Board of Directors

Ronald L. Chez, chairman: Mr. Chez is president and sole owner of Ronald L. Chez, Inc., a corporation that deals with financial management consulting, public and private investment, structuring of new ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. He serves on the advisory boards of JP Morgan, Chase, and Hambrecht & Quist Access Technology Fund.

David A. Ahmari: EpiWorks' co-founder and executive vice president, Dr. Ahmari's primary research areas are GaAs and InP-based heterojunction bipolar transistors; device physics, modeling, and characterization of heterojunction bipolar transistors; integrated circuit fabrication; and electronic and optoelectronic integrated circuits. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998.

Quesnell J. Hartmann: EpiWorks' co-founder and president, Dr. Hartmann's primary research areas are high-performance heterojunction bipolar transistors; development of InGaP/GaAs and InP/InGaAs materials; characterization of compound semiconductor materials; MOCVD growth of compound semiconductor materials; and development of MOCVD production techniques. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998.

James M. Schultz: Mr. Schultz is co-founder and CEO/president of Open Prairie Ventures, Inc., a Midwest venture capital fund focused on investing in seed and early stage technology companies. As a serial entrepreneur, he has led management teams through sophisticated strategic development projects in such areas as patent product roll-outs, bio-medical marketing, and software development.

Raymond A. Milano: Dr. Milano is the founder and CEO of AmpTech, a San Jose-based, privately-held venture-backed company founded in 2006, to develop a power amplifier technology targeted at the emerging wireless broadband market. His expertise includes GaAs CCDs, GaAs MESFETs, high speed circuits, InP heterojunction transistors and power amplifiers. Dr. Milano has been working in the compound semiconductor industry since beginning his career at Rockwell Automation in Thousand Oaks California in 1979. He was part of the founding group of Vitesse where he spent 22 years. At Vitesse, Dr. Milano headed the Analog product group, which pioneered the volume manufacture of GaAs optoelectronic circuits for datacom and telecom applications, and was responsible for producing 15% of Vitesse's total revenues during his tenure. Dr. Milano received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1979.