Hooman Foroughi

Hooman Foroughi currently serves as Vice President and Head of Global Applications and Systems Engineering at Renesas Electronics, overseeing the Embedded Processing division. With a strong background in application and systems engineering, Hooman has held multiple leadership roles, including Senior Director and Director of Application Engineering, where strategic vision and global team management were pivotal in advancing microcontroller and semiconductor solutions. Prior experience includes serving as Section Software Manager at Crossmatch, leading a high-performing software team in biometrics, and a Senior Embedded System Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where contributions included establishing offshore firmware teams and developing critical low-level firmware. Hooman's career began as an Embedded Software Engineer at Harris Telecom and Motorola, complemented by advanced education in Information Technology and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland and the University of Florida.