively to cellular technology standards. In her current role, Vanitha leads the modem SW air interface technology including 5G, 4G-LTE, and Cellular IoT across multiple global locations. She also has vast experience leading multiple generations of Qualcomm chipsets and working closely with customers, vendors and cellular carriers to enable the launch of many devices. She has about 132 granted patents in the US & abroad.

Vanitha is passionate about the role of women in science and technology. She is on the board of Qualcomm Foundation in charge of Corporate Giving. She is also on the board of Elementary Institute of Science which is a non-profit organization that focuses on developing exposure and interest in STEM careers among young children. Vanitha also coaches science Olympiad, Math and Robotics teams at her daughter’s school.

Jane Li

Delivering high-tech industry board value through executive leadership, M&A and growth strategies, cybersecurity, marketing and sales.

Jane Li is an accomplished public, private, and advisory Board Director and COO with over 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, delivering a successful track record in strategy development, general management, M&A, turnarounds, go-to-market and sales leadership. She contributes a strong business acumen to the boardroom across information technology, SaaS, IoT, semiconductors, telecommunications, cloud, software and cybersecurity sectors.

Jane brings expertise in growing numerous businesses and managing large P&Ls across Fortune 500 companies – Corning, Fujitsu, Huawei, and Huawei Symantec Joint Venture. She enables public company boards to scale growth, leveraging her strong operations leadership within PE companies, keen ability to forge relationships far and wide, as well as her extensive international experience with global companies headquartered in US, Japan, and China.

Jane serves as Board Director for the semiconductor company, Knowles (NYSE: KN), with $826M+ in revenue, also serving as a member on the company’s Audit and Nominating & Governance Committees. She brings fellow board members and leadership teams a balanced approach of governance, strategic guidance, risk management and meaningful encouragement. Jane guides Knowles employing her deep expertise growing businesses in both the semiconductor and communications/IT space, which are Knowles key end markets. Jane balances insights with financial and operational acumen from experience in PE engagements and utilizes cybersecurity technology background in Audit Committee discussions.

In addition to Knowles, Jane also serves as a Board Director of Semtech (NASDAQ: SMTC), where she is a member of the Compensation Committee, guiding the board of this $627M semiconductor company on strategic growth within IoT and cloud areas. Her deep understanding across both chip business and systems, as well as cloud and software business, position her as unique contribution to board discussions. Jane’s wide network in many technology spaces enables a greater connection to the company, with new board members, new technology ,and business partnership opportunities. As a member of the Compensation Committee, Jane advises on balancing executive retention with shareholder expectations. Through her unique background and wide network across China, she recently assisted the board and management team mitigate China risk while maximizing China growth.

Jane also joined CTS Corporation (NYSE: CTS) Board and is a member of Technology and Transactions Committee and also Nom and Gov Committee. Her focus is on bringing technology and industry perspectives as the company expands its presence in new and existing markets.

Currently, Jane serves as a Strategic Advisor and Operating Partner for Diversis Capital, a PE firm, where she led a turnaround strategy and many technology deals from assessment to due diligence. She also serves as a Board Director of SaaS company, ServicePower, and is Advisory Board Member of Skytap, also a SaaS business, advising on go-to-market strategies, SaaS business models, product roadmap, leadership, and marketing and branding strategies. Before joining Diversis Capital, Jane led as the COO of Huawei Enterprise, USA, in IT, Cloud, and Mobility, and was the General Manager for Huawei Symantec USA (Storage and Security). As the top US executive responsible for building the US business, she delivered $300M in two years for this $40B major Chinese company, after breaking into the US market, successfully navigating cultural, political, branding and technological challenges.

As an M&A, Turnaround CEO, and Operations Consultant with The Gores Group, a PE firm with $2.7B AUM, Jane led the acquisition of a $600M revenue division of a large public company. Previously, in her Marketing and Sales Director role for Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW), Jane forged key relationships with industry leaders and led the successful launch and promotion of metropolitan fiber products worldwide, contributing to the $7.1B in revenue in 2000. She also led her teams in tripling revenues to $350M and increasing growth as the Executive Vice President and GM of Fujitsu Compound Semiconductor Inc. Additionally, Jane held Advisory Board Member roles for Zadara Storage (Cloud), Primex Wireless (cloud/wireless).

