Scott Gibson is the CEO of Gibson Enterprises. Prior to that he was the co-founder and president of Sequent Systems, which is now a division of IBM. Mr. Gibson currently serves as a Board member of TriQuint Semiconductor, Radisys, Egghead.com, Integrated Measurement Systems, Webridge, Emerald Solutions, etrieve, CenQuest, Livebridge, and the OHSU Foundation. He is the Chairman of the Board for Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI). Scott Gibson has a degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA.

Patrick Holmes is the Director of e-Business Architecture at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for developing Intel's enterprise applications architecture to make Intel a 100% e-Corporation.
Mr. Holmes joined Intel in 1983 and has held technical and management positions in applications development, IT technology development and systems engineering. He led the design engineering for Intel's ERP implementation and the technology development of Intel's first e-Business application. Holmes left Intel for three years to be founder and CTO of an e-Commerce Application Service Provider.
Holmes received a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University.

Dr. Kwan Rim is the Chairman of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), the central research laboratory of the Samsung Group. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1958 and Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1960, both from Northwestern University in the USA.
In 1960 he joined the Department of Mechanics and Hydraulics of the University of Iowa and was an engineering faculty member there until 1995. At the University of Iowa he was Chairman of the Department of Mechanics and Hydraulics (1971-74), Associate Dean of Engineering (1974-79), Chairman of the Division of Materials Engineering (1978-84), and Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (1984-90). He is the founder of the Biomedical Engineering Program at Iowa as well as the Iowa Institute of Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Rim held the U.S. National Science Foundation’s SEED (Scientists and Engineers for Economic Development) Professorship in 1976-77, served as the President of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) from 1982 to 1984, and as a visiting professor in Japan in 1992. He has also served on the boards of directors of numerous educational and research institutes. He was the 1992 recipient of the Outstanding Biomedical Engineering Educator Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. He also served on the President’s Council on Science and Technology of the Republic of Korea.

Dr. Seiichi Watanabe is the President of Frontier Science Laboratories and Corporate Executive Vice President of Sony Corporation. He has B.S., M.S. and doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering, all from the University of Tokyo. Dr. Watanabe has held numerous positions at Sony Corporation since he joined it in 1967.

Dr. Clemens is President and CEO of Sharp Laboratories of America (SLA). SLA performs applied research in multimedia technologies and process technology development in the integrated circuits and liquid crystal display areas. SLA employs approximately 200 persons and is located in Camas, Washington. In addition, SLA has a subsidiary in India where approximately 70 persons are working on software development.
Prior to joining SLA and after appointments as president at two small companies, Dr. Clemens served for five years as Senior Vice President of Science and Technology at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) International.
Dr. Clemens is an electrical engineer with a doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent 21 years at RCA research laboratories, where he was in charge of consumer electronics research. During this time his major contributions were in the field of multimedia.
Dr. Clemens holds 19 patents related to consumer products and multimedia technology.

Richard Hill has been Novellus’ CEO and a member of the Board of Directors since December 1993. He was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors in May 1996.
Mr. Hill holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Illinois and a Master’s in business administration from Syracuse University. He is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Illinois and is also on the boards of the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International Association (SEMI), SpeedFam-IPEC, Inc., Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC), and Luminent, Inc.
From 1981 to 1993, Mr. Hill was employed by Tektronix, Inc., an electronics company, where he held positions as President of the Tektronix Development Company, Vice President of the Test and Measurement Group, and President of Tektronix Components Corporation, Prior to joining Tektronix, Mr. Hill held engineering management positions at General Electric, Motorola and Hughes Aircraft Company.

Steve joined TriQuint in September 1991 as President, CEO and Director. In May 1992 he became Chairman of the Board. During the previous eight years, he had served in various roles associated with venture capital-financed semiconductor companies. In 1988-9 he was founder and CEO of Power Integrations, Inc. Previously, he was employed for 14 years by Signetics Corp. and for nine years by Texas Instruments. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, an MS in Engineering Science from California Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Stanford University.

Donald R. VanLuvanee is President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (ESI) of Portland, Oregon. ESI designs and manufactures sophisticated electronic manufacturing products used around the world. ESI has nearly 1,300 employees worldwide and approximately 60% of its revenues are from export sales.
Prior to Mr. VanLuvanee’s move to ESI, he was President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors of Mechanical Technology Incorporated (MTI) of Latham, New York. MTI supplied contract research and development services in the areas of advanced high-speed rotating equipment and instrumentation systems and developed and manufactured technologically advanced equipment used in the test/measurement and defense/aerospace markets.
Prior to MTI, Mr. VanLuvanee was President and Chief Executive Officer of BCT Spectrum, Inc. BCT Spectrum supplied vacuum deposition systems to the electronic and semiconductor industries, specializing in advanced thin films for submicron electronic devices.
Mr. VanLuvanee’s earlier positions include President, Chief Operating Officer, and Director of Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.; Vice President of Research and Development and Vice President of Product Design and Development at Syntex Dental Products; and engineering branch manager at Texas Instruments, Inc. in Dallas, Texas.
Mr. VanLuvanee was born in 1944. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Electrophysics. He currently holds the Chair position on the Oregon State Board of Higher Education, and he serves on the boards of several technology-based companies.