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Infineon Technologies

Maher Matta is President of Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. responsible for over 6,000 employees, and all global customers and businesses based in the Americas. As a key strategic focus for the company, Maher is driving decarbonization and digitalization efforts in the region. Prior to becoming president, Maher served as senior vice president for Infineon’s Power Sensors & Systems (PSS) division, leading the business and product lines based in the Americas, and vice president and regional center head responsible for PSS’s go-to market teams in the region. He was also responsible for the Silicon Valley Innovation Center (SVIC), working with customers, startups, and universities to find emerging applications that can be enabled by Infineon IP and technologies. Maher has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and has served in leadership and marketing roles in companies such as Analog Devices, Maxim and Intersil. Maher holds a B.S and M.S in Electrical Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He has also completed executive business training from UC Berkeley & INSEAD.

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<p>Daniela Koeppe-Bourgeon is the vice president for communications and public policy for Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. In this role, Daniela is responsible for leading internal, external and executive communications and public policy efforts for the company in the Americas region, driving brand awareness, fostering stakeholder relations and engaging employees around Infineon&rsquo;s company culture, business and regional strategies.</p><p></p><p>Daniela has over 20 years of experience managing broad global communications responsibilities, working in the U.S., Germany and France, and leading global teams across the Americas, Europe, China, Japan and Southeast Asia regions. Most recently, Daniela led global communications for TI&rsquo;s technology and manufacturing organization after managing executive and employee communications for several of TI&rsquo;s strategic business entities. Prior roles included external communications for TI&rsquo;s medical electronics business strategy and leading the media and analyst relations team for TI&rsquo;s Europe, Middle East and Africa region.Daniela is based in Dallas, Texas, with regular presence in Infineon&rsquo;s San Jos&eacute; office. She holds a master&rsquo;s degree in Communications from Universit&auml;t der K&uuml;nste and a bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Business Communications for English and Spanish from Friedrich-List-Oberschule, both in her hometown of Berlin, German.</p>

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Andreas Urschitz, Chief Marketing Officer and member of the Management Board at Infineon Technologies, has been with the company for 30 years and has always driven technological solutions to shape the decarbonization and digitalization of the world. Infineon's energy efficiency technologies enable energy savings along the electrical conversion chain, from green energy generation to lossless transmission and less consumption. He has always had the firm conviction that technical development should not be an end in itself, but should make life better and the world safer and more livable. Andreas grew up on a farm and learned early on how important it is to make sustainable choices.

Idealab

Bill Gross is a lifelong serial and parallel entrepreneur who has started more than 150 companies with more than 50 successful IPO’s and acquisitions. He started Idealab, the first and longest-running technology incubator in the world in 1996 in Pasadena, California, near his alma mater, Caltech, where he graduated with a degree in Engineering and Applied Science. Bill has been on the forefront of disruptive innovation his entire life and his mission is to challenge the status quo, to be bold, and to solve big challenges in the world. Among the transformative changes that he invented is the business model that powers most of the monetization of the Internet. Bill invented the “paid click”, or CPC (bidded keyword cost-per-click) model with the company GoTo/Overture, which he founded in 1998. After a successful IPO and becoming the global market leader in paid search, the company was acquired by Yahoo in 2003. Today, Bill’s pioneering idea is used by Google and millions of websites around the world and remains one of his most significant impactful inventions. Bill spent many years addressing climate tech, with innovative companies like Energy Vault, Carbon Capture, WaterFromAir and NuCube. Bill is currently in the world of AI tech and is pioneering a new system of fair attribution and compensation in generative AI with his newest company, ProRata.ai. Bill is a visionary who sees the future and relishes sharing that with the world and helping entrepreneurs globally with his lessons learned from a lifetime of business creation. In addition to serving as Idealab’s board chairman and the CEO of ProRata.ai, Bill is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the ArtCenter College of Design.

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Adam White has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He is currently Division President of Infineon’s Power and Sensor Systems (PSS) division, and previously served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of this division. Prior to Infineon, he was International Rectifier’s Executive Officer and Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales, holding the responsibility for all demand creation activities throughout direct, distribution and representative sales channels globally. Since joining International Rectifier in 1996, Mr. White held a number of engineering positions within the company’s R&D, Marketing and Manufacturing teams. In addition to his power management semiconductor expertise, Mr. White has extensive global demand creation experience in developing, deploying and managing many aspects of the Sales, Field Application Engineering and Business Development Teams throughout the Americans, Asia, Europe and Japan. Mr. White holds a Diploma in Engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering with Industrial, BEng (Hons) DIS, IEEE, from University of Loughborough, United Kingdom.

