Management &
Board of Directors



Management
Scott Yoo (Ph. D), CEO/CTO

Dr. Scott Yoo has over 16 years of experience in the semiconductor and system technology industries. He has been a pioneer in numerous memory and digital chip research and development projects at Samsung Electronics and IBM, where he was awarded the Grand-prize of Technical Excellence and Outstanding Research Achievement Awards for the contribution to the development of 256Mb DRAM and high speed serial communication chips, respectively.

Dr. Yoo earned Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. He has published more than 25 technical papers and holds over 20 U.S. patents.


Steve Law (Ph. D), Executive Vice President of Business Development

Dr. Law has over 28 years of engineering and management experience in hardware, software and ASIC development. Over the past nine years, he held Executive Vice President and Vice President positions at XVD Corporation, TRB, Alaris Corporation and Optivision with responsibilities ranging from product manufacturing, ASIC and product development, chip production, development of high-end video/audio encoding and decoding systems and OEM sales. In 1990, Dr. Law co-founded and served as COO of Aptix Corp., where he was responsible for the invention and development of the FPIC programmable interconnect systems. From 1983 to 1990 he was a co-founder and R&D director at Cadence Design Systems. Starting his career at Bell Labs, Dr. Law invented the Gate Matrix approach to IC design and layout, co-invented Domino CMOS logic, and was a key designer of the first 32-bit CMOS microprocessors. In 2000, he received the prestigious IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award for IC design innovations and their impacts to the IC Design field. Dr. Law received a BS, MS, M Phil, and PhD all in EE from Columbia University in New York.


Mickey Choi, VP of Memory Engineering

Mickey Choi has over 14 years of experience in research & development of semiconductor memory chips and systems. He currently leads the technology and product development efforts for mobile memories and logic designs at ZMOS Technology.

Prior to joining ZMOS, Mickey Choi developed an array of memories such as 32Mb 1T SRAM, 4Mb to 64Mb SDRAM, 8 & 16Mb SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics RAM), and 2Mb VRAM (Video RAM) at AMIC Technology, Inc and Samsung Electronics. He also led development of MML (Merged Memory Logic) Products such as PRINCEVELLE & C69000 (16Mb SDRAM + Graphic controller) as part of the System LSI group of Samsung Electronics.


Cecil Conkle, Marketing Director

Before joining ZMOS Technology, Cecil Conkle spent over 26 years in engineering, marketing, and management in the semiconductor industry. His current responsibility is the marketing of the company’s products and technology. Previously he designed a variety of DRAMs, SRAMs, and ROMs for Advanced Micro Devices and American Microsystems using NMOS, CMOS, and VMOS technologies. Then he managed technical, tactical, and strategic marketing functions for memory products at NEC Electronics and Mitsubishi Electronics. Past industry affiliations include IEEE, JEDEC, and Advanced Memory International.

Cecil Conkle’s degrees are from Georgia Tech and Stanford University. He holds patents in circuitry for semiconductor memory products and gate arrays.


Justin Kim, President of Korea Subsidiary

Justin Kim has over 12 years of Research and Development experience in semiconductor memory chips. He is in charge of development of mobile memory products at ZMOS Korea, LLC.

Prior to joining the company, Justin Kim led the development and mass production of 4Mb to 32Mb CCSRAM (Compact Cell SRAM) at Silicon 7, Inc. in Korea. He also managed the 16Mb EDO, 16Mb & 64Mb Synchronous DRAM projects at Samsung Electronics.


Board of Directors


Steve Kang (Ph. D), Chairman

Dr. Kang has over 30 years of R&D experience in semiconductor chips and systems. He received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. He started his career with AT&T Bell Laboratories and also served as a faculty member of Rutgers University. In 1985, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign where he held many positions, most recently as Head of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. In January 2001, he joined the University of California at Santa Cruz as Dean of Baskin School of Engineering. Dr. Kang became Chancellor of the University of California at Merced in 2007.

Dr. Kang is Fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS, a Foreign Member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea, and is listed in the Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Technology, Who's Who in Engineering and Who's Who in Midwest. Most recently he is recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award in Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley (2001), IEEE Third Millennium Medal Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer (2003- Present) and holds 11 patents from U.S. Patent Office. Dr. Kang has published over 350 papers and co-authored eight books in the last 15 years.


Tae Ki Chung, Director

Mr. Chung has over 30 years of executive experience in Telecommunications and Publishing. He is currently CEO and Publisher of the Hankyoreh Daily Newspaper in Seoul, Korea. Mr. Chung has a Bachelors of Art Degree of Law from Seoul National University.


Deok-Soo Kim, Director

Mr. Kim has over 17 years of experience in the investment industry. He founded the KVC Net and KVC Investment companies in 1999 and 2000 and currently serves in both as the CEO. Mr. Kim has a BS in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University and a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology.


Sancho Park, Director

Mr. Park has over 20 years of experience in the EDA and electronics industries in Korea. Most recently he was Vice President of Korea IT Venture Partners, the leading Korean venture capital firm for the Information Technology, semiconductor, and electronics industries, and serves as a board member there now. Previously, he was a founder and the President of Davan Tech Co., Ltd., a provider of design automation solutions and the largest SoC design company in Korea. Mr. Park has held management positions at Synopsys, a leading design automation company, Valid Logic Systems (which became Cadence after a merger) and Hewlett-Packard and worked for the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute in Korea. Mr. Park has a BS in Information & Telecommunication Engineering from Hoseo University and an MS in Computer Science and an MBA from Ajou University.


Alex C. Wang (Ph. D), Director

Dr. Wang has over 26 years of experience in semiconductor memory business. His prior positions encompass product design, development, process technology, marketing, and executive management for semiconductors in general, particularly including DRAMs, flash memories, and SRAMs. Currently he is Vice President of Product Strategy at Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. (PSC) in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Previously he was the General Manager of the Memory Group at Winbond Electronics in Hsinchu and CEO of the design house Programmable Microelectronics Corp. in San Jose. Dr. Wang has also held engineering positions at Samsung, Intel, and Fairchild.

Dr. Wang is currently serving as Chair of the JSTC (Joint Steering Committee) of the WSC (World Semiconductor Council) representing TSIA (Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association). He received his BS in Physics from National Taiwan University, Taipei and his PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984.


Scott Yoo (Ph. D), CEO/CTO, Director


Larry Yoshida, Director

Mr. Yoshida has over 38 years of experience in the Japanese semiconductor industry. His responsibilities have included sales and general management. After designing power transformers for eight years at Osaka Transformer Corporation, he joined Tokyo Electron Ltd. in 1968. Mr. Yoshida retired as CEO and President in 1986. He then founded Innotech, made it a public company in 1991, and retired as CEO and Chairman in 2005. Mr. Yoshida next founded Premier Technologies, Inc. and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board. His degree is in Power Electricity from Osaka Prefecture University.