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William Cooper
William Cooper is a product marketing engineer for TI’s Microcontroller (MCU) business, focused specifically on the strategic development and positioning of MSP ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) microcontrollers. He also manages MSP MCU product launches and development tools. He joined Texas Instruments in 2012, rotating through sales, business development and marketing roles as a member of the technical sales associate rotational program. William holds BSEE, MSEE and MSM degrees from the University of Florida.
Brad Lane
Brad Lane is a product marketing engineer for TI’s Microcontroller (MCU) business with strategic marketing responsibilities for the Industrial and Factory Automation segments. Over his 19 year career at Texas Instruments he has gained expertise across the full range of embedded processing applications ranging from the launch of the MSP430 family to C6000 DSPs, OMAP and Sitara. After graduating from the University of Florida, Brad joined TI’s technical sales associate rotational program and has held roles across sales, field applications, business development and marketing.
Shailesh Thakurdesai
Shailesh Thakurdesai has been employed with TI since April'06 and is part of the MSP430 Product Marketing team located in Dallas. He has a total 17+ years of experience in the Semiconductor Industry and started as an Application Engineer at Philips India. During his tenure, he has experience on Application Engineering, Field Applications and Business Development primarily for Microcontroller based Applications in the Industrial Segment. He holds a bachelor of Engg degree from Mumbai University, India. Currently, he holds strategic marketing responsibilities for Building Automation and Smart grid Applications to drive business growth with existing and future MSP roadmap products.
Rafael Mena
Rafael is a systems architect inside of TI’s Microcontroller business and has over 20 years of experience in the design of electronic and system solutions. Rafael holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University and an MBA from University of Texas at Austin.
Brian Fortman
Brian Fortman is responsible for the Industrial Drives and Automation market for C2000™ real-time microcontrollers. Brian has 25+ years of experience in semiconductor marketing, sales and systems engineering and holds a BSEE from the University of Missouri – Rolla.
Loretta Faluade
Loretta has worked at TI for over 10 years. During her tenure she has held a variety of roles including a sales position where she closely supported customers in the Boston area and marketing supporting C6000 DSPs. Most recently she works as a marketing engineer supporting the C2000 product line.
Olivier Monnier
Olivier has been the director of marketing for TI’s wireless connectivity and IoT solutions since May 2014. Prior to this role, he spent 14 years in various positions at TI including worldwide smart grid marketing and business manager and application engineer for digital signal processors and microcontrollers. He has more than 15 years of experience in industrial and energy related applications.
Pearl Cao
Pearl is a product marketing engineer in the Wireless and Low Power Charger product line under the Battery Management business unit. She focuses on defining and executing the marketing strategy, which entails identifying opportunities, attracting customers and growing the business. Before this position, Pearl was a systems engineer for three years in the Wireless Power Transmitter group, where she focused on defining new products, driving industry standards, and supporting the complete design-in process with customers. Pearl has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto. Her awards include the Appreciation of Service Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Toronto section and the Best Paper Presentation Award at APEC 2011. She has also contributed three papers to IEEE.
Evan Cornell
Evan D. Cornell is a systems architect at Texas Instruments where he is responsible for developing reference design solutions for the industrial segment. Evan brings to this role experience in system-level analog, mixed-signal and power management design. Evan earned his Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering (M.Eng.) and Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN. Evan is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).