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  Raouf Halim

  Chief Executive Officer

  Beginning in 2014, Raouf Halim served as CEO and co-founder of icClarity, developing a disruptive 3D video capture solution for applications in AR/VR, mobile, and automotive markets. Prior to icClarity he served for ten years as president, CEO, & board member of Mindspeed Technologies, where he rebuilt the executive team, repositioned their product portfolio, and executed a successful growth strategy for high-performance analog. Previously, Halim was a senior vice president and general manager at Conexant Systems, Inc., formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems. Mr. Halim joined Rockwell in 1991 and held a number of senior business and technical positions, including vice president, and design leader for VLSI engineering. He began his career at Hayes Microcomputer Products developing first-of-their-kind technologies and applications. Mr. Halim’s Master’s degree in electrical engineering was earned at Georgia Institute of Technology, and his bachelor’s degree in communications and electro physics was received from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. Mr. Halim holds 14 patents, and is active in a number of industry and community organizations as well as several advisory roles within the University of California, Irvine.

   

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  Dave Mier

  Chief Financial Officer (Interim)

  Dave Mier joined us in November 2023 as Interim CFO while Bonnie Tomei is on a personal leave of absence due to a family medical matter. Dave previously served as CFO at Spectra7 prior to his retirement in 2021. With more than thirty years of experience, Dave served as V.P. Finance, Americas Controller for Yahoo! and spent 19 years at Sun Microsystems in positions of increasing responsibility, including Finance Director for Northern Europe, based in the UK, and V.P. Finance for the Americas Time Zone. Dave holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from U.C. Santa Barbara and a MBA from California State University Fullerton.

   

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  John Mitchell

  Chief Marketing Officer

  John Mitchell was formerly Senior Director of Marketing at Quellan, a leading developer of high performance Analog Semiconductors until it was acquired by Intersil Corporation in 2009. Prior to his roles at Quellan and Intersil, John held senior management and strategic positions at several startups including LuxN and Scintera as well as Fortune 500 companies Unisys and Northrop Grumman. With a BS in Engineering from Purdue University, John established himself in design with half a dozen patents before moving into management. For the last 10 years, John has focused on product marketing with major design wins at multiple tier one consumer and data center OEMs.

   

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  Steffen Hahn

  Senior Vice President of Engineering

  Prior to joining Spectra7, Hahn ran Engineering at Kumu Networks, where he pioneered its unique same-channel “Full Duplex” technology and designed custom SoCs (Systems on Chip) using Silicon on Insulator technologies. Before Kumu, he was VP of Engineering at Scintera Networks (now ADI) working on fully stand-alone Power Amplifier linearization chips. Prior to Scintera, he was VP of Engineering at Intersil / Quellan (acquisition), developing noise cancellation solutions for cellular and handheld GPS as well as high speed equalizer products for copper channels, and at Airgo Networks (acquired by Qualcomm), where he worked on miniaturizing the first WiFi MIMO systems. His early career he spent at Philips Semiconductors on developing the technology and design environment for chips on glass.

   

  Hahn holds an M.S. degree from RWTH Aachen in Germany and has 41 granted patents.

   

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  Ronald J. Pasek

  Chairman

  Ron Pasek joined the Spectra7 Board in August of 2015. Mr. Pasek was the former CFO at NetApp, and prior to that, CFO of Altera Corporation before the company was acquired by Intel Corporation. Mr. Pasek also served as vice president and corporate treasurer at Sun Microsystems before his roles at Altera and NetApp. In his 19 years at Sun, he also held a variety of other positions in finance, including vice president of worldwide field finance, worldwide manufacturing finance, and U.S. field finance.

   

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  Roger Maggs

  Director

  Roger Maggs followed a 27-year career at Alcan Aluminum, with senior postings around the world, including three Vice Presidencies of the global company, based in Montréal, Québec. In 1994, he left Alcan and co-founded Celtic House, a leading Canadian venture capital fund. Mr. Maggs earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of Wales, and a Master's degree from Warwick Business School in the UK. He was made an honorary fellow of his college in 1998. Over his career, Mr. Maggs has held directorships on more than 30 public and private boards including Xcerra (Nasdaq :XCRA) and was chairman of Sandvine (TSX: SVC). In 2019 he was made an MBE of Great Britain.

   

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  Christopher W. Morgan

  Director

  Christopher Morgan was a partner at the international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and managed the firm’s Toronto office. During his 30 years at Skadden, he represented issuers and underwriters in cross-border public and private equity and debt financings by Canadian entities in the United States and other world securities markets. He advised clients in financings under the Canada/U.S. Multijurisdictional Disclosure System, as well as in a variety of other cross-border public and Rule 144A offerings and private placements.

   

  Mr. Morgan routinely represented public companies with respect to disclosure issues, corporate governance and compliance with applicable securities laws. He also represented Canadian companies in friendly and hostile cross-border transactions, including tender and exchange offers, mergers, asset acquisitions and divestitures, and reorganizations. In addition, he counseled financial advisors and special committees of directors in such transactions.

   

  Mr. Morgan lectures on cross-border securities law topics and repeatedly has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada for corporate law and Who’s Who Legal for Capital Markets.

   

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  Raouf Halim

  Director

  Beginning in 2014, Raouf Halim served as CEO and co-founder of icClarity, developing a disruptive 3D video capture solution for applications in AR/VR, mobile, and automotive markets. Prior to icClarity he served for ten years as president, CEO, & board member of Mindspeed Technologies, where he rebuilt the executive team, repositioned their product portfolio, and executed a successful growth strategy for high-performance analog. Previously, Halim was a senior vice president and general manager at Conexant Systems, Inc., formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems. Mr. Halim joined Rockwell in 1991 and held a number of senior business and technical positions, including vice president, and design leader for VLSI engineering. He began his career at Hayes Microcomputer Products developing first-of-their-kind technologies and applications. Mr. Halim’s Master’s degree in electrical engineering was earned at Georgia Institute of Technology, and his bachelor’s degree in communications and electro physics was received from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. Mr. Halim holds 14 patents, and is active in a number of industry and community organizations as well as several advisory roles within the University of California, Irvine.