L.J. Reed - CEO and Chairman of the Board

LJ Reed has 34+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He retired from full time employment in the semiconductor industry in 2002 after a distinguished career serving in various technical and management positions with Motorola Inc. At the time of retirement he served as Corporate Vice President and Consultant to the Asia-Pacific Region.

His technical legacy includes the development of several "firsts" for Motorola, including the 10K, 10KH and 12K phased-lock-loop standard product families, Motorola's first product utilizing three-layer metalization and first integrated computer-aided design (CAD) system for application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design. Throughout the semiconductor industry, he is known for developing the industry's first three-layer-metal complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) arrays, the standard gate array families for emitter-coupled logic (ECL) and transistor transistor logic (TTL), and, in collaboration with other industry leaders, the open-architecture CAD standards for ASIC Design.

Notable positions that LJ held during his career with Motorola include Corp VP/SPS general manager of Japan, Corp VP/general manager of the Consumer Microcontroller Division, Corp VP/SPS director of the Americas region for the Consumer Systems Group, Corp VP/general manager of the Digital Consumer Division, Corp VP/general manager of the ASIC Division, VP/senior operations manager of the Bipolar Gate Arrays Operation. operations manager of the Bipolar Memories Operation, and Senior Design Manager of the Bipolar Digital Division.

In addition to his career in semiconductors, LJ served as a City Councilman for 2 years and as Mayor for 6 years of Gilbert, Arizona.

LJ has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona, holds 6 patents and is the author of several technical articles published in international technical magazines.

Wil Salhuana - President & Chief Marketing Officer

Wil Salhuana is a highly driven global executive with over two decades of experience in marketing, business development, operations and engineering in the semiconductor industry. Wil has built a successful career building start-up, high-growth businesses, and has accomplished this through careful strategic planning, working with great people, solid execution and building lasting partnerships.

Prior to co-founding HVVi, Inc. (HVVi), Wil was the VP & GM of the Broadband & Entertainment Division at Motorola, which he led from a startup to several hundred million dollars in sales and healthy profits. During his tenure, leading edge products were launched successfully, such as the 2.4 GHz wireless connectivity chip set for portable video games, DigiCypher security chip, DSP-based audio processors, video front-end devices and audio/video decoders. In 2000, Mr. Salhuana relocated to Japan for several months to secure new businesses and establish key customer partnerships in the gaming market. A result of these efforts was exemplified by the publicly announced introduction of wireless connectivity for Nintendo's portable gaming systems. In 2002, Mr. Salhuana was selected by the Motorola CEO as one of the top executives to attend a 2-week Executive Program held at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Wil has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado. Wil actively serves the community as a member of the Tempe Diablos.

Robert B. Davies - VP of Technology Development

Robert Davies is a prolific inventor, and a well-recognized authority in the field of device, process and circuit design. Mr. Davies is the inventor of the High Voltage Vertical (HVV) transistor, which represents the technology foundation for HVVi. The invention of the breakthrough HVV transistor is the result of Robert's unique expertise in semiconductor device and packaging, coupled with his circuit knowledge on how transistors are utilized in power amplifier applications.

Prior to co-founding HVVi, Mr. Davies was a senior technologist at Motorola and received the highest distinctions, including Dan Noble Fellow, member of the Scientific Advisory Board and Distinguished Innovator award. One of his key accomplishments was the invention of RF LDMOS (patent #5,155,563 issued in 1992), which is the highest performance and most widely deployed technology for RF power transistors. Thanks to the invention of RF LDMOS, Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor) continues to be #1 in this market with over 50% market share according to Gartner/Dataquest. In recognition for his work in RF LDMOS, Robert received the prestigious Motorola Patent of Distinction Award in 1997. After leaving Motorola in 1998, Mr. Davies founded Advanced Device Design where he developed a compelling semiconductor patent portfolio and provided consulting services to major semiconductor firms.

Robert has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University and has 80 issued patents.

Dave Lutz - VP of Engineering

Prior to joining HVVi, Dave worked at Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector in the RF Products segment. He held positions of increasing responsibility throughout his 27 years with the company starting as a RF power transistor designer and applications engineer. Dave has extensive design experience in vertical, lateral, and bipolar device structures for use in rugged RF applications from 20 MHz to 3 GHz, from small signal to greater than 400W single ended devices.

Dave was responsible for development of all production RF power transistors during Motorola's dominance of the RF power transistor market. In 1985 he became a Director in the RF Division, responsible for thin film, thick film, and wafer operations. He was key in the consolidation of the TRW RF devices acquisition, led construction of a second generation RF fab, and was the driving force in the development and manufacturing of Vertical RF TMOS and LDMOS structures, and low cost RF module substrates.

Dave has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.

Chris Link - Director of Global Sales

Chris provides an extensive RF/Microwave components, subsystem, and value-added engineering sales & marketing background to the HVVi management team. With over 20 years of experience, including early engineering positions with companies producing RF-intensive defense electronics and ground-based navigation systems, complimented by domestic and international sales and management roles with companies in direct sales, manufacturer’s representative, and distribution capacities, Chris brings to HVVi the knowledge base to build a world class sales organization to provide responsive, technical, and creative solutions to our target customer base.

Prior to joining HVVi in February 2008, Chris led the North American sales efforts for TeraVicta Technologies, an RF MEMS startup, and gained rapid customer acceptance of this emerging technology. As the Central Area Manager for Richardson Electronics, HVVi’s global distributor, Chris led a talented team of technical Field Sales Engineers and dedicated Inside Sales professionals noted for their technical support and service to their customers. Earlier positions for Allied-Signal Aerospace, Wilcox Electric, and M/A-COM provided the experience to understand the unique challenges of the RF Engineering community.

Chris has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri.