APEC 2009 Plenary

Carl Blake

"PSMA Power Technology Roadmap 2009 summary"

Transphorm, Inc.

Carl Blake is the Vice President of Marketing at Transphorm and Co-Chair of the PSMA Power Technology Roadmap committee of PSMA. After completing a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of New Haven (Connecticut, USA in 1972, he began his career with Raytheon as a Power Systems Design Engineer gaining experience in power supply, RF and logic design. During his career he worked his way up through the many levels of engineering, program management, manufacturing management, and marketing in the power and RF systems segments. In 1991, he moved to the semiconductor industry bringing customer understanding into the product definition process. Since that time he has been actively involved in new semiconductor product definition for the power conversion industry. His first talk at an APEC plenary session was in 1994 when he presented a 10 year future view of the MOSFET industry, accurately predicting the growth of synchronous rectification. This year he will present some of the interesting trends shaping the power conversion industry for the next 5 years.

Andrew Fanara

Title - TBD

"United States Environment Protection Agency Climate Protection Partnership Division"

Mr. Fanara works on the ENERGY STAR Product Specifications Development Team which helps businesses and individuals protect the environment by identifying products with superior energy efficiency and water savings. Mr. Fanara’s team is responsible for writing product specifications and for teaming with manufacturers to encourage the design, manufacture, and sale of products that meet them. More than 50 product categories have been created for the residential and commercial sectors. To date, American consumers have purchased more than 2 billion ENERGY STAR qualified products. In 2007 alone, Americans with the help of ENERGY STAR – avoided greenhouse gas emissions of more than 37 million metric tons, equivalent to those from 27 million vehicles, while saving $16 billion in utility bills. Mr. Fanara is currently leading the effort to develop ENERGY STAR specifications for datacenter IT equipment. He is also responsible for managing policy coordination with countries using ENERGY STAR in their markets. This includes Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Canada, China, the UK and the European Union; many of which are coordinating with EPA on data center energy efficiency efforts. Previously with the agency, Mr. Fanara worked on the EPA’s Green Lights Program, which assisted commercial enterprises with the implementation of energy-efficient lighting upgrades. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and has worked for the EPA for more than 10 years.

David Perreault

"Opportunities and Challenges in Very High Frequency Power Conversion"

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Perreault received the B.S. degree from Boston University and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Electrical Engineering. He is presently Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include design, manufacturing, and control techniques for power electronic systems and components, and in their use in a wide range of applications. Dr. Perreault received the Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, and is co-author of four IEEE prize papers.

John Weil "title tbd" Freescale Semiconductor

Jack Wagner

"Lithium Ion Battery Technology For Automotive Applications"

A123 Systems

Jack earned his BSEE from Rutgers University in 1985. He has worked in and around the semiconductor industry for more than 20 years beginning with RCA Solid State Division in Somerville, NJ. He has held various positions from integrated circuit test, product and design engineering to field applications. More recently Jack was a research engineer at Ford Motor Company’s Fuel Cell Center helping develop their Lithium ion battery management system for plug-in hybrid fuel cell vehicles. Most notably in 2007 Jack was part of the team that set a land speed record for a hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle based on a production car, the Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999. Currently Jack is working at A123 Systems developing hardware and software for Lithium ion battery pack management.

Cian O'Mathuna

Title - TBD

Tyndall National Institute

Dr. Ó Mathúna is Head of the Microsystems Centre at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland. With a compliment of over 80 researchers, and an annual budget of €5M, the Centre incorporates two Research Groups - Microelectronics Applications Integration (MAI) and Life Science Interface (LSI). Dr. Ó Mathúna leads the MAI Group with research activities in Ambient Electronics Systems, Micropower Systems and Interconnection and Packaging. Dr. Ó Mathúna received B.E., M.Eng.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the National University of Ireland, Cork, in 1981, 1984, and 1994, respectively. From 1982 to 1993, he was co-manager of the Interconnection and Packaging Group, National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC), University College Cork, Ireland. In 1993, he joined the Irish Government-sponsored Programme in Advanced Technology, PEI Technologies (formerly Power Electronics Ireland), based at NMRC, as Technical/Commercial Director. In 1997, he rejoined NMRC as Group Director with responsibility for Microsystems. In 1999, he was appointed Assistant Director at NMRC with responsibility for microelectronics integration with research in Ambient Electronics, Biomedical Microsystems, and Energy Processing for ICT.

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