Management Team

Nahm-Wook Lee – President/CEO

CEO, President or Board Member: Samsung Information Systems and Sejin America in San Jose, Samsung Electronics, Samsung-HP, Samsung-IBM and Micro Five in Irvine, CA, Alphameric in London, UK Education: Seoul National University (KOREA), Waterloo Lutheran University (CANADA)

Allen Sweet, Ph. D., CTO - Engineering & Technology

35 years of engineering experiences, 25 journal articles, Chairman RF/Microwave Conference, California., March 1992, Ph.D. Electrical engineering & Physics from Cornell University.

Alex Yoo, Ph. D., Vice President – Engineering & Technology

20 years of experiences in the industry and teaching including 4 years at Samsung 4 inventions and over 20 publications Education: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University.

Calvin Chul Kim, Manager- Application and Marketing

9 years of experiences in the industry for R&D engineering, application engineering, production at Spectrian and Remec. Majored in Electronics at Kyungwon University.

Technology Board

Dr. Stephen Maas

Stephen Maas received BSEE and MSEE degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and 1972, respectively, and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 1984. Since then, he has been involved in research, design, and development of low-noise and nonlinear microwave circuits and systems at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (where he designed the receivers for the Very Large Array), Hughes Aircraft Co., TRW, the Aerospace Corp., and the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering. Subsequently he worked as an engineering consultant and founded Nonlinear Technologies, Inc., a consulting company, in 1993. He is also a principal of Applied Wave Research, Inc.

Dr. Maas is the author of Microwave Mixers (Artech House, 1986 and 1992), Nonlinear Microwave Circuits (Artech House, 1988; second edition 2003), The RF and Microwave Circuit Design Cookbook (Artech House, 1998) and Noise in Linear and Nonlinear Circuits (Artech House, 2005). From 1990 until 1992 he was the editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and from 1990-93 was an Adcom member and Publications Chairman of the IEEE MTT Society. He received the Microwave Prize in 1989 for his work on distortion in diode mixers and the MTT Application Award in 2002 for the invention of the FET resistive mixer. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Mehdi F. Soltan

Dr. Mehdi F. Soltan is currently a Consulting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

In the past he has served as President and CEO of Sunnyvale based Tavanza, Inc. and also held engineering positions at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems in RFIC design and at ICII in communications systems & DSP engineering.

Dr. Youngoo Yang

Dr. Youngoo Yang received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Pohang University of Science and Technology(Postech), Pohang, Korea, in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he was with Skyworks Solutions Inc., Newbury Park, CA, where he designed power amplifiers for various cellular handsets. Since March 2005, he has been with the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, where he is currently an assistant professor.