BIOGRAPHY
Jan Gaudestad is San Francisco-based VP of Business Development at Wooptix, a small VC-funded company developing optical metrology equipment for the semiconductor fab market. He also serves on the board of directors for ElevATE, a fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego California.
Jan has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He worked on strategic accounts at InvenSense/TDK for consumer level motion sensors. He spent 14 years at Neocera, an Intel Capital funded backend semiconductor equipment company managing product development, global sales, applications, and new business development.
Jan received his MBA from Santa Clara University in 2009. He earned a master’s degree in physics in 2001 from University of Maryland, College Park, and a master’s degree in physics in 2000 from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.