Management

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Dr. Yang Zhao

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Yang Zhao is our founder and has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since our inception. Dr. Zhao has over 15 years of experience in MEMS technology and related business development. Prior to founding our company in 1999, Dr. Zhao served in various management positions at Analog Devices, Inc. for seven years, where he was instrumental in developing ADI's potential MEMS product line and forming industry-wide strategic relationships. Dr. Zhao is well-recognized in the field of MEMS technology. He has been named as an inventor on 11 U.S. patents in IC circuit, processing, packaging and MEMS technology. Dr. Zhao holds a B.S. degree in physics from Peking University, as well as a master's degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University where he studied under Professor Daniel Tsui, who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics. He is currently the vice chairman of the board at the School of Engineering of Peking University.

Patricia Niu

Chief Financial Officer

Patricia Niu has served as our Vice President of Finance since September 2006. Ms. Niu has over 12 years of experience in corporate finance and four years of experience in commercial banking. Prior to joining us in 2002, Ms. Niu served as the International Business Unit Controller at Key3Media Events, Inc. from 2001 to 2002 and the Senior Financial Analyst and Audit Supervisor at Fesenius Medical Care, N.A. from 1995 to 2001. From 1989 through 1995, Ms. Niu served as a commercial lender at the Savings Bank in Wakefield, Massachusetts and the Bank of China, Head Office in Beijing, China. Ms. Niu received an M.B.A. from Northeastern University in Boston in 1994 and a B.A. from Beijing Foreign Studies University in China in 1989. She is also a certified public accountant.

Patrick Chiumiento

Vice President Marketing and Business Development

Patrick Chiumiento has served as our Vice President Marketing and Business Development since February 2007. Mr. Chiumiento has over 25 years of experience in technical marketing, sales and business development in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining us in February 2007, Mr. Chiumiento was the co-founder of Chipwrights. Inc., a producer of high performance DSP devices optimized for the imaging market, and served as its vice president of World Wide Sales & Business Development from 2000 to 2005 and chief executive officer from 2005 to 2007. Mr. Chiumiento co-founded N*Able Technologies, Inc. in 1996 and served as its vice president of sales and marketing from 1996 to 1999. From 1973 to 1996, Mr. Chiumiento held various vice president and management level positions at a number of companies including Databook Corporation, IBM Microelectronics, Chips and Technologies, NEC Electronics (USA), and ITT Semiconductor. He received a B.S.E.E. from University of Massachusetts at Lowell and completed his post graduate studies in Business Administration at Merrimac College and Northeastern University.

Gary O'Brien

Vice President of Engineering

Gary O'Brien has served as our Vice President of Engineering since July 2007. Mr. O'Brien has 14 years of experience in the design and development of multiple accelerometer and pressure sensors. Mr. O'Brien joined Motorola's Sensor Products Division in Tempe, Arizona, as a mixed signal circuit design engineer in 1993. From 1993 through 2005, he designed and developed multiple pressure, acceleration and angular rate (gyroscope) sensor systems for Motorola and its recent spin-off company, Freescale Semiconductor. From 2005 until 2007, Mr. O'Brien was an assistant professor at Arizona State University. He currently holds nine issued patents in the MEMS area, in addition to having previously generated multiple automotive accelerometer and pressure sensor/ASIC designs. Mr. O'Brien received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering with honors from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL, in 1988. He received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta in 1993, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2004.