Boardroom Media (CFO News)
At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CFO’ operating in the Electronics space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Brian Sereda
CFO of Energous Corporation
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About Energous Corporation: Energous Corporation is the creator of WattUp, charging technology for electronic devices.
Brian Sereda
CFO of Energous Corporation
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About Energous Corporation: Energous Corporation is the creator of WattUp, charging technology for electronic devices.
Brian McGee
EVP, COO & CFO of GoPro
Brian McGee is the senior vice president and chief financial officer of [GoPro](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gopro#/entity), a brand of high-definition personal cameras used in extreme action video photography. Previously, he was the vice president for finance at the same company. He has also served as the vice president for business operations at [Qualcomm](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/qualcomm#/entity). McGee holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from [California Polytechnic State University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/california-polytechnic-state-university-san-luis-obispo#/entity). He lives in Los Gatos, California, United States.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Steven Gelsomini
CFO of EcoSense Lighting
Steven Gelsomini is the CFO at Ecosense Lighting.
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About EcoSense Lighting: EcoSense Lighting designs and develops lighting solutions for commercial and residential applications.
Patrick O’Malley
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Seagate Technology
Patrick O’Malley assumed the role of EVP & CFO effective August 25, 2008. In his previous role of SVP Finance & Treasurer, he was responsible for Corp. Accounting, Reporting, Treasury, Credit & Collections and Risk Management along with Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis and support for our Business Unit GMs, Sales & other functions. In October 2005, he returned to Finance from the Sales Organization where he coordinated the Company’s activities surrounding the Consumer Electronics market as the SVP, Consumer Electronics Business Development from January 2004. O’Malley joined Seagate in 1988 & has held various management roles within the Finance organization including Manager of Consolidation & Cost Accounting, Director of Finance – Corporate FP&A, Sr. Director of Finance for Oklahoma City Operations, Sr. Director of Finance for Desktop Design, VP of Finance for Recording Media Operations & SVP of Finance for Manufacturing Operations. Prior to joining Seagate, he spent four years as a Sr. Staff Accountant for Arthur Young & Co. O’Malley holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame (Class of 1984).
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About Seagate Technology, Seagate Technology: Seagate offers consumers and businesses with data storage solutions to create, share, and preserve digital content.
Paul Lundstrom
Chief Financial Officer of Flex
Paul Lundstrom is the chief financial officer at Flex, the manufacturing partner of choice that helps a diverse customer base design and build products to improve the world.
Mr. Lundstrom oversees the finance function, spanning corporate accounting, financial planning and analysis, internal audit, investor relations, tax, and treasury. In this role, he is focused on shareholder value creation and driving the company’s long-term financial framework, which includes consistent revenue growth, earnings expansion, cash generation, and disciplined capital allocation.
Prior to joining Flex, Mr. Lundstrom was vice president and chief financial officer at rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, a position he held since 2016. During his tenure at Aerojet Rocketdyne, the company benefited from strong shareholder value creation with growth in earnings, margins and cash flow. Previously, Mr. Lundstrom was with United Technologies Corporation (now Raytheon Technologies Corporation), where he developed a strong track record of driving profitable growth in global markets. During his tenure with UTC,
Mr. Lundstrom held several senior roles including vice president of investor relations; vice president and chief financial officer, Building & Industrial Systems – North Asia; vice president and chief financial officer, Climate, Control & Security – Asia; and vice president and chief financial officer, Carrier Building Systems and Services.
Mr. Lundstrom holds a Bachelor of Science in finance from Truman State University and an MBA from Columbia University. He is a registered Certified Public Accountant in the state of Illinois (inactive).
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About Flex: Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.
Through the collective strength of a global workforce across approximately 30 countries with responsible, sustainable operations, Flex delivers advanced manufacturing solutions and operates one of the most trusted global supply chains, supporting the entire product lifecycle with fulfillment, after-market and circular economy solutions for diverse industries.
Pierre-Emmanuel Evreux
Founder & CFO of Leia
Pierre has a passion for creating businesses with a profound competitive edge. Having moved from Wall Street to Silicon Valley to found Leia Inc. in 2013, Pierre believes that Leia Inc. is reimagining the way we experience and interact with content. Much more than nano-technology, it’s about humanity and beauty: allowing millions of people to get closer to the things they love. What Pierre loves the most is to see the smile on people’s face when they experience LitByLeia products for the first time.
