Phoenix Leadership Team
Bringing together a team with deep expertise and a breadth of knowledge, Phoenix Semiconductor will leverage decades of combined experience in every aspect of semiconductor design, production, packaging and sales. With experts in both defense applications and commercial industries, the leadership team at Phoenix is dedicated to solving the end-of-life and mature semiconductor shortage for every sector that leverages microelectronics.
Leadership
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Dr. Ryan Hatcher
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Dr. Ryan Hatcher
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Dr. Ryan Hatcher is the Founder and CEO of Phoenix Semiconductor Corporation. In this role he is building on more than 20 years of deep expertise and broad leadership capabilities. A distinguished innovator, Dr. Hatcher is dedicated to bringing his groundbreaking solution to market, to solve chronic risk typically associated with semiconductors manufactured on mature nodes.
- Chief Technology Officer, Ultra Command Control and Intelligence (C2I), a part of Ultra Electronics Group
- Corporate Technology Scout, Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Principal Scientist, Advanced Logic Laboratory, Samsung Semiconductor
- Lead Scientist, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory
- Ph.D. in Physics and a M.S. in Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
- Authored over 50 influential papers and patents that have garnered over 350 citations.
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Brian Hoerl
Chief Growth Officer & Founder
Brian Hoerl
Chief Growth Officer & Founder
Brian Hoerl is the co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of Phoenix Semiconductor, guiding the go-to-market strategy and building a foundation of operational excellence.
Brian brings a wealth of experience in sales, business development, and executive management, and has been a leader in the OEM industry for over 30 years.
- Senior Vice President of Sales for Mercury Systems leading $100 Million to $1 Billion in sales over 17 years
- Vice President of Sales and later President, Ariel Corporation
- Sales roles, Intel Corporation and Siemens Semiconductor
- Engineering roles, MITRE and Northern Telecom
- ME in Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware
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Norm Malnak
Chief Operating Officer
Norm Malnak
Chief Operating Officer
With over 30 years of management within the aerospace & defense industry, Norm Malnak will serve as Phoenix Semiconductor’s Chief Operations Officer. In this role Mr. Malnak will lead the company’s efforts in connecting with strategic production partners, leveraging his expertise of the manufacturing ecosystem, connecting with channel partners on the go-to-market strategy and managing engineering talent.
- Vice president of Advanced System Architectures, Mercury Systems
- Partner, Thunderbolt Solutions, LLC responsible for new product developments
- Held several executive positions at Lockheed Martin over 24-year period:
- Vice President Aeronautics Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
- Vice President F-35 Mission Systems and Software for 9 years, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
- Vice President of Technical Operations for the Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors (MS2) business unit
- BS in computer science, Rutgers University
- Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
- Recipient of the Lockheed Martin NOVA Leadership Award, the Lockheed Martin Leadership Association Silver Knight Award and the IEEE 2009 Engineer of the Year Award (Philadelphia Chapter).
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Iain Mackie
Chief Technology Officer
Iain Mackie
Chief Technology Officer
Iain Mackie serves at Phoenix Semiconductor’s Chief Technology Officer, where his depth of knowledge in digital computing architectures, semiconductors and microelectronics will lead Phoenix’s technical approach.
- Vice President and General Manager, Mercury Systems
- Vice President of Engineering, Microsemi
- Deep historical knowledge of the VLSI and microelectronics revolution fueling the growth of consumer applications
- Led the development of award-winning products for Fortune 500 companies in the defense, financial, commercial, consumer, automotive and aerospace industries
- Dedicated to leveraging breadth of technical expertise to support early-stage disruptors
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Marco Davila
Vice President, Technology and Product Engineering
Marco Davila
Vice President, Technology and Product Engineering
Marco Davila will serve as the Vice President of Technology and Product Engineering guiding the technical direction and development for Phoenix’s core offerings. In this role Mr. Davila will lead an engineering team that will execute on the company’s vision and mission to serve the end customer.
- Multiple leadership roles at Xilinx and AMD, including Principal Staff SFAE, System IO & RF focused on Wireless & Wired Communications, Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, and Test & Measurement Units.
- Department Manager – Systems Design Engineering; AMD lead the development of specialized hardware geared towards validating and improving the quality of server CPU and GPU silicon.
- Department Manager – Digital Design Engineering; Raytheon RVS lead the development of specialized hardware geared towards validating and improving the quality of our IR and ROIC silicon.
- Engineering roles, Agilent Technologies and NOAA
- Areas of expertise include defining complex system architectures, providing a basis of estimates to business development partners, designing for signal integrity with precision, and ensuring designs are meticulously validated, debugged, and tested.
- M.S., Electrical Engineering (ABT), University of Colorado; B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Advisors
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Charlie Leader
Board of Advisors
Charlie Leader
Board of Advisors
Charlie Leader is a seasoned business executive with deep experience leading both commercial and defense applications of leading edge technology. Charlie has nearly 35 years of experience running semiconductor and microelectronics business lines for commercial communications applications including wireless backhaul, point-to-point, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and instrumentation. Most recently his work centered around weapons systems, munitions, electronic warfare and radar applications.
- Senior Vice President, Microelectronics Division, Mercury Systems
- Vice President and General Manager, Memory and Processing Division, Microsemi
- Executive leadership roles within engineering and operations teams, Semiconductor Products and Wireless Infrastructure Divisions, Hewlett Packard.
- BS and BA in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University
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Prof. Puneet Gupta
Board of Advisors
Prof. Puneet Gupta
Board of Advisors
Professor Gupta is advising Phoenix on development of a customized EDA toolchain which will deliver mission-critical microelectronics to customers.
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UCLA with a focus on co-optimization of semiconductor technologies with computing systems
- Led team that designed the first chiplet-based waferscale computing system. Leads the System Benchmarking theme within the DARPA/SRC CHIMES JUMP 2.0 center with focus on advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration.
- Leads multi-university IMPACT+ Center which focuses on future semiconductor technologies.
- Co-founder and product architect for Blaze DFM, Inc
- Electrical engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi.
- Ph.D., UC San Diego
- Authored over 200 papers and holds 18 U.S. patents
- IEEE Fellow and recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, SRC Inventor Recognition Award, and the IBM Faculty Award
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Dr. Brad Pietras
Board of Advisors
Dr. Brad Pietras
Board of Advisors
Dr. Brad Pietras is a founding member of the Board of Advisors for Phoenix Semiconductor, where he will leverage his extensive experience in developing cutting-edge technologies in the defense and commercial industries.
- Senior Advisor to the Chief of Commercial Strategy, DARPA
- Technology Strategy Director, Director of Business Development for AI and Machine Learning, Rolls Royce
- 20 years in leadership roles at Lockheed Martin Corporation, including Vice President of Technology and Vice President of UK Engineering and Technology
- Board of Directors, Emerging Technology Fund, Lockheed Martin
- Dr. Pietras led the initiative that resulted in the founding of Applied Nanostructured Solutions, LLC and the introduction of advanced carbon-based materials in multiple Lockheed Martin products including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the Juno spacecraft
- Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience, University of Maryland Baltimore
- BS in Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology; MS in Neuroscience, Syracuse University