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Management
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John C. Lindgren
President and CEO |
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John is the President and Chief Executive Officer of MOSAID Technologies, one of Canada's leading intellectual property development companies. He joined MOSAID in November 2006 as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary and assumed his current position in April 2007. Prior to joining MOSAID, John spent 20 years with Texas Instruments (TI), one of the world's most renowned semiconductor companies.
In his last position at TI, John was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, responsible for company-wide legal issues related to the Asia Pacific and Japan regions, as well as global trade compliance legal issues. He also held primary responsibility for TI's ADSL patent licensing program, heading a team of 28 lawyers that provided legal counsel to TI's Application Specific Products group, which included the company's global Digital Signal Processor business. Prior to that, John served for two years as Senior Regional Counsel for TI's Japanese subsidiary, based in Tokyo. Earlier in his career, he served as Legal Counsel focused on patent licensing, litigation, and prosecution. John began his career at TI as a failure analysis engineer working on Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs).
John holds a Juris Doctorate from Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude and was editor-in-chief of the SMU Law Review; a M.Sc. Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University School of Engineering and Applied Science; and a B.Sc. Electrical Engineering from Duke University School of Engineering. He is the former chair of the Intellectual Property subcommittee of the Semiconductor Industry Association and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee for the Center for American and International Law.
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Joseph R. Brown
Chief Financial Officer |
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Since joining the Company in 1988, Joe has held increasingly senior roles in MOSAID's finance group from Director, Financial Services and Corporate Controller, to Vice President Finance in September, 2006. Joe was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company in April, 2007.
Prior to joining MOSAID, Joe was with Price Waterhouse chartered accountants. Joe is a Certified General Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University.
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Phillip Shaer
Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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Phillip joined MOSAID as Corporate Counsel in 2004 from McCarthy Tétrault, where he articled and became an associate upon admission to the Bar of the Province of Ontario in February, 2002. In January 2007, Phillip was appointed to the position of Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary. He was appointed Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in May, 2007. Phillip is responsible for the Company's legal strategy, as well as disclosure and corporate governance obligations.
Phillip obtained his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Windsor in 2000, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Université Laval.
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Peter B. Gillingham
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer |
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Peter joined MOSAID in 1989 as a Project Manager for state-of-the-art DRAM designs, and was appointed to Vice President, Business Development, of the Semiconductor Division in June 1998. In this position he led MOSAID's successful patent licensing program. He was named Vice President and General Manager of the Intellectual Property Division in April 2001 and continued in that role until being named Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in August 2006. A prolific inventor with over 60 issued US patents, Peter is the first CTO in MOSAID's history. As CTO, he advises on technology trends, provides leadership on technology development strategies, and conducts technology assessments of partnerships and potential acquisitions.
Peter was a Senior IC Design Engineer at Mitel Corporation prior to joining MOSAID. He holds a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering and an M.Eng in Electronics from Carleton University, as well as an M.Sc in Management from Stanford University. Peter also serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits.
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Michael B. Vladescu
Vice President, Licensing and Intellectual Property |
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As Vice President, Licensing and Intellectual Property, Michael is responsible for driving success in MOSAID’s two major patent licensing programs: the Semiconductor Licensing Program and the Telecommunications Licensing Program. Michael’s appointment to his current position in May 2007 reflects his significant contributions to the Company’s patent licensing success and its new focus on intellectual property licensing.
Michael joined MOSAID in 1996 as Manager, Intellectual Property from Semiconductor Insights, where he gained experience in design analysis. He was named Director of Intellectual Property in 2000 and promoted to Vice President, Patents in 2006. Over the years, Michael also played a key role in building MOSAID’s experienced, world-class licensing team. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and an Executive MBA from Queen’s University.
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Jin-Ki Kim
Vice President, Research and Development |
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Jin-Ki Kim is responsible for creating intellectual property and patented inventions related to advanced semiconductor memory technologies, the strategic implementation of those technologies, and enabling business relationships. He was named MOSAID’s Vice President, Research and Development in May 2007.
Under Jin-Ki’s direction, in the last three years the Company has filed more than 350 patent applications relating to NAND Flash memory and MOSAID’s breakthrough HyperLink NAND (HLNAND™) architecture and interface. In July 2010, MOSAID introduced an HLNAND Solid State Drive (SSD) prototype that achieves unprecedented per-channel Flash performance. The HLNAND SSD prototype utilizes MOSAID’s 64Gb HLNAND semiconductor chip and 64GB HLNAND memory module, both introduced in 2009.
Jin-Ki joined MOSAID in 1997 as a Manager in the memory group, and prior to his appointment as Vice President of R&D, he was Director, Technology Research and Development. Before MOSAID, he spent 12 years with Samsung Electronics in the non-volatile memory division, leading teams that developed many generations of NAND and NOR Flash memory products.
A respected expert in memory technology, Jin-Ki holds over 100 issued and pending patents for his work in NAND Flash memory and HLNAND. He is a principal author and co-author of more than 14 papers presented to various memory societies, including the IEEE. Jin-Ki has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Yonsei, Seoul, Korea, and an Executive MBA from Queen's University, Ontario, Canada.
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Dr. Nima Ahmadvand
Vice President, Telecommunications Technologies |
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Dr. Ahmadvand is responsible for licensing MOSAID's wireless patent portfolio, and for guiding R&D into advanced telecommunications technologies. An expert in wireless communications, optical networking, digital signal processing and other electrical, computer and telecommunications technologies, Dr. Ahmadvand joined MOSAID in January 2007.
Before MOSAID, Dr. Ahmadvand was VP of R&D at Peleton Photonic Systems, where he led a successful R&D and product development team. Prior to Peleton, he was a senior member of Nortel Networks' Wireless Access group, involved in the design of 3G wireless and cellular telecommunications systems. He also contributed to the development of industry standards.
Dr. Ahmadvand earned his Ph.D. in communications networks from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and held a post-doctoral position pertaining to digital signal processing. He holds an M.Sc. in digital electronics and computer hardware, and a B.Sc. in electronics, from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Dr. Ahmadvand has 19 issued patents, with some patents pending, for his work in telecommunications technologies.
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