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About Leia: Leia is an experience platform offering 3D Lightfield products and software applications.
Catherine Lesjak
Executive Vice President & CFO of HP
Catherine Lesjak has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Hewlett Packard Company (“HP”) since January 1, 2007 and was interim chief executive officer of HP from August 2010 through October 2010. As a 27-year veteran of the company, Lesjak has held a broad range of financial leadership roles across HP. Before being named CFO, she held the position of senior vice president and treasurer, responsible for managing HP’s worldwide cash, debt, foreign exchange, capital structure, risk management and benefits plan administration. Earlier in her career at HP, Lesjak managed financial operations for Enterprise Marketing and Solutions and the Software Global Business Unit. Prior to that, she was group controller for HP’s Software Solutions Organization and managed HP’s global channel credit risk as controller and credit manager for the Commercial Customer Organization. Lesjak earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Stanford University and a master of business degree in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Michael Hsu
Chief Financial Officer/Co-Founder of PERI
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About Curogram, PERI: PERI is a consumer electronics brand focused on Wi-Fi audio and power space components and accessories.
Laura Siegal
CFO of NEO Tech
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About NEO Tech: Electronic Manufacturing Services offers contract manufacturing, medical electronic manufacturing, PCB assembly, OEM and manufacturing
Mark Etnyre
Chief Financial Officer of SquareTrade
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About SquareTrade: SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances.
John Sines
CFO of Meta View
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About Meta View: Meta View is an electronic company that provides augmented and virtual reality solutions for various businesses.
Mark Dentinger
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of InvenSense
Mark Dentinger joined us in 2014 as our Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining us, Mr. Dentinger served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of KLA-Tencor Corporation from September 2008 to August 2013. Prior to joining KLA-Tencor, from February 2005 to April 2008, Mr. Dentinger served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for BEA Systems, Inc., until the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation. Mr. Dentinger was with BEA Systems for a total of nine years, during which he held various senior financial and managerial roles within the company. Prior to joining BEA Systems, Mr. Dentinger served in various financial management positions at Compaq Computer Corporation (now Hewlett-Packard) for six years, culminating in his appointment as Director of Finance, High Performance Systems Manufacturing in 1996. Mr. Dentinger received his bachelor’s degree in economics from St. Mary’s College of California and his M.B.A. in finance from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About InvenSense, Veritas Technologies: InvenSense provides motion-tracking devices for consumer electronic products such as smartphones, tablets, game controllers, and others.
Joe Campa
CFO of WiSilica
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About WiSilica: WiSilica’s platform is the smartest, most flexible way to converge infrastructure
Mahesh Karanth
CFO of Rockley Photonics
Mahesh Karanth is the chief financial officer. He is responsible for leading Rockley Photonics’ finance, legal and IT teams. Mahesh is a performance-driven financial executive with extensive experience in growth-oriented technology companies. He has a proven track record in raising financing, implementing IPOs and completing complex financial transactions. Mahesh was most recently Chief Financial Officer for Enlightened Inc., an enterprise developing advanced lighting control systems. Prior to this, he was CFO for Invensense, a pioneer in MEMS sensor technology, where he led the company’s expansion of finance, administration and operations leading up to its IPO in 2010. Prior to Invensense, Mahesh was the CFO for Telsima, which was successfully sold to Harris Stratex Networks. During the preceding nine-year period at Compaq, Mahesh held several senior roles including M&A, treasury and corporate development. He executed five large acquisitions over that period, set up multiple international operations and filed S1 to take Japan subsidiaries public on Nikkei stock exchange. After Compaq’s acquisition by HP, he led corporate development for the customer services group and several major services acquisitions of public listed companies in India and UK. He started his career at Ernst and Young, working in Singapore, Japan and India, progressing to partner. Mahesh holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Commerce & Finance, certifications as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Corporate Secretary, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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About Rockley Photonics: Rockley Photonics manufactures photonics chips and custom integrated packaged products.
Anna Brunelle
CFO of Ouster
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About Ouster: Ouster builds high-resolution lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and many other applications.
