Ali Pourkeramati

Ali Pourkeramati gained more than 35 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Most recently as managing partner at Influence Capital Partners, Inc.. He held several different roles at Spansion Inc. and Cypress Semiconductor from 2005 to 2015, the latest as Executive Vice President of Memory Product Development, Corporate Senior Vice President of Business Development and M&A, General Manager of Flash Memory Division and CTO. Ali was founder and CEO of Azalea Microelctronics Corporation a Non-Volatile Flash Memory Company from 1995 to 2004. Before that he was Vice president of Design Engineering at ICT Inc.. He held several different positions in Non-Volatile Memory Design Engineering at International CMOCs Technology Inc. and Signetics Corporation. Ali received his M. Sc. in electrical engineering at Santa Clara University and B. Sc. in electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University. More than 15 patents in Non-Volatile Memory and related subject are owned by him.