Science & Technology

• Graduated from high school at the age of 16 and started working in high-tech industry at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) at 17.
• Put himself through community college and San José State University while working full-time at AMD.
• Went from the lowest employee level position, as a test operator, to the second highest, as the executive vice president of Wireless Flash Memory Group, during his tenure at AMD.
• Currently CEO of venture-backed Kovio, the first company to print silicon ink-based integrated circuits.

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Notable CSU Graduates in Science & Technology

Diane Anderson	Patricia Compas-Markman	Robert Embree	Kevin Evans
Norm Fjeldheim	Kosta Grammatis	Joel Heinrichs	Said Hilal
Margaret (Peggy) L. Johnson	James Kardach	Matthew R. Landano	Pervaiz Lodhie
Amir Mashkoori	Robert Meza	Peter Oppenheimer	Mark Otero
Rebecca Rhoads	Jeanne Sheldon	Nancy J. Stoyer	William H. Swanson
Farhang (Frank) Zamani