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Board of Directors

Bert Bruggeman

Bert Bruggeman was the founder SVTC Technologies and original architect of the Lab to Fab TM concept. Under Mr. Bruggeman's leadership, SVTC has become an innovative business model and a leader in the emerging area of technology commercialization services. Mr. Bruggeman has also held the role of Vice President of Operations and General Manager for SVTC where he instilled a passion for operational excellence and a commitment to customer success. 

Mr. Bruggeman brings a wealth of experience to SVTC having held several leadership positions in the field of technology development, commercialization and operations within the semiconductor industry.  His roles have included Vice President at MEMC and Senior Director of Process Technology Development and Worldwide Foundry Operations at Cypress Semiconductor.  Mr. Bruggeman was also the Director of Operations and Product Engineering at Silicon Light Machines, a start-up in the field of optical MEMS devices.  He began his career at the IMEC R&D facility in Belgium.

Mr. Bruggeman has authored and co-authored over 20 publications in the field of process development and semiconductor operations and is a US patent holder. Mr. Bruggeman holds an MSEE from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. 

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J. Taylor Crandall

J. Taylor Crandall is a Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners and has been part of the firm since 1986. Mr. Crandall has senior responsibility for originating, structuring and managing investments for the firm's Media and Telecom and Technology industry groups. Prior to joining Oak Hill, Mr. Crandall was a Vice President with the First National Bank of Boston, where he managed a leveraged buyout group and the bank's Dallas energy office. Mr. Crandall earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Bowdoin College, where he has served on the Board of Overseers.

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Robert Morse

Robert L. Morse, Jr. is a Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners and is responsible for investments in the Technology industry group. Prior to joining Oak Hill in 2001, he worked at GCC Investments, a growth private equity firm, as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners and in business development at Loudcloud, Inc. Morse earned a BSE degree, summa cum laude, in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

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Luis Arzubi

Luis Arzubi is a general partner of Tallwood Venture Capital. His vast past experience - more than 30 years in various engineering, management and executive roles with IBM - brings a distinctive and valuable technologist and customer point of view to Tallwood's practice.


Before joining Tallwood, Luis was a member of the executive team for IBM's Microelectronics Division. Most recently he served as Vice President and General Manager for the division, where he was responsible for all the semiconductor business segments. During the 1990s he played the key role in moving IBM Microelectronics into the OEM business and making it succeed.

Earlier, Luis was the General Manager for IBM's Burlington, Vermont, site, where he was responsible for two mega fabs and the development lab. From 1986 through 1991, Luis was Lab Director at IBM's General Technology Division, where he was responsible for all of IBM's non-bipolar semiconductor technologies and product development activities.

Luis currently serves on the boards of directors of Cavendish Kinetics, Qspeed Semiconductor, Sandbridge Technologies, and SVTC Technologies. He is the inventor of five key memory patents and has published more than two dozen technical papers.  Luis holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from the National University of Littoral in Argentina.

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George Pavlov

George Pavlov is a General Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital and has been working with the firm since its founding in 2000. In addition to serving as an operational advisor across all of Tallwood's business verticals, Mr. Pavlov is also responsible for initiating, structuring and managing investments for the firm. Mr. Pavlov joined Tallwood from eTime Capital where he served as the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to eTime Capital, he previously served as a General Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Mayfield Fund, a Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Blum Capital Partners, as well as several financial and sales management positions at NeXT Computer.

George Pavlov currently serves on the boards of directors of Alphion Corp., Amulaire Thermal Technology, Astute Networks, Audience, Calypto, Crossing Automation, Pixim, Quintic, and SVTC Technologies.

He holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Boston College.

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Dr. Kenneth Kin

Dr. Kenneth Kin served as Senior Vice President, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TSMC), where he had responsibility for global Sales, Services and Marketing. He has also held the role of Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services of IBM Microelectronics, Vice President and Director of Operations for the Computer Group at Motorola Inc. and served in various Sales and Marketing roles for several other Asia Pacific companies in the computing and telecommunications markets.

Now retired from TSMC, he holds the position of professor and Associate Dean for the National Tsing Hua University's College of Technology Management in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Dr. Kin graduated with a Ph.D. and a master's degree in nuclear engineering and applied physics from Columbia University in New York, and holds a bachelor's degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.

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Ajit Manocha

Ajit Manocha is currently Chief Executive Officer of GLOBALFOUNDRIES and is a 28-year veteran of the semiconductor industry. Mr. Manocha has held several senior executive and management positions at Spansion, NXP, Philips Semiconductor, AT&T Microelectronics and AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Prior to joining the Board of Directors for SVTC, Mr. Manocha was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations and a key member of the Executive Management Board at Spansion. In his post, Mr. Manocha was responsible for all aspects of the company's global manufacturing operations, IT and supply chain management. Previous to this, Mr. Manocha served as Executive Vice President and Chief Manufacturing Officer at NXP (formerly Philips Semiconductor) where he was responsible for worldwide manufacturing, supply chain management and purchasing.

Mr. Manocha has served on a number of industry and business boards including International SEMATECH, the Crolles Alliance, ASMC and as Chairman of the Board of Directors for SSMC in Singapore.

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