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Saied Tehrani
Saied Tehrani is a semiconductor executive and engineer who has served as President and CEO of ESS Technology, the San Jose maker of the SABRE audio DAC and ADC chips, since 2019. With a PhD in electrical engineering and more than 30 years in the industry, he spent two decades at Motorola, helped pioneer commercial MRAM as a founder and COO of Everspin, ran a $500M microcontroller business as CTO of Spansion, and holds more than 75 US patents. In 2008 he received the IEEE Daniel Noble Award for the development of MRAM technology.
Kevin Conley
Kevin Conley is the CEO of Applied Brain Research (ABR), the Waterloo-based startup commercializing brain-inspired, ultra-low-power chips for edge AI. A 30-plus-year semiconductor veteran, he spent more than two decades at SanDisk - rising to Senior Vice President and CTO - then led Everspin Technologies as President and CEO. He is named on 90+ patents covering non-volatile memory architecture and management.