John Ryan - VP, Engineering

John Ryan has worked in the Semiconductor Industry for 26 years first as a key technical contributor in the mixed signal area and more recently as a technical and business manager.  He has worked in the startup domain for most of this time at Ventritex Inc a manufacturer of Implantable Defibrillators (IPO 1991), Parthus Inc. in  IP licensing (IPO 2000) , Ceva Inc. (Nasdaq: CEVA) a licensor of DSP cores,  Glonav Inc a fabless semi  which was acquired by  NXP in 2008 and more recently in ST-Ericsson where he was responsible for their GPS product development.  He has published several papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences and is inventor/co-inventor on 10 US patents.