Dr. Charles Smith; Chairman of the Technology Advisory Board (TAB)
Professor at the Cambridge University, UK Member of the Semiconductor Physics group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge University, UK Founder of Cavendish Kinetics Ltd. in 1994. Focus on: Fabricating state of the art sub-micron semiconductor devices. This includes the development of techniques for investigating the quantum properties of low dimensional devices in a non-invasive manner Investigating the combination of micro-mechanical devices with single electron charging Over 100 publications and several patents Won several grants over the past 5 years.

Prof. Gabriel Rebeiz
Prof. Gabriel Rebeiz is a well known RF-MEMS luminary. He received his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology and was a Professor at the University of Michigan from 1988-2005. He joined the University of California, San Diego, in 2005. He is an IEEE Fellow, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, an URSI Koga Gold Medal Recipient, IEEE MTT 2003 Distinguished Young Engineer, and is the recipient of the IEEE MTT 2000 Microwave Prize and the the IEEE MTT 2010 Distinguished Educator Award. He is also the recipient of the 1998 Amoco Teaching Award given to the best undergraduate teacher at UM, and the 2008 Teacher of the Year Award UCSD. Prof. Rebeiz has graduated 40 PhD students and some of his students have become leaders in the wireless and defense industry. He leads a group of 25 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows in mm-wave RFIC, microwave circuits, RF MEMS, planar mm-wave antennas and terahertz systems, and is the Director of the UCSD/DARPA Center on RF MEMS Reliability and Design Fundamentals and author of RF MEMS Theory, Design, and Technology.

Drs. Wilbert G. M. van den Hoek
Drs. van den Hoek is involved with a variety of companies in the Semiconductor and Nano-materials space, either as a member of the Technical Advisory Board or as a member of the Board of Directors. He retired in February 2008 from Novellus Systems, inc. , where his last role was President and CEO of Novellus Development Company LLC., the venture arm of Novellus Systems, Inc.
Since joining Novellus in 1990, Drs. Van den Hoek has held numerous technical management positions, including Director of technology for Nippon Novellus, Senior Director of dielectric technology, and Vice President of the company’s High Density Plasma Business Unit and Vice President of the company’s Dielectric Business Group and Manufacturing organization. Since 1999, he was CTO and Executive Vice President of integration and advanced development with additional responsibilities in the area of Business development, Human Resources and as acting General Council.
From 1980 till 1990, Drs. van den Hoek held various management positions in the Philips Electronics Research Organization in both The Netherlands and the United States.  Drs. Van den Hoek received his Doctorandus degree in Chemistry from the Rijks Universiteit, Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1979.

Mike Smayling, Ph. D.
Mike Smayling is an industry veteran with over 30 years of experience. He is currently a senior vice president at Tela Innovations responsible for technology development and integration. Prior to joining Tela, he was the CTO of the Maydan Technology Center at Applied Materials where he developed advanced processes for sub-45nm technology nodes. Before moving to Silicon Valley with Applied, he was a TI Fellow at Texas Instruments responsible for DRAM, Flash, and mixed-signal technology development and productization.
He holds over 80 U.S. patents, and has >50 publications / presentations covering DFM, MOS devices, processes, Flash memory, LDMOS transistors, photolithography, and lasers. He was a lecturer at Rice University for over 10 years while at TI. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and represented TI and Applied at SRC. He received a BS degree from the University of Minnesota, and MS and PhD degrees from Rice University, all in electrical engineering.