Jane has earned coveted awards, including 2019 Most Influential Corporate Board Directors by WomenInc., 2019 Directors to Watch by Directors & Boards, 100 Women in Tech 2015 by Hot Topics, Women of the Channel 2015 and Channel Chief 2015 by CRN. A former member of the National Board of Directors for Women in Cable & Telecommunications (WICT), Jane earned BS and MS degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from Zhejiang University, as well as a Master of Communications and Marketing from Ohio University. She also attended Stanford Directors’ College in 2016 and 2017. Jane Li is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

Dr. Xiaotong Lin

CEO

Coolstar Technology, Inc.

Dr. Xiaotong Lin has been the CEO and board director since Coolstar Technology was founded in 2014. She has made strategic engagements for the company with top partners and customers and successfully built a top technology team with industry gurus. Under her leadership, the company has built two major product lines: Silicon-based RFPA and Power Management IC. Both product lines are based on Coolstar’s disruptive and proprietary technology platforms co-developed with TSMC, outperforming the state-of-the-art.

From 2005 to 2014, Dr. Lin was a senior principle scientist at Broadcom, responsible for ASIC architecture for Read Channel and Gigabits Ethernet chips. She was one of the main contributors to IEEE 802.3az (Energy Efficient Ethernet standard) and Automotive Broadreach Industry Specifications. Before joining Broadcom, she was a senior member of the technical staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. She holds 10 granted patents and multiple IEEE journal publications.

Dr. Lin graduated from the Gifted Students Program at Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1995. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in 2000.

Maitreyee Mahajani

VP of Fab Operations

Western Digital

Maitreyee Mahajani, Vice President of Fab Operations at Western Digital, manages the SanDisk-Toshiba JVs and is responsible for managing NAND supply strategy, long term Fab strategy, and all aspects of maintaining relationship with the JV partner (Toshiba). Maitreyee has successfully negotiated several strategic contracts to enhance the value of the JV for WD.

Prior to joining SanDisk, Maitreyee worked at Applied Materials for an aggregate of 15+ years in various technical leadership positions. Maitreyee has extensive experience developing semiconductor processing equipment starting from the very first 300mm WCVD chamber to new ALD platforms.

Maitreyee worked as a process and device integration engineer at Matrix Semiconductors, a startup developing 3D cross point Memory where she developed many innovative ideas for building 3D devices.

Maitreyee holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from College of Engineering Pune, India and a master’s degree in material science from University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She holds over 40 patents and is a recipient of YWCA TWIN award (Tribute to Women in Industry). She actively participates in women network activities at WD and enjoys mentoring budding women engineers.

Dr. Maria Marced

Board Member

Ceva, IQE, Sequans

Mrs. Maria Marced holds non executive Director positions at Ceva and IQE. Prior to this, Maria has been the President of TSMC Europe from November 2007 until December 2023 being responsible for the strategy and management of TSMC Europe and leading the decision of TSMC on the EU fab.
Maria joined Philips Semiconductors in 2003 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Connected Multimedia Solutions Business Unit and later on as General Manager of Sales and Marketing during the transformation of Philips to NXP. Maria joined Philips from Intel where she developed her professional career over 19 years, reaching the top position in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region as Vice President and General Manager. Mrs. Marced holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. She was born in Valencia, Spain and is married with one daughter.

Karen Donlan

Sr. Director of Silicon Valley Sales

Siemens EDA

Karen Donlan is the Senior Director of Silicon Valley Sales for Siemens EDA, leading a growing team responsible for delivering approximately 25% of Siemens EDA North America revenue. Karen joined Siemens EDA (then Mentor Graphics) in 2014 as an Account Director for several of their most strategic accounts and grew the largest enterprise accounts on the order of 30% per year. Prior to Siemens, Karen was with Cadence as a Senior Account Executive and an Account Manager at Synopsys after starting her career at Motorola Semiconductor. She graduated from the University of Florida with a BSEE.

Karen leverages her extensive industry knowledge and insight and adds a sense of urgency, accountability, and transparency to drive business success and continually grow her team and colleagues. Karen is a dedicated mentor—passionate about offering guidance, leadership, and support to other women as well as building the next generation of EDA talent. She was instrumental in starting the Women at Mentor Employee Resource Group and is now an active member of the Women’s Impact Network at Siemens.

