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Jeff Brower, President & CEO
Mr. Brower's engineering management and design experience includes products and
systems in the areas of communications, oil exploration, defense electronics, space
exploration, telecom, control systems, acoustic/audio algorithms, and industrial
automation. He is a system architect and designer, as well as expert at software,
hardware, and logic design, and a range of programming languages and operating
systems.
At Gearhart (now part of Halliburton) Mr. Brower helped develop complex signal
processing algorithms for measurement-while-drilling systems, extracting drill bit
sensor information sent via mud pulse to the surface. Rates of 4 bps achieved by
Gearhart's signal processing team in 1983 still compare well with state-of-the-art
systems running 6 to 10 bps.
At E-Systems (now Raytheon) Datacom group Mr. Brower was a software engineering
team leader for the MARC rapid deployment communication shelter. Next generation
MARC systems continue to be deployed by USAF Air Mobility Command at flash points
around the world.
In 1984 Mr. Brower co-founded Hyperception, acquired by National Instruments in 2004,
and in 1991 he founded Signalogic to provide infrastructure and system-level
solutions based on DSP technology. At Hyperception, Mr. Brower was co-author of the
Hypersignal software package, still in use today at industry, academic , and R&D locations.
During his career at Signalogic, Mr. Brower has been responsible for creating a range
of software and hardware products, including DirectDSP software and PC104 and PTMC
board product lines. In addition, he has worked on-site and/or on a consulting basis
with technical and management personnel at a wide range of organizations, including
JPL, military installations, Texas Instruments, Sanmina, Motorola, Lucent and major
defense subcontractors and suppliers.
Mr. Brower maintained a top 10 class ranking in academics and military at the
U.S. Air Force Academy from 1978-1980, and graduated with a BS in Electrical
Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1982.
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William B. Heye, Jr., Chairman
Mr. Heye’s experience spans large and small businesses. During his 18 year career with Texas Instruments he rose from product engineering in semiconductor manufacturing to become President of Texas Instruments Asia Limited, headquartered in Tokyo, with responsibility for TI’s semiconductor business in the Pacific with revenues of over $250 million. He grew Texas Instruments Taiwan Limited from 500 to 4,000 persons, supplying product to customers on a worldwide basis. As Vice President, Consumer Products, he managed operations and sales in the United States and Europe.
More recently, Mr. Heye was President, CEO, and member of the Board of SBE, Inc. of San Ramon CA, a NASDAQ publicly traded telecommunications firm in Silicon Valley with revenues of $32 million, selling critical infrastructure wide area connectivity to Cisco, Compaq/HP, Lockheed Space.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of PowerFactor-1 a fabless semiconductor company in Cupertino CA. Member Board of Directors of Ten-X Technologies, Inc. of Austin TX. Consultant to Texas A&M’s Office of Technology Commercialization for expansion of the university’s business startup program. Advisor to A&M System Board of Regents. Member of Texas A&M President’s Council of Advisors, member of Development Council of the George Bush School of Public Service. Texas A&M Distinguished Alumnus 1991.
BSEE from Texas A&M University. MBA from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar).
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