David Farkas

David Farkas has over 25 years of experience in the wireless electronics industry in both the commercial and defense areas. Prior to co-founding Nxbeam Inc., David founded Active Wave Technology (AWT) which specializes in the development of custom millimeter wave circuit products focusing on GaN, InP, and GaAs technologies. Prior to AWT, David was Assistant Department Manager at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS) responsible for developing high frequency integrated circuit products. David also held the position of Section Head within NGAS’s semiconductor foundry responsible for developing High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) technology. Prior to NGAS, David was a Senior Design Engineer at Multilink Technology Corporation and Design Engineer at Hughes Space and Communications where he developed MMICs for optical and wireless communication systems. David earned his BSEE and MSEE degrees from The Ohio State University with emphasis on electromagnetics while working as a graduate research associate at the Electroscience Laboratory. David has over 15 technical publications.