Susan L. Main
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Teledyne Technologies
Sue Main is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since November 2012. Prior to her appointment, Main was Vice President and Controller since March 2004. Main was Vice President Controller for Water Pik Technologies, Inc. since its inception on November 29, 1999. Main also held numerous financial roles at the former Allegheny Teledyne Incorporated in its government, industrial and commercial segments. Earlier in her career she held financial and auditing roles at the former Hughes Aircraft Company.
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About Teledyne Technologies: Teledyne Technologies provides electronic components, instruments, and communications products in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Canada.
Carol Bartholemy
CFO & VP, Finance of Seek Thermal
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About Seek Thermal: Seek Thermal engineers, designs, manufactures, and markets thermal imaging products and sensors.
Carol Bartholemy
CFO & VP, Finance of Seek Thermal
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About Seek Thermal: Seek Thermal engineers, designs, manufactures, and markets thermal imaging products and sensors.
Mike Soloviev
Acting CFO of WOWCube® System (CubiOs Inc.)
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About Roostify, WOWCube® System (CubiOs Inc.): WOWCube system is a puzzle cube with tangible interface where virtual gameplay is controlled by physically tilting, twisting shaking.
Alan Lefko
CFO of New Vision Display (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Alan Lefko is our Chief Financial Officer. He served as Vice President of Finance of Solar Power, Inc., a California corporation from December 2006 to December 2012. From July 2004 through December 2006 Alan served as Vice President Finance of International DisplayWorks, Inc, a manufacturer of liquid crystal displays and display modules. From February 2000 to July 2004 Alan was Corporate Controller of International DisplayWorks, Inc. From July 1999 to January 2000, Alan was the Chief Financial Officer of The Original Bungee Company (“Bungee”) in Oxnard, California, a manufacturer and distributor of stretch cord and webbing products. Alan was responsible for the reorganization of Bungee’s financing structure, establishment of an asset based lending program and implementation of cost accounting systems and controls. From 1989 to 1999, Alan served as Chief Financial Officer and Controller of Micrologic, a manufacturer and distributor of Global Positioning Systems and Vikay America, Inc., a subsidiary of Vikay Industrial (Singapore) Limited, based in Chatsworth, California. Alan has a BA degree in Business Administration and Accounting from California State University, Northridge, California.
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About New Vision Display (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.: New Vision Display is a manufacturer of custom LCD/OLED display and PCAP touch solutions for OEMs worldwide.
Cameron McAulay
CFO of Transphorm
As Chief Financial Officer, Cameron is responsible for overseeing all financial aspects of the company. Prior to joining Transphorm, he served as Finance Director, Global Customer Organization and Director of Internal Audit with KLA-Tencor Corporation. He also served as Finance Director and Group Financial Controller at Atmel Corporation and had a 7 year tenure at National Semiconductor Corporation in a variety of Operational and Corporate leadership positions including Chief Audit Executive. He holds a BSc. Mathematics, Statistics and Accountancy from Strathclyde University and is a member of the Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
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About Transphorm: Transphorm is a producer of gallium nitride-based solutions for high-voltage power conversion applications.
Andrew Skarupa
Chief Financial Officer of RealD
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About RealD: RealD develops the RealD Cinema technology for projecting films in stereoscopic 3D, using circularly polarized light.
Peter An T. Nguyen
CEO & CFO of Area51-ESG
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About Area51-ESG: A diversity electronic, electrical, and electromechanical components and assemblies distributor.
Suju Kwong
Vice President of Finance & CFO of BEMA Electronics
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About BEMA Electronics: BEMA Electronics is a premier provider of electronics manufacturing services.
Dianne Dubois
Chief Financial Officer of MOTA
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About MOTA: MOTA designs, manufactures, and markets innovative and stylish wearable and mobile consumer electronics.