Karen finds inspiration in working with early-career people, including her three daughters, and is committed to a journey of lifelong learning from the people surrounding her.

Maggie Qiu

Co-Founder and CEO

SemiDrive

Maggie co-founded SemiDrive Technology Ltd. in 2018 and served as CEO since then. SemiDrive Technology Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company, focusing on high-performance automotive SoC and MCU used in ADAS, e-Cockpit and other automotive applications.

Before founding SemiDrive, Maggie served as General Manager of Freescale Qiangxin, as well as R&D Director for i.MX product line at Freescale. Prior to that, Maggie served as R&D Director at Pixelworks (NASDAQ: PXLW). From 1997 to 2008, Maggie worked in various start-ups in silicon valley, providing SoC across different fields including consumer electronics, graphics, networking and communication.

Maggie earned M.S. in EE from University of Wisconsin-Madison and B.S. from Southeast University.

Jennie Raubacher

Board of Directors Member

Allegro MicroSystems

Jennie Raubacher is a member of the Board of Directors for the semiconductor company Allegro MicroSystems (NASDAQ: ALGM), with over $1 billion in annual revenue, and also serves as a member of the company’s Audit Committee. She has over 26 years’ experience focused on the technology and telecom sectors, and has advised numerous C-suite executives and Boards of Directors around the world on strategic and financing transactions as an investment banker, with a focus on growth (organic and inorganic via M&A).

Prior to her appointment to Allegro’s Board, during the course of her 26-year professional career as an investment banker, Jennie advised on over 230 completed transactions totaling ~$590 billion across M&A and financing, including over $140 billion of completed M&A transactions and ~$450 billion in completed financing transactions. Jennie served as Managing Director at Wells Fargo & Company (“Wells Fargo”) and led Wells Fargo’s global semiconductor and electronics investment banking practice from 2011 until March 2024. From 1998 to 2011, Jennie was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers Inc. and Barclays Capital Inc. (following its acquisition of Lehman Brothers) focused on the technology, media and telecom sectors.

Ms. Raubacher holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Harvard University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University. Her passions outside of work include food, wine and travel.

Maryam Rofougaran

CEO and Co-Founder

Movandi Corporation

Maryam Rofougaran is CEO and co-founder of Movandi Corporation a venture-backed startup commercializing multi-gigabit, millimeter wave networks with innovative RF front-end technology for 5G and beyond. She is also the COO and board member of the company. Maryam Co-founded Movandi in the middle of 2016 with the mission to continue innovation and enabling next generation of wireless communications. In 2018 Movandi was awarded by the Global Semiconductor Alliance as the Start-up to Watch.

Prior to Movandi, Maryam was a Senior VP of Radio Engineering at Broadcom Corporation. She joined Broadcom in 2000 through acquisition of the company she had co-founded, Innovent Systems. At Broadcom Maryam was instrumental in growing a new wireless business unit and turning it into one of its biggest business units. At Broadcom Maryam led a team of several hundred engineers worldwide who developed wireless radios for a variety of integrated and multi standard chip technologies, including Bluetooth, WLAN, GPS, NFC, cellular devices, mobile backhaul, femtocells, 60Ghz WiGig and other mobile network technologies. Her team developed and shipped more than one and half billion radio chips annually.

Maryam cofounded Innovent Systems in November of 1998 and was Vice president of Product development and member of the board of directors. Innovent Systems was one of the first startups to commercialize RF CMOS and full SOC integration for short range wireless communications such as Bluetooth and WiFi. Maryam was not only involved with design and product development, product roadmap and market strategy, but also every aspect of business and growing company from scratch to its acquisition by Broadcom in August 2000.

Carolin Seward

VP of Custom Silicon Sourcing and Operations

Google

Carolin Seward has decades of experience in the Silicon industry. She is currently VP of Custom Silicon Sourcing and Operations at Google, Consumer Hardware. Her organization is responsible for sourcing, development and manufacturing engineering operations, factory supply planning, and supply chain management for custom silicon.

