With over 27 years of management experience, Mehrdad Nayebi has proven himself as an effective senior business executive in the semiconductor, telecommunications, broadcast, and consumer electronics industries. In addition to his engineering and technical expertise, Mehrdad Nayebi has overseen a number of large-scale organizations and led several multi-million dollar acquisitions. Mehrdad Nayebi began working in the semiconductor industry as a member of National Semiconductor’s research staff, designing and evaluating BiCMOS analog macros and BiCMOS gate arrays. After earning his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989, he became one of the two founding members of California Micro Devices, acting as the company's Director of Engineering. In addition to recruiting and managing the company’s original team, Dr. Nayebi was responsible for developing, planning, and producing the firm’s semiconductor products. In 1991, Mehrdad Nayebi joined Raytheon. As an ASSP Design Manager, he staffed and led a team of 15 designers working in video processing and data converters, ATE pin electronics, and avionics products. Dr. Nayebi next joined Sony Semiconductor as Director of Engineering and Marketing Consumer AVD, building the company’s mixed-signal business unit. During his time with Sony, he received a number of technical excellence awards and directly participated in more than 60 publications as first inventor. After more than a decade of managing high-level engineering departments, including acting as Executive General Manager of Intel’s 500-employee Optical Division, Mehrdad Nayebi shifted his focus to funding new high-tech ventures, including hardware semiconductor and software startups. As Executive Venture Partner at AiTech Software and ProComm, he initiated and ran an Angel Venture Fund with a group of industry associates and executives. In addition to acting as an incubator for early stage ventures, ProComm assisted its portfolio of companies in recruiting top-level executives and board members and strengthening their business and marketing strategies. In addition to his business endeavors, Mehrdad Nayebi supports educational programs in Middle Eastern villages and organizations working to cure lymphedema. He is also an accomplished public speaker who enjoys nature and travel and maintains a membership in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).