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Camgian Microsystems® has an experienced management team covering all aspects of the technical, programmatic, and financial facets of doing business in the government, industrial and commercial markets.

Dr. Gary Butler

Dr. Gary ButlerDr. Gary D. Butler is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Camgian Microsystems® Corporation. Since its formation in 2006, Dr. Butler has led the development and execution of the company's business strategy, which has included two acquisitions. These include fabless semiconductor company Theseus Logic, a leader in asynchronous integrated circuit technologies, and an engineering group and design facility of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. He has also established strategic relationships with a number of large corporate partners, including Camgian's selection as a protégé company to DRS Technologies, one of the world's largest suppliers of advanced military electronic systems.

Today, Camgian has corporate offices in three states, annual multi-million dollar revenues and technology development efforts in areas related to advanced embedded networking technologies and ultra-low power integrated circuits supported by organizations such as the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Camgian's current intellectual property portfolio includes more than twenty patents in the area of advanced low-power semiconductor technologies. In 2009, Camgian received the Governor's Cup Award from the Mississippi Development Authority, was named as one of Mississippi's Companies to Watch by the Mississippi Technology Alliance and the Edwin Lowe Foundation and was listed as one of Mississippi's top 100 private companies by the Mississippi Business Journal.

Prior to founding Camgian, Dr. Butler was a senior staff member in the Washington, DC office of Internet pioneer BBN Technologies where he led technology development programs in the areas of advanced networks, ultra-wideband communications and radar, and signal processing technologies. At BBN, Dr. Butler was elected for membership in the company's senior science organization, a rank representing approximately the top 10% of the research and development staff, received BBN's annual best DARPA revenue award, and was elected as a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Over his career, he has captured and led research programs totaling more than $25M in funding, co-authored publications on the application of wavelets to signal analysis and has been awarded patents related to the application of genetic algorithms to signal classification and multi-static ultra-wideband radar signal processing.

Dr. Butler received his PhD from the University of Cambridge where he studied engineering and was a member of Churchill College. He received the Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS degree in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University and a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Tulane University. At Tulane, Dr. Butler was a scholarship athlete, a four-time varsity football letterman, and named an NCAA and Entergy Corporation Winning for Life Scholar Athlete.

Dr. Butler is a member of the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Committee of Visitors, the Oxford and Cambridge Club of London, the Golden Triangle Boys and Girls Club Board of Directors and the Tulane University Athletics Advisory Council.  He also serves as a regional contact for Cambridge in America.

 

Dr. David Lamb

Dr. David LambDr. David Lamb is the Chief Operating Officer of Camgian Microsystems®. Prior to joining Camgian, David was CEO of Theseus Logic Inc. He has held senior industry and university positions in both the USA and UK and has extensive experience in developing advanced technologies. David was Associate Director at the Honeywell Technology Center where he managed a broad portfolio of technology areas including data acquisition systems, wireless communications, photonics, information processing systems, and flat panel/head mounted displays. He received the Lund Award, Honeywell's highest award for managerial excellence. David has Ph.D. and M.Sc degrees from London University, as well as, B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University.

 

Mr. Ryan Jorgenson

Ryan JorgesonMr. Jorgenson is Vice President of Engineering of Camgian Microsystems®, and has more than 19 years of experience in the development of electronic systems, ASIC products and clockless design methodologies. He has managed and worked on a wide variety of ASIC and product development projects for consumer, industrial and scientific applications in fields as diverse as oil-field instrumentation, telecommunications, bio-medical, data logging/tracking systems, and digital audio consumer electronics. Prior to joining Camgian Microsystems®, he was the Vice President of Engineering for Theseus Logic. Ryan has a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Engineering from the University of Calgary.

 

Mr. Danny Merchant

Danny MerchantDanny Merchant is the Vice President Advanced Microelectronics at Camgian. He has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and has 5 patents related to ASIC design methodology. Prior to joining Camgian, Danny was the Senior Director of worldwide CAD for Cypress Semiconductor where he was responsible for the electronic design automation software and the design methodology used to design all Cypress products. Danny has managed geographically dispersed teams of more than 40 people, has managed profit and loss centers, and has extensive experience negotiating multi-million dollar software contracts. Danny has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Mississippi State University where he has also been a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department advisory board. In addition to his role as Vice President, Danny is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Mississippi State.

 

Mr. Zvi Huber

Zvi HuberMr. Zvi Huber is General Manager, M2M Markets at Camgian. Prior to joining Camgian, Zvi had total of 11 years with Stellar Satellite Communications and Orbcomm as a General Manager and Sr. VP Sales with responsibility for business development, engineering management and all other aspects of hardware development for Orbcomm’s satellite network. Zvi also brings significant experience in manufacturing engineering and management through 6 years as a plant manager and other senior positions at Lutron Electronics in PA.

During his tenure with Stellar, Mr. Huber has secured a multi-year development and production contract with Delphi Electronics, and later signed one of the largest contracts ever executed in the M2M transportation market. Mr. Huber brings with him significant management experience in multiple business and engineering disciplines and an intimate knowledge of the M2M market whether mobile or fixed. Mr. Huber is a recognized leader in the M2M global arena and has conducted business in numerous countries around the globe.

Mr. Huber holds a B.Sc in Industrial Engineering from Tel-Aviv University and M.Sc. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Lehigh University.