smart analog for sensory processing

MANAGEMENT

Hubert R. Engelbrechten, CEO

Mr. Engelbrechten joined GTronix in 2005. Previously Mr. Engelbrechten was Senior Vice President, Corporate Officer and General Manager of the Integrated Circuits Group at Fairchild Semiconductor, where he managed a group with $800 million in annual revenues and 700 employees in four global locations. With over 25 years of international analog semiconductor experience, Mr. Engelbrechten has held key management positions at Raytheon Semiconductor, National Semiconductor, Siemens and Degussa. He is a graduate of State University of Hamburg/Germany with an MS degree in electrical engineering and an MBA.

Paul Hasler, Chief Science Officer

Dr. Hasler is one of the founders of GTronix and serves on its Board of Directors. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Hasler received his M.S. and B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, and received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in Computation and Neural Systems. Dr. Hasler's work has been widely recognized within both academia and industry organizations having won numerous awards from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and IEEE.

Sanjay Bhandari, VP of Engineering

Dr. Bhandari joined GTronix in 2007. Prior to joining GTronix, Dr. Bhandari served as Senior Director of Analog/Mixed-signal Design Engineering at Ikanos Communications, where he was responsible for developing several generations of their world leading VDSL PHY analog chip sets as well as Residential Gateway analog solution by building design teams both in USA and India. Prior to Ikanos, Dr. Bhandari served as Design Engineering Manager at Philips Semiconductors where he developed leading edge Preamp and Read Channel ICs for hard disk drives. Dr. Bhandari has also served at ST Microelectronics, Duet Technologies and Center for Applied Research in Electronics in New Delhi, India. Dr. Bhandari received his BSEE from College of Engineering, Pune, MSEE from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Dr. Bhandari has published numerous technical papers and holds 9 patents.

Mark Wagner, VP of Sales

Mr. Wagner joined GTronix in 2006. He brings over 25 years of sales and senior management experience to GTronix including managing director of sales for Zeevo Europe, a fabless Bluetooth wireless IC start-up, director of sales for Synaptics, a leader in human interface solutions, and sales director for Xicor. Mr. Wagner was also vice president of sales for IQV, a pioneering design house which introduced the sub-notebook PC known as the "Handbook", which was later adopted by Gateway. Mr. Wagner holds a bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Toledo.

James A. Mravca, VP Marketing

Mr. Mravca joined Gtronix in 2008. Previously Mr. Mravca was Vice President of GainSpan Corporation where he managed early market and customer development. Prior to this, he served as Vice President of Marketing for Motia where he developed the overall marketing strategy and led the product launch activities for the company's first smart antenna semiconductor products. Mr. Mravca has held key management positions at WJ Communications and Watkins-Johnson Company. Mr. Mravca has over 23 years of industry experience and holds both a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Engineering Management from Stanford.