President

Akrometrix

Neil Hubble has been the President at Akrometrix for the last few years, having shifted to this role after roughly 10 years of experience as an Application Engineer, followed by 5 years in charge of product development....

Attorney

F&B Law Firm, P.C.

Patrick E. Sebesta II focuses his practice on the complex needs of businesses. He works with F&B Law Firm’s corporate clients to analyze the risks of contracts and contract terms, advise employers regarding proposed courses of action, and avoid costly and unnecessary litigation....

Product Manager

LPKF Laser & Electronics AG

Studied business administration and industrial engineering with master's degree and specializing in production technologies, strategy development and technical sales. He joined LPKF Laser & Electronics in 2019 as a product manager and is responsible for the technical and strategic orientation of the Electronics Production Equipment solutions for the PCB and SMT industry....

Field Application Engineering Manager

Ventec International Group

Paul has more than 30+ years of experience in printed board (PWB) design and manufacturing. Paul has held senior positions in operations, quality, process engineering and field application engineering, at some of the top North American PCB manufacturers....

Head of R&D

ELECTROLUBE a division of MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions

Phil has spent his entire career within the coatings industry, formerly holding senior positions at Concoat, Humiseal and PVA. Phil’s wealth of experience has produced a thorough understanding of problems and processes associated with both materials and equipment, and he is responsible for leading the development of Electrolube’s world-class conformal coatings portfolio, where he has been instrumental in the development and commercialization of the first generation of UV cure coatings and has further undertaken the pioneering development of revolutionary 2K conformal coatings....

President

ITM Consulting

Phil Zarrow has been involved with PCB fabrication and assembly for more than 35 years. His expertise includes the manufacturing of equipment for circuit board fabrication and assembly of through hole and surface mount technologies....

Project Manager

Textile Research Institute Thuringia-Vogtland

Pulkit holds a Master of Science degree in Technical Textiles from the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Germany. In his thesis, he worked proactively to design and fabrication an intelligent compression bandage with textile electrodes for bioimpedance measurement on extremities during compression therapy....

Vice President/General Manager Product and Software Development

Cimetrix

Ranjan Chatterjee—Vice President & General Manager, Smart Factory Business—joined Cimetrix at the first of 2016. Previously he had worked as the General Manager for Motorola Solutions — Software Solutions from 2007 to 2015, and as the Manager — Automation Systems Business Unit at Motorola — Global Software Group....

Sr. Application Engineer

ZESTRON Corporation

Ravi Parthasarathy, M.S.Ch.E., is a Senior Application Engineer at ZESTRON Americas. As a long-standing member of IPC, SMTA, iNEMI and iMAPS, Ravi has presented numerous technical studies addressing critical cleaning challenges within the electronics manufacturing industry and is also actively involved in several IPC Task Groups....

President

Ray Prasad Consultancy Group

Author of the textbook Surface Mount Technology: Principles and Practice and over 100 papers, Mr. Ray Prasad is an inductee to the IPC Hall of Fame, the highest honor in our industry for his contribution to the electronics industry....