Ben Dowlat

Ben Dowlat has over 30 years of experience in the field of power system design and management. Ben started their career at Ford Aerospace, where they worked as a Senior Principle engineer, responsible for defining the power system architecture for Space Station Alpha. Ben then moved on to Nortel Networks, where they served as a Senior Power System design engineer, focusing on power system and architecture development for data switches and PBX sub-systems.

After that, they worked at Cherry Semiconductor as a Principle Application Engineer, managing field application engineering responsibilities and significantly increasing the company's revenue in the western United States and Canada.

Ben then joined Intersil Corporation as a Principle Application Engineer, collaborating with sales and marketing teams to improve market share and customer support.

At Texas Instruments, they first served as a WW Strategic Marketing Manager for the computing power segment, managing a team of marketing and system engineers and focusing on product definition, roadmap generation, and customer support. Ben later became the Manager of the E2E Architecture team, leading a team of Power Systems architects and optimizing overall power system architecture for various target systems.

Currently, Ben Dowlat holds the position of Senior Director at Micrel, where they have P&L and worldwide marketing responsibilities for the Datacomm, Industrial, and Automotive business unit. Ben manages the roadmaps of various highly integrated power management products and ensures their successful design, fabrication, marketing, and customer support.

Ben Dowlat attended The University of Texas at Austin, where they studied Electronics. No specific start or end year was provided.