Management
InvenSense has assembled a strong executive management team comprised of seasoned technologists, operations specialists, marketers, and industry pioneers. InvenSense’s leadership has years of experience in development and commercialization of state-of-the-art technologies and production for mass-market applications.
InvenSense continues to expand its management team with seasoned Silicon Valley technology veterans who bring expertise in MEMS, mixed-signal ICs and high-volume fabrication, as well as proven global technology marketing and sales management with experience in key markets.
Steve Nasiri, Founder, President & CEO
Mr. Nasiri founded InvenSense from his home in early 2003 and received the company’s first funding in April of 2004. During this period, he developed the novel product concept of the MEMS gyroscope and the low-cost, high-volume fabrication process known as, “Nasiri-Fabrication”. These efforts have led to the filing of the four core patents for the company, including the dual-axis gyro design and the vertical MEMS fabrication process. These patents are now responsible for the development of world’s first integrated dual-axis gyroscopes which is the company’s flagship products and being shipped in millions of units to major OEM companies around the world.
Mr. Nasiri is a 28-year veteran of the MEMS industry with expertise in fabrication and packaging of various types of MEMS products. His extensive knowledge of MEMS fabrication technologies was instrumental in his ability to conceive the design of the "Nasiri-Platform" and creation of a novel mirror design for Transparent Networks, where Mr. Nasiri was a co-founder and served as the Vice President of Operations and MEMS Development.
Mr. Nasiri has been the co-founder and early stage executive at some of the leading MEMS companies in Silicon Valley including: SenSym (Honeywell), NovaSensor (GE), Integrated Sensor Solutions (TI), and ISS Nagano. He has been responsible for successful deployment of over 50 sensors and MEMS-based products with cumulative shipments in excess of 100M units.
Mr. Nasiri received his MBA from Santa Clara University, a MSME from San Jose State University and a BSME from the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored over 40 patents (issued and pending) and many articles in the MEMS field.
Ram Krishnan, PhD, VP of Operations
Dr. Krishnan is responsible for world-wide operations at InvenSense including Manufacturing and Quality. He brings over 30 years of cross-functional experience to InvenSense, having started his career as an R&D Engineer and gaining additional experience in Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing and General Management. His most recent positions were as Vice President and General Manager of the Fiber Optics Division at Agilent where he led the $250M, 1200-person division to profitability and later as Vice President of Operations at Avago Technologies, where he drove a major cost reduction program through production outsourcing to China.
Dr. Krishnan has also served as an executive at several startups, as VP of Operations at LuxN, and as VP, Process and Quality Engineering at Ion America (now Bloom Energy) where he established a Test lab in India for characterization of fuel-cells. Much of his career has involved developing and manufacturing high-volume products including sensors, fiber optic transceivers and fuel cells.
Ram Krishnan received his BS from IIT, Madras, India, MS from Duke University and Ph.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley, all in Mechanical Engineering.
Daniel Goehl, VP of Sales
Mr. Goehl is responsible for worldwide sales activities and is focused on working with all key consumer electronics makers to build on InvenSense’s market leadership. He has led similar sales and business development initiatives at companies such as Nazomi Communications, CSI Wireless, Meridian Wireless and Omni Telecommunications.
Mr. Goehl brings over 14 years of senior management experience in sales and marketing for start-up companies in semiconductor and wireless technology markets. He has developed and launched sales channels for several pre-revenue companies that resulted in multimillion dollar revenues and led to successful company acquisitions. He has established worldwide sales channels in Asia and Europe for selling components to mobile phone makers and has sold wireless location management equipment to Fortune 500 companies.
Mr. Goehl has a BA in Economics from the University of Illinois and attended Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan for International Business and Japanese language studies.
Joseph Jiang, VP of Business Development
Mr. Jiang is responsible for InvenSense’s business development initiatives that will lead company into providing complete solutions for our key customers serving DSC, DVC, PND and Handsets markets. Previous to Invensense, he was the founder and CEO of Mobilic Technology where his multimedia chips successfully penetrated into the mobile phone markets. Prior to that, Mr. Jiang was vice president of marketing and sales at IC Media Technology, a pioneering company in CMOS image sensors where he successfully led IC Media's worldwide marketing and sales team to achieve design wins at leading digital and PC cameras and camera phone module makers in China and Taiwan.
Mr. Jiang brings over 20 years of senior management experience in marketing and sales in the semiconductor industry at other companies including NeoParadigm Labs, Applied Materials and Cadence Design Systems He has successful defined and launched several market leading products.
Mr. Jiang has a BS in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in HsinChu, Taiwan and MS in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University.
Andrew Green, Director of Finance and Administration, Corporate Controller
Mr. Green is responsible for finance and accounting, legal and human resources at InvenSense. He has over 17 years of financial and management experience including division, corporate and consulting roles in high technology companies. He has held Director of Finance and Controller at several successful start-up companies including Berkana Wireless and IC Works and managed their acquisitions and integrations into Qualcomm and Cypress Semiconductor, respectively.
Andrew held various controller positions at Cypress Semiconductor with responsibility for worldwide revenue, segment reporting, international accounting and sales and marketing, and timing technology organizations. Mr Green spent eight years at Ernst & Young L.L.P. in the USA and New Zealand where he served as a manager specializing in audit and business consulting services for primarily high technology and manufacturing companies.
Mr Green is a New Zealand Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Otago.