Prior to Google, Carolin held several positions at Intel corporations. She was the VP and GM of Sourcing and Supplier management in the Global External Manufacturing Sourcing organization at Intel Corporation. She also served as Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Solutions Group responsible for delivering integrated data center systems and customer experience. She also held several roles in the Technology Manufacturing Group including Vice President and Director of Global Supply Management for assembly/test equipment and materials, including substrates. She spent several years in frontend wafer manufacturing equipment supply chain in various roles, managing supply chain strategy and key equipment accounts.

Carolin is on the Board of Industry Leaders at SEMI and has sponsored many women in technology and supply chain initiatives. She received The Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco award in 2022. She received her BS in Materials Engineering from San Jose State University and her MBA from Pepperdine University.

Jodi Shelton

President

GSA

Jodi Shelton is the co-founder and president of GSA. A pioneer within the technology space, Shelton was instrumental in the creation of the Alliance and has continuously addressed global issues in the industry as the voice of its members. Under her leadership, GSA has grown its membership to include companies throughout the supply chain representing 25 countries across the globe. In her role as president, Shelton oversees GSA daily operations, ensuring that the Alliance remains focused on achieving its defined mission and goal to foster a more effective ecosystem through collaboration, integration and innovation. She is the key liaison between GSA and the business community at high-level financial and industry conferences, providing insight on key topics pertaining to the global fabless supply chain. Shelton earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from San Diego State University and her master’s degree in political science from the University of Houston.

Debora Shoquist

EVP, Operations

NVIDIA

Debora Shoquist is executive vice president of operations at NVIDIA. She is responsible for the company’s IT, operations and supply chain functions. These include manufacturing product and test engineering; foundry operations; supplier/contract-manufacturing management; supply planning; logistics; facilities; and the company’s quality management system. She is also responsible for overseeing construction of the company’s new $360-380 million building at its Santa Clara headquarters.

Shoquist joined NVIDIA in 2007 as senior vice president of operations and was named to her current role two years later. She has more than 15 years of executive experience in general management, manufacturing and operations, including plant management, engineering, information services, finance and human resources.

Shoquist served from 2004 to 2007 as executive vice president of operations at JDS Uniphase. From 2002 to 2004, she was senior vice president and general manager of the Electro-Optics business at Coherent, a manufacturer of commercial and scientific laser equipment. Previously, she spent 11 years in key executive roles at Quantum, including president of the Personal Computer Hard Disk Drive division, and 10 years at HP in various engineering and manufacturing management roles.

She holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University and a BS degree in biology from Santa Clara University.

Jennifer Sirrine

VP of Software

Infineon Technologies

Jennifer Sirrine, vice president of software at Infineon, is responsible for the definition, development and deployment of software for the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and MCU product lines. She is also responsible for ModusToolbox™ Software, the embedded development ecosystem for a broad range of Infineon products.

Jennifer joined Cypress Semiconductor Corporation as a design engineer in September of 2001, serving in a variety of functions before the company was acquired by Infineon in 2021. Her career has spanned many aspects of new product development, including digital design, program management, strategic product leadership, and hardware and software engineering management. She is an executive sponsor for Women of Infineon Technologies (WIT), one of Infineon’s Employee Resource Groups. WIT aims to create an environment where women can be their authentic selves and have their contributions recognized and respected on an equal basis with their peers. The group’s ambition is to foster equal opportunities for career and economic advancement so that women are able to reach their full potential. ​​

Jennifer earned her MBA from the University of Oregon, her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boise State University and has completed an Executive Management program at INSEAD. Additionally, she has served as a panelist for a variety of programs, including Women in Engineering (Infineon India), Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering (sponsored by Inclusive Engineering Consortium), Women’s Leadership (Infineon U.S.), and the Women’s Leadership Initiative University (Global Semiconductor Alliance).

In her free time, Jennifer enjoys the outdoors, traveling, and spending time with friends and family. She and her spouse have a daughter in college and two playful pups, Leo and Cass, at home.

Dr. Lisa Su

Chair & CEO

AMD

Lisa T. Su is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). Over the course of her tenure as CEO, Dr. Su has transformed the company to become a leader in high-performance and adaptive computing and one of the fastest growing semiconductor companies in the world.

