Jeff Wittich is the Chief Product Officer at Ampere. Jeff has extensive leadership experience in the semiconductor industry in roles ranging from product and process development to business strategy to marketing. Prior to joining Ampere, he worked at Intel for 15 years in a variety of positions throughout the company. Most recently, he was responsible for the Cloud Service Provider Platform business, driving global market reach, product customization, and ultimately defining the products and platforms being used across the cloud worldwide. While at Intel, Jeff also led a product development team responsible for 5 generations of Xeon processors. He received an Intel Achievement Award for his work in developing the Custom CPU program.
Jeff has an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Mark M. Tehranipoor is the Intel Charles E. Young Preeminence Endowed Professor in Cybersecurity at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. His current research projects include hardware security and trust, electronics supply chain security, IoT security, counterfeit IC detection and prevention, and reliable systems design. He has three patents and has published eight books, 11 book chapters and 350 papers. His projects are sponsored by both the industry (Texas Instruments, Freescale, Comcast, Honeywell, LSI, Mentor Graphics, Juniper, R3Logic, Cisco, Qualcomm, MediaTeck) and the government (NSF, ARO, MDA, DOD, AFOSR, DOE). He is a golden core member of IEEE.
Since 2024, Serge Nicoleau has served as Group Vice-President of Technology at STMicroelectronics, where he is responsible for defining, implementing, and driving the R&D governance of Digital and BCD technologies.
He began his career at STMicroelectronics in 1998, focusing on manufacturing management at the 200mm Crolles fab near Grenoble. Over the years, Serge has held various positions in manufacturing, process engineering, and equipment engineering. In 2004, he joined the Crolles 300mm fab as part of the Crolles2 Alliance between STMicroelectronics, Motorola/Freescale, and Philips/NXP. By 2007, he was promoted to Director of Industrial Technologies, and in 2012, he expanded his responsibilities as Deputy Director of Operations for both the Crolles 200mm and 300mm fabs.
In this role, he tackled the industrial challenges of Automotive and IoT products, working with technologies ranging from 0.5μm to 28nm critical dimensions, including their various variants and options. In 2018, Serge was involved in the new STMicroelectronics 300mm fab program in Agrate, Italy, supporting Smart Power, Analog Mixed Signal, and eNVM products.
In 2020, he assumed the role of General Manager of the Technology & Design Platforms organization, overseeing digital technologies, fast analog technologies, embedded memories, and optical sensors. This organization includes teams in France and India, focusing on the digital products of STMicroelectronics.
Serge Nicoleau holds an Engineering Degree from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), a master’s degree in Theoretical Physics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Lyon), and a PhD in Particle Physics.
Mohamed Awad leads the infrastructure line of business at Arm where he is responsible for leveraging Neoverse’s class-leading performance per watt to accelerate Arm’s growth across Cloud, HPC, 5G, and the Edge. Previously, Mohamed led Arm’s IoT line of business.
Prior to joining Arm, Mohamed spent 10 years in various leadership roles at Broadcom, including establishing the Mixed Signal Asic Products division and building its security and mobile payments business. Before Broadcom, Mohamed served in various leadership roles at Ember Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, and Avici Systems.
Mohamed has been named inventor or co-inventor on multiple patents throughout his career and holds a BS in Computer Science, from the University of Massachusetts.