Company

Management Team

Mark Swoboda

Chief Executive Officer

Mark brings over 27 years of experience in the LED, solid state and semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Intematix, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Bridgelux, Inc, where his vision transitioned the company from an R&D and chip design business into a vertically integrated solid state lighting product company. Prior to Bridgelux, Mark served as Executive Vice President of Philips Lumileds, where he led sales, marketing, applications and custom product development teams that pioneered the power LED product class and developed high-growth markets in applications including automotive forward lighting, mobile phone camera flash, LED backlighting and general lighting. Additionally, Swoboda spent 17 years with the Hewlett-Packard Semiconductor Products Group in various sales, marketing, and channel management positions.

Mark earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Marquette University.

Maurice Carson

Maurice Carson

Chief Financial Officer

Maurice brings over 20 years of financial expertise with prior CFO experience at two public manufacturing companies leading the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Intematix, Maurice was CFO and executive vice president for Actel, a $200 million fabless semiconductor leader. At Actel, Maurice led all finance, accounting, investor relations and IT with extraordinary strategic vision. Before Actel, Maurice served as CFO and senior vice president of Kulicke and Soffa, a $700 million manufacturer of semiconductor equipment. He also served as vice president of finance at Cypress Semiconductor and has held various financial management positions at Epigraphx, Kraft FoodService and Motorola Corporation.

Maurice earned a Master of Business Administration from University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science from University of Colorado.

YiQun Li

Dr. Yi-Qun Li

Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Li is the co-founder of Intematix Corporation, and currently serves as Executive Vice President and CTO. Dr. Li continues to play an instrumental role in growing Intematix and has led in developing the technology, building teams, establishing subsidiary companies, strategically marketing products, and positioning Intematix as a leader in the solid state lighting industry through the expansion of components and lighting products.

Before founding Intematix, Dr. Li spent 20 years pioneering material innovations and developing products, achieving several important material science breakthroughs including passive piezoelectric-magnetic sensors, non friction of Diamond-Like Carbon coatings on HDD head against disk, and high temperature superconductor thin films by MOCVD. To date he has published more than 50 scientific papers, holds 28 issued US patents and 50 pending US patents.

Dr. Li has also served as Research Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, Research Engineer at semiconductor companies EMCORE and ATMI, and Executive at start-up companies NZ Applied Technologies and Spinix Corporation.

Dr. Li earned a Doctorate and Master of Science from Stevens Institute of Technology in the United Sates, and a Bachelor of Science from Northeastern University in China, all in materials science and engineering.

Steve Barlow

Steve Barlow

Chief Commercial Officer

Steve Barlow brings to Intematix over 20 years of marketing, sales and business development experience in the semiconductor and high technology components industry. Prior to joining Intematix, Steve served as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Philips Lumileds where he successfully grew the business during his tenure. His global sales and marketing experience includes development and deployment of innovative distribution and sales representative models (including experience building the sales and distribution channel at semiconductor start-up Velio Communications) and business development such as pioneering new applications for LED technologies in automotive, consumer and lighting applications. He also held senior sales management positions at Hewlett-Packard’s Components Group in high technology product areas including RF and microwave communications, fiber optics and high speed communication IC’s.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University and received his Masters in Business Administration from Santa Clara University.

Tom MacMitchell

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Tom MacMitchell brings over 20 years of both legal and technology experience to Intematix. Prior to joining Intematix, Tom was Senior Director of Legal Affairs at Brocade Communications Systems, a $2+ billion data networking public company. While at Brocade, Tom led corporate securities, financings, merger and acquisitions and other strategic transactions, corporate governance, international subsidiaries, employment and other legal functions.  Tom also worked for Cooley LLP, where he represented technology companies ranging from venture-backed startups to mature public companies, and handled a wide variety of transactions, including public and private equity offerings and other complex business transactions.

Tom earned a Juris Doctorate from UC Davis School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.