Board of Directors
MEMSCAP Board of Directors is today composed of 4 members, including 3 independant members. Each member has been chosen for his/her analysis and recommendation qualities, as well as for their extensive knowledge of our business and technology, along with the business of our customers.
Jean Michel KARAM
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Jean Michel Karam has 17 years of experience which started in R&D in the French National Center for Scientific Research.
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In 1997, Dr. Karam created MEMSCAP, the leading provider of innovative solutions based on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology.
In 2001, he led the Company €101 million ($140M) Initial Public Offering on the NYSE Euronext stock market. To date, MEMSCAP acquired 6 companies in France, Israel, Norway and USA.
He received a Ph.D. in Microelectronics as well as Engineering degrees from ESIEE-Paris and from the
University of Paris VII. He is the co-founder of many high-technology companies, inventor / co-inventor of more than 50 patents, author/co-author of over 250 scientific and economic publications and winner of multiple international awards.
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Joël Rodriguez ALANIS
Independent Board Member
Joel Alanis is President and chief executive officer of Alma Capital Finance SAS (France), and of Placeo SA (France). He also was former CEO of Opsitech.
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Christopher PELLY
Independent Board Member
British, former Operations and Business Financing
Vice-President Euorpe of Digital Corporation, then Chief Financial
Officer of ETF Investment N.V for which he was permanent representative
to MEMSCAP Board of Directors until June 27, 2005, Christopher Pelly
became an independent board member in 2005.
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Mr Pelly is not a board
member of any other French company. Il was permanent representative of
ETF to the boards of directors of Itim Group Ltd (UK) , and was board
member of E-Work Exchange Inc (USA), ETF Group (Switzerland),
Buildonline (Holdings) ltd (Ireland), eGovernment Solutions ltd
(UK),and eGovernment Solutions ltd (UK).
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Bernard COURTOIS
Independent Board Member
Research Director for French CNRS, Director of TIMA, the combined
research entity of CNRS associated to INPG and UJF, and Director of CMP
services that is servicing Universities and Companies from about 60
countries for ICs/MEMS prototyping and small volume production, Bernard
Courtois is a reference in applied technology for MEMS.
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With over 30
years experience in various fields linked to microelectronics and MEMS,
he chairs various international conferences and workshops. He is a IEEE
Computer Society’s Golden Core member and he is Doctor
Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Budapest and board member
of iROC Technologies (France), and NanoSprint (France).
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