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From 1995 to 2008, he held various management positions in the Memory Products Division (as of 2006 Qimonda). For example, he was responsible for DRAM Program Management, overall Technology Platform Management, Strategy & Global Planning, Product Line Management and, in early 2000s, was Head of Memory activities for the Americas region. Peter Schaefer received a degree in electrical engineering from the RWTH Technical University of Aachen, Germany.

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Since 2017, Thomas Rosteck has been President of the Connected Secure Systems (CSS) division at Infineon. CSS bundles wireless connectivity and computing technologies with its security capabilities to deliver innovative end-to-end solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) spanning smart home, smart industry, consumer and smart card applications. Previously at Infineon, he held various management positions including responsibility for the business lines Secure Mobile & Transaction and Embedded Security Solutions. Prior to Infineon, he worked with Siemens Management Consulting (SMC) in strategy development, business plan creation, innovation processes and production processes. He studied Business Management and Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Thomas Rosteck is also an active member of various advisory EU, government and industry bodies dedicated to advancing research, trust, standardization, certification and cybersecurity in an increasingly connected world. His mandates include: BITKOM Board member, Member of the ENISA Stakeholder Cybersecurity Certification Group, Member of the Fraunhofer AISEC Institute Board of Trustees, and Member of the Charter of Trust Board of Directors.

DG Matrix Inc.

Haroon Inam is a seasoned cleantech executive with 30+ years of experience across executive, product management, engineering, and operations roles, and with three successful exits. He co-founded DG Matrix; the company has a sales pipeline of US$2B in just 11 months of commercial work. Previously, Haroon served as Chief Technology Officer of Smart Wires Inc. from 2014 till 2023, where he led a global team of 200+ engineers and achieved significant product, supply chain, and business development milestones. He also helped raise $350 million in funding. Prior to Smart Wires, Haroon held leadership positions at companies including United Technologies, Honeywell, and more. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University and holds over 50 US patents.

Ekkono Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Company

Based in Sweden, Mr Lindén is one of Ekkono’s founders and a global pioneer in the field of Edge AI. He is a serial entrepreneur who prior to Ekkono brought Procera, a telecom company, from scratch to $100M+ in worldwide sales, moved the headquarters to Silicon Valley, and took it public on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange).

AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP

Amelia Hay is the VP of Startup Programming and Investments at AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP, an innovation ecosystem bringing together leaders in the $45T longevity market. Amelia leads various initiatives supporting the startup ecosystem. This includes sourcing startups, organizing pitch events, and executing the startup accelerator program. Additionally, she oversees all event and conference execution for the AgeTech Collaborative and manages startup investments. Prior to this role, Amelia spent over 20 years specializing in financial planning and analysis at MCI, Verizon, and AARP, focusing on business modeling and case building for new products and multi-year projects.

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As Chief Digital and Sustainability Officer, Elke Reichart has been a member of the Management Board of Infineon Technologies AG since November 2023. After graduating in Romance philology, economics and postgraduate studies in applied computer science, she began her career in 1991 at Hewlett-Packard Inc. In her 26 years at HP, she took on various management roles in Europe and the USA, establishing herself as a transformation and digitalization expert. As Chief Digital Officer, she successfully led TUI AG through its digital transformation from 2018 to 2021. Before joining Infineon, she held supervisory board mandates at SUSE SA, Bechtle AG, and the esure Group, and still holds a mandate at TRUMPF SE.

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Alexander is responsible for Infineon Technologies AG’s global Frontend Operations Cluster after holding positions as Head of the Backend Manufacturing Cluster as well as Board Member of Infineon Technologies AG’s Power & Sensor Systems Division. In his role as Division Chief Operating Officer, Alexander has overseen global operations as well as technology, innovation, and software. Alexander holds an MBA from the University of Regensburg, Germany and started his professional career in the semiconductor industry at Siemens Semiconductor, later carved out as Infineon Technologies. During his time with Siemens and later Infineon, he served in several management positions in operations, supply chain, and key account management. Before re-joining Infineon in November 2016, Alexander served for almost a decade as a Member of the Management Board and Group COO at Conergy, a leading global renewable energy company focused on solar.