Nick is currently Chief Operating Officer of Silicon Catalyst, LLC, the world's only incubator focused exclusively on accelerating solutions in silicon. Previously, Nick was Vice President of Products for SuVolta, a semiconductor technology IP company. From 2009 to 2011, Nick was Vice President of Corporate Program Management and before that Vice President of Design Enablement at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Prior to GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Nick spent 23 years at AMD in a variety of management and technical roles concluding with Vice President, Advanced CMOS Process Technology Development. At AMD Nick led the development of process technologies from the 0.50 micron through the 28nm generation, both internally and through multi-company partnerships, including transfer to volume manufacturing and optimization of design/technology interactions. Nick holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.