LEADERSHIP

Technical Advisory Board

 

Dr. Dubravko Babic, President, Etanvie Technologies
Dr. Dubravko Babic has over 20 years of experience in high speed fiber optic and electronic component design and manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication and device physics. Dr. Babic is a leading expert in the field of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). In 1995, he fabricated the world's first room-temperature continuous-wave operating long-wavelength (1550nm) vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser.

Dr. Babic's career includes founding Alvesta Corporation (1999), where he served as the company's CEO and CTO. Prior to Alvesta, he was Member of Technical Staff at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto and currently, is President of Etanvie Technologies, a technical and business development consulting firm focused on new photonic, electronic and nano-scale technologies with applications in communications, chemical and biomedical industries.

Dr. Babic received his Dipl. Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Zagreb, Croatia (1982), and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara (1995). Dr. Babic has over 100 publications/conference presentations, one book chapter, eighteen patents, and was awarded the "Michael Lunn Award"  for Best Paper at the 1995 Indium Phosphide and Related Materials Conference.

 

Dr. Stephen H. Lewis, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis
Dr. Stephen H. Lewis is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. He is a renowned authority on analog circuit design and co-author of the textbook "Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits" (4th Edition). His research interests include data conversion, signal processing, and analog circuit design. Dr. Lewis is President of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, and previously was a member of the Program Committee for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (1994-1998), Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (1994 to 1997), and Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (1998-2001). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

Dr. Lewis worked at Bell Laboratories from 1980 to 1982 and from 1988 to 1991. He received his B.S. degree from Rutgers University, M.S. degree from Stanford University, and Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering.

 

Stephen Zadig, Technical Advisory Board Member
Mr. Zadig brings over 30 years of Semiconductor Manufacturing Operations expertise to the Clariphy Advisory Board. With a primary focus on the start-up through IPO phase, Steve has served as founding VP of Operations at C-Cube Microsystems, Paradigm Technology, and Marvell Technology Group. He currently serves as the Vice President of Operations at Telegent Systems. While at C-Cube, he was a principal founder of the Fabless Semiconductor Association where he served as Chairman of the Forecast Committee for over 4 years. He brings extensive knowledge of high volume subcontractor management, team building and infrastructure development to support Clariphy’s Management Team.