Adam Fletcher – President and CEO

Adam has over 22 years experience in the semiconductor industry in Europe, USA and Japan. His experience includes Procurement Systems, Sales Management, Strategic and Tactical Product Marketing, European Operational Management and Global Corporate Management. Adam has established, developed and managed, large multi-disciplined teams, generating sales revenues of $50M+pa. He has been directly involved with corporate acquisitions, disposals, HYB and IPO funding. Over the last 18 years Adam has worked directly with the development of many leading emerging Semiconductor companies with particular emphasis on OEM customer focused, regional and global demand creation, sales and marketing communication programmes. Adam’s key skill is in developing creative solutions to complex business issues and implementing them successfully. Adam holds numerous business and finance qualifications including an MBA from Aston Business School.
 

Preben Lohse – Vice President - Business Development – Northern Europe

Preben has over 16 years experience in the semiconductor industry in Europe and the USA. His experience includes Sales, Applications Engineering, European Product Management, Global ERP Business Project Manager and European Sales Manager. Over the last 10 years Preben has worked closely with the development of a leading Semiconductor manufacturer and several semiconductor start-up’s. Born and educated in Denmark, Preben lives in the UK and is able to both write and speak fluently in Danish, English, German and Norwegian. Preben holds an Electrical Engineering Degree and has significant experience in the design of micro-processors and TI DSP’s. Intel awarded Preben with their coveted Gold FAE status for his design wins and knowledge of their products and applications especially StrongARM.
 

Erik Gräfenschnell – Vice President – Business Development – Central Europe

Over the past 19 years Erik has been directly responsible for the business development and growth of over 20 emerging semiconductor companies in Central Europe, with a bias towards complex microprocessors, storage and communication products. With significant experience in complex contract negotiation and communication Erik has successfully managed and motivated multi-disciplined teams.  Erik lives in Unterhaching a suburb of Munich, Germany and is fluent in both spoken and written English and German languages.  Having initially qualified with an Electronic Engineering Degree, Erik has recently completed studying for a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) Degree.
 

Pietro Provolo – Vice President – Business Development – Southern Europe

A semiconductor industry veteran with over 35 year’s experience, Pietro started out as an Application Engineer for what is now STM. Having held Technical, Engineering Management, Sales Management and Executive Management positions at Varian, Mostek and Sprague, Pietro was most recently Managing Director of Unique Memec. Pietro lives in Milan, Italy and in addition to his native Italian, Pietro is fluent in English, French, Spanish and advanced level in Portuguese and German. Pietro holds an electronics engineering degree and wrote some of the first Italian books and articles on Semiconductor design techniques.
 

Jeff Weigel – Vice President – Business Development – US

A semiconductor industry veteran with over 35 year’s experience Jeff has held sales management roles at Motorola, National Semiconductor and Vitesse Semiconductor. Jeff has worked primarily in the US but as Managing Director Europe for Vitesse gained significant exposure to European business practice whilst living in Germany. Jeff now lives in Manhattan Beach, California and acts an advisor to a number of emerging semiconductor companies. Jeff holds an electronics engineering degree.
 

Harald King – Technical Advisor

Harald has over 20 years experience in the semiconductor business in Europe, including Product Management, Applications Manager, Marketing Manager and European Sales Manager. Harald has worked closely with the development of several established semiconductor manufacturers, however over the last 10 years he has been instrumental to the success of semiconductor start-up’s in Europe. Born and educated in Germany, Harald has lives in Munich and is able to write and speak fluently in German and English. Dr King completed his PhD thesis on “Laser Optical Analysis” following his Degree in Theoretical Physics.