Board Members

Dr. Matt Kim, Chairman

Dr. Matt Kim is the founder and president of QuantTera. QuantTera specializes in developing nano-engineered quantum-based devices for microelectronic applications. QuantTera's focus is to develop and manufacture lasers, detectors, and driver amplifiers for the next generation of integrated circuits. In 2000, Dr. Kim co-founded MicroLink Devices, Inc., a leading manufacturer of transistors for cellular communications in Niles, IL. At MicroLink he was Vice President of Operations and supervised the transistor manufacturing program, which ultimately resulted in vendor qualification at major telecommunications companies. From 1994 to 2000, Dr. Kim served as Principal staff scientist at Motorola's corporate research laboratory, demonstrating transistors with very high gain, which were used in Motorola cell phone technology. At the 2006 Governor's Celebration of Innovation, he received the Chairman's Award for contributions to Arizona's high-tech industry. Dr. Kim holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Company Link: www.quanttera.com

Other links: Photos of Governor's Celebration of Innovation

Michael J. Berman, Co-Chairman

Michael Berman has over 30 years of Mico-Nano fabrication experience at Data General, AMD, Sematech, LSI Logic, and the University of Arizona. Mike holds 50 patents, with more pending and many published papers. He has five major wafer fab start-ups, four in the US and one in Southeast Asia; four of the fab startups were named "Fab of the Year." Mike managed many different groups from small to greater than 100 staff in Process /Equipment Engineering, Maintenance, and Production with responsibilities including Sustaining Engineering, Development, and Tech Transfer within and outside the US. Types of projects included: Copy Smart, SPC, DOE, ISO 9001, ISO 14000, and CI teams. He managed all aspects of a small MEMS Research & Development center at the University of Arizona. He is currently the Director of Manufacturing for Tempronics in Tucson. Tempronics is perfecting advancing solid-state thermoelectric devices, devices that both cool and heat, and how to best integrate thermoelectric devices into everyday products like chairs, beds, and automobiles. Mike came to Arizona in 2004 as the Manager of the Micro/Nano Fabrication Center (MFC) at the University of Arizona before joining Tempronics in 2009. He has a BS in Physics and a BA in Technical Theater from the University of Central Florida (Florida Technological University). At LSI, Michael was "Inventor of the Year" for 2002 and "Outstanding Patent Liaison of the Year" for 2003. Mike has also consulted with many small high-tech start-ups in Southern Arizona and was on the screening committee of the Desert Angels, an angel investment group in Tucson where he served as the "physics cop" (2005 to 2011).

Cindy Pillote, Secretary

Cindy Pillote is an attorney with the law firm of Snell & Wilmer. Her legal practice includes intellectual property counseling; patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution; related technology transfer; and licensing. Technical experience in, among other areas, nanotechnology, medical devices and products, life sciences, nutraceutical, cosmeceuticals, semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing, electronic commerce, mechanical devices, chemical processes and compounds, mining technology, and electronic communication. In addition to the various bar associations, Cindy is also a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the International Trademark Association, and the Licensing Executive Society. She is also a board member of the Arizona Nanotechnology Cluster, the Center for Applied Nanoiononics at ASU, and Community Health Charities, and chairs this year's Arizona Nanotechnology Symposium Committee. Before earning her law degree from Arizona State University in 1997, she had a professional career in engineering at Motorola and Digital Equipment Corporation and earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.S. in Materials Science Engineering from ASU.

Dr. Sudhama Shastri

Sudhama Shastri has spent 25 years in the semiconductor industry. He is currently involved in developing market strategy and driving product roadmaps in the Standard Products Group at ON Semiconductor. He previously led product design and technology development teams in CMD, ON Semiconductor, and Motorola. He received a BTech degree at the Indian Institute of Technology and MS and PhD degrees at the University of Texas, all in electronics engineering. He serves on the board of the Arizona Nanotechnology Cluster. He has over 50 publications and 20 issued patents.

Dawn Nagle

Dawn Nagle is the Director of Managed Hosted Sales at OneNeck IT Services, where she helps companies leverage cloud services and virtualization technologies to become more agile, secure, and competitive in the marketplace. Previously, she served as Trade Commissioner with the Canadian Consulate in Phoenix, where she drove the commercialization of research, the growth of trade, and investment in the fields of science and technology. She has organized many trade missions, including the First Canadian Aboriginal Trade Mission to Arizona, which focused on renewable energies and advanced technologies, several Ontario Health-IT Trade Missions, and multiple US Technology Commercialization Missions to and from Canada. She also served as International Sales Executive at Northrop Grumman Global Enterprise Systems, Regional Account Executive at Compuware Corporation, and Director of Business Enterprises Information Technology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dawn has a Bachelor's degree in education from Chicago State University. She serves on several boards and consults within Arizona.

