Roy Meade

Meade is a veteran of the semiconductor industry, with more than 25 years of experience ranging from manufacturing to technology development. He has managed multiple logic and mixed-signal products in high-volume production fabs, led manufacturing of fiber optic components and guided manufacturing development for multiple in-package chips. Most recently, he was vice president of Manufacturing for Ayar Labs, a San Francisco Bay-area firm developing silicon photonic chiplets. There he led process development and fabrication efforts, among other roles. An inventor with more than 90 patents, Meade has extensive experience solving development challenges. Meade earned an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School at Duke University.