Prior to joining AMD, Dr. Su served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Networking and Multimedia at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (a semiconductor manufacturing company) responsible for global strategy, marketing, and engineering for the company’s embedded communications and applications processor business. She also spent thirteen years at IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions, including as Vice President of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center with responsibility for IBM’s silicon research and development activities.

Dr. Su has published more than forty technical articles and was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) in 2009. In 2018, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and received the Global Semiconductor Association’s Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. In 2020, Fortune named Dr. Su #2 on its “Business Person of the Year” list and she received the Grace Hopper Technical Leadership Abie Award. In 2021, she was recognized by the IEEE with its highest semiconductor honor, the Robert N. Noyce Medal and was appointed by President Biden to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of Cisco Systems, Inc., since January 2020 and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. Lisa was recognized as a 2022 Fortune Most Powerful Woman and a 2022 International Peace Honors Honoree for her achievements in revolutionizing high performance computing, the donation of supercomputing power for infectious disease research, and inspiring people from all backgrounds to pursue careers in STEM.

Dipti Vachani

Sr. VP & GM, Automotive and IoT Line of Business

ARM

Dipti Vachani is the senior vice president and general manager of the Automotive and IoT Line of Business at Arm. Dipti’s organization is responsible for the proliferation of Arm-based solutions in the transformational opportunities of autonomous driving and IoT.

Prior to joining Arm, Dipti served as vice president and general manager of the Product Management and Customer Enablement division in the IoT Group at Intel Corporation. There, she was responsible for driving the overall product development roadmap, technology direction, IoT Edge product portfolio and worldwide customer enablement for IoT.

Before Intel, Dipti spent 17 years at Texas Instruments, where she led the creation of the company’s Sitara brand of Arm MPUs, and held multiple product manager and leadership roles including vice president and general manager of the Single Core Processors group.

Dipti has served on the board of directors for NetSpeed Systems and the Innovation and Technology advisory board for the City of San Jose. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University, an executive MBA degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a graduate of the executive education programs at Stanford, Harvard and Cambridge business schools.

Jie Xue

VP, Supply Chain Operations

Cisco Systems

Jie Xue leads Cisco’s Technology and Quality organization, a global team in Cisco’s supply chain responsible for anticipating, developing, and executing technology innovations to deliver exceptional customer experience. The team drives a competitive advantage for Cisco by ensuring breakthrough innovation and excellence in manufacturing technology, test and component engineering, advanced technology development, closed-loop quality management, and product compliance.

Prior to joining Cisco, Jie held several management and engineering positions at Motorola, Inc., working on R&D and product development. Jie was selected by Connected World magazine for its 2017 “Women of Machine to Machine (M2M)” technology list, received the 2017 Women of Color STEM Conference Special Recognition Award. She received Electronics Manufacturing Technology Award, and David Feldman Outstanding Contribution Award from International Electrical and Electronics Society (IEEE)-EPS in 2019 and 2016 respectively, and the YWCA 31st Annual Tribute to Women (TWIN) Awards in 2015. As an advocate for Women leadership development in the STEM field globally, she was the Board Committee Member for IEEE-Woman in Engineering in 2016, and Organization Committee for Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference in 2016.

Jie is an IMAPS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, President of IEEE – Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) 2014-2015, and IEEE-EPS Distinguished Lecturer. She also has published more than 90 technical papers, holds 15 patents, and has given keynote talks at many international conferences. Jie holds a Bachelor of Science from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and a Master of Science and PhD from Cornell University.

Stella Zhu

Executive Vice President

CXMT

Stella Zhu has decades of experience in semiconductor industry. She is currently the EVP of Central Planning and Supply Chain Center team of CXMT.

She leads the supply chain management with a broad range of responsibilities, including corporate capacity planning together with capital investment, product supply planning, product test engineering and overall management of backend operations for both assembly and test.

She is also in charge of the Corporate Procurement team including, but not limited to, Frontend/Backend equipment, materials, and new building construction, as well as Logistics and WH. Additionally, she covers the total cost ownership for the corporation, building infrastructure and systems to enable cost benchmarking.

Stella graduated from Tsinghua University with a Bachelor’s degree, majoring in Precision Instruments and Machinery and continued her Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. She also earned a joint MBA from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Webster University. Ms. Zhu’s previous experience were with Intel and Micron operations in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and China.