2024 ECE External Advisory Board Members - College of Engineering

Board members

Kaihan Ashtiani (MSECE’90, PhDECE’95)

Corporate Vice President and General Manager

Lam Research

Steve Bishop (BSEE’90 )

Partner

Perkins Coie

Hilary Brown (PhDECE’17)

Manager, Energy Transport and Delivery Modeling – Transmission

Xcel Energy

Aref Chowdhury (PhDECE’01)

Vice President Strategy and CTO, Network Infrastructure

Nokia

Marwan Estiban (BSEE’91 )

Director – Engineering, Electronics and Smart Tech, K&B Group

Kohler Company

Stephen Fusi (BSEE’97, MSECE’00)

Chief Brand Officer

North Carolina Central University

Tom Garvens (BSEE’91 )

Vice President of Advanced Technology Innovation, Google Data Centers

Google

John Mulligan (BSEE’88)

Strategic Advisor

Target

Phil Nwafor (BSEE’03)

Google Cloud – Healthcare and Life Sciences – Head of Sales/GTM-HCLS Key Accounts

Google

Ketan Paranjape (MSECE’97)

SVP, COO Enterprise Imaging Optum

Optum

Michael Rabbat (PhDECE’06)

Director, Research Science

Meta

Subbu Rama (MSECE’05)

Chief Executive Officer

BalkanID

Carolyn Richards-Chacon (BSEE’93)

Board Vice-chair

Vice President, Edge Processing Operations Engineering

NXP Semiconductors

Jeffrey Schmitz (BSEE’81)

Mentor, University of Texas Venture Mentoring Services

Austin Technology Incubator

Vikrant Soman (MSECE’09)

Senior Staff Solution Architect

Uber Metal

Niv Sundaram (MSECE’02, PhDECE’08)

Board Chair

Vice President, AI Customer Engineering

Intel Corporation

Pradeep Tagare (MSECE’91)

Vice President and Head of Corporate Venture Fund

National Grid

Mike Tendick (BSECE’98)

Vice President – Global Business Development

Plexus Corporation

Sarah Tower (BSEE’96)

Fellow Silicon Design Engineer

AMD

David Washington (BSCMPE’04)

Partner GM Bing Multimedia Experiences

Microsoft

Electrical & Computer Engineering 2024 ECE External Advisory Board Members

Board members