Douglas L. Goodman

Doug Goodman is the President and CEO of Ridgetop Group, Inc., a well-established electronic prognostic and fault-tolerant semiconductor design firm in Tucson, and has an extensive background in Electronic Design, Metrology, and testing. He is a co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Arizona Nanotechnology Cluster. Doug has helped start several companies over the years serving the Semiconductor Industry, including Opmaxx (now part of Credence Systems), Environmental Metrology Corporation, and Ridgetop in Tucson. He has also served as VP of Engineering at Analogy, Inc., (now part of Synopsys) and held various managerial and engineering roles at Tektronix and Honeywell. Doug holds a BSEE from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and an MBA from the University of Portland. He has served as an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Arizona in Tucson and was named an Entrepreneurial Fellow by the University of Arizona, Eller College of Business in 2002. He received the Chairman's Award at the 2006 Governor's Celebration of Innovation in Phoenix for his contributions to Arizona's High Tech Industry.

Dr. Mike Petras

Dr. Petras received his BS degrees in Physics and Music, with a minor in Mathematics, from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and his MS and PhD degrees in Materials Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He spent 7 years at Bell Laboratories working on the development of high-speed silicon and gallium arsenide devices before joining Motorola's semiconductor division in Tempe, Arizona (now Freescale Semiconductor), where he has worked on a wide variety of device and process technologies. He currently works on silicon power devices, primarily for automotive applications. Dr. Petras holds 10 patents and has published over 40 papers on electronic materials and devices.

Dr. Brian Skromme

Prof. Brian Skromme received the B.S. degree (with high honors) in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980 and 1985,
respectively. He was Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore from 1985 to 1989, when he
joined the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State
University. There, he is currently Professor; he also served as Assistant Dean in Academic
and Student Affairs for the Fulton Schools of Engineering from 2011-19. He has authored
over 140 refereed publications in solid state electronics and engineering education and has
given 137 presentations at national and international conferences and workshops. He has
also spent time as a visiting researcher at Motorola and Freescale. His research centers on
compound semiconductor materials and devices, currently focusing on GaN and SiC for
electronic and photonic applications. He also performs research on engineering education,
including the development of tutorial software for that purpose (for which he received the
national Technology Integration Award from the Electrical & Computer Engineering
Department Heads Association in 2024).

Thomas McGlew

Thomas McGlew has more than thirty years of experience in the fields of semiconductor manufacturing and employee development. Tom has served as one of the founding Committee Members of the Northwest Semiconductor Workforce Development Consortium, as a Steering Member for the Arizona SEMI Committee, as a Board Member of the AZ Nanotechnology Cluster, and as a Member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). He is the Instructional Programs Development Specialist at the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center, with Project Management responsibilities for the Work-Ready Electronics program. Mr. McGlew is a certified instructor for numerous Management and Leadership Development Workshops and has spoken at two ASTD Technical Education Conferences on Mentoring in the Workplace.

Dr. Jack Hughes

John H. Hughes, MD, FACS was a Founding Member of the Nanotechnology Cluster of
Arizona and is an Adjunct Professor of Surgery for the Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD as well as serving the University of Arizona in areas of
Science, Engineering, and Technology. A graduate of Yale University and Cornell Medical
College, he served the US Army as a Combat Surgeon and the US Navy as Ship's Surgeon
on the USS Kitty Hawk among multiple assignments.

His strong interests in complex systems has interfaced with the faculty and students in the Department of Systems Engineering at the University of Arizona and with Upward Bound at Pima Community College in the past.

He was Director of Emergency Services of the University Hospital of the University of Arizona from 1977-1981 with academic appointments of Associate Professor of both Surgery and Family & Community Medicine.

Along with multiple areas of mentoring individuals in the Peace Corps and the Fulbright programs,
Hughes has done extensive work at the interface between neurosciences and cognitive science.
Applied systems analytics have related to electrical power production, grid updating ,and
transportation planning.

Interfacing Nanotechnology with Photonics and Optical Sciences, he now extends new initiatives into
Artificial Intelligence including both civilian and military applications and evolving areas of Human
Genetics, Human Behavior, Personalized Precision Medicine, Pharmacology and the Space Program.

A more complete CV can be obtained by contacting him directly at azcaptjack5@gmail.com