Stephanie George
CFO and Director of Programs of Iridia
Ms. George brings over 25 years of FORTUNE 150 company expertise and is a certified PMI Project Management Professional. During her career, she has carried financial management and project responsibilities for budgets that were cumulatively in excess of $40M. Ms. George served most recently as IT Director at Novartis where she was responsible for managing a variety of high profile projects along with building an IT Software Quality team. Prior to that, Ms. George served for 17 years in IT management at Abbott Laboratories where she was responsible for management of IT enterprise system implementations and software development for Manufacturing, Sales Data Warehouse, Quality and Enterprise Integration applications for the Abbott Vascular division. Her leadership helped build the Abbott’s IT enterprise systems to meet business needs while seamlessly integrating with business processes in additional to ensuring FDA regulatory compliance. Ms. George holds numerous IT & PM certifications and obtained her B.S. degrees from San Diego State University.
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About Iridia: Iridia is a nanotechnology company that specializes in bio-chemistry, molecular biology, and DNA.
Todd B. Schull
EVP & CFO of TTM Technologies
Todd Schull is the EVP & CFO at TTM Technologies.
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About TTM Technologies: Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California TTM Technologies is a leading global provider of time-critical and technologically complex printed
Grant Burton
Chief Financial Officer, Head of Strategy & International of ecoATM
Grant Burton is the senior vice president for business development and operations at Outerwall. He also serves as a board member at Watershot. Previously, he served as the chief financial officer and chief operations officer of the same company. He has also provided his services as the senior vice president for operations and finance at [HYLA Mobile](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/erecycling-corps#/entity). Burton holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the [University of Saskatchewan](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-saskatchewan#/entity). He lives in San Diego, California, United States.
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About ecoATM: ecoATM is an e-waste recycling company. ecoATM kiosks evaluate and purchase used electronics from consumers for cash or store credit.
Dana Jiron
COO/CFO & Founder of Inland Empire Components
I am a principle and the Marketing & Business Development Manager at Inland Empire Components, Inc.(IECSolutions) and Independent Marketing Partner for Today’s Growth Consultants (TGC) and Incomestore.com. IECSolutions.com. provides buyers and engineers at OEMs and Contract Manufacturers with diminishing supply support for obsolete and hard-to-find electronic components as well as purchasing support. I have worked in every department and area at IEC with my focus on Business Development at Inland Empire Components, Inc. since 1989, a company my partner and I started from scratch with our own capital. Over the last 25 years at IEC, I’ve set up systems with my partner for marketing, sales, purchasing, human resources, inventory, finance, quality and customer service.
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About Incomestore, Inland Empire Components, Today’s Growth: Founded in 1989, Inland Empire Components, Inc. has grown from a two-person operation in a small, 250-sf office.
Daniel Weinblatt
CFO of Opener
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About Opener: Opener is an aviation firm that built a revolutionary aircraft with triple-modular redundant flight systems.
Tim Kingsbury
COO & CFO of Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG)
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About C3Nano, Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG): Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG) develops eco-friendly wastewater disinfection with the generation of renewable energy.
Ajay Vadera
EVP & CFO of Monster Products, Inc.
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About Monster Products, Inc.: Monster offers advanced solutions for musicians, stereo, video, computing, mobile, gaming, and high performance power products.
Autumn Jackson
CFO of Taction Enterprises
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About Taction Enterprises: Music Technology – Midi Control – Capacitive Sensor technology.
Richard Atkinson
CFO of Capstone Turbine Corp
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About Capstone Turbine Corp: Capstone Turbine Corporation® is the world’s leading producer of low-emission microturbine systems.
David Vanderhorst
CFO of TAITRON Components
David Vanderhorst is at TAITRON Components. He is Member of the Board of Directors at ForceField Energy.
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About TAITRON Components: TAITRON Components Incorporated is a “Discrete Component Superstore”, distributing a wide variety of Discrete Semiconductors.
Soren Thorvald
Treasurer & CFO of Portlet Power, Inc.
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About Portlet Power, Inc.: A Portlet™ is a portable outlet that allows any user with any laptop or tablet to charge their device anywhere.
Bob Connors
Chief Financial Officer of DCG Systems
Mr. Connors brings more than twenty years of senior finance experience to DCG Systems. He has held senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Macrovision, Energy Focus, and Micro Focus Group. During his career, Mr. Connors has led multiple firms through the process of going public on NASDAQ, and has completed fifteen acquisitions. Mr. Connors holds a BA in physics and mathematics from Occidental College, and an MBA in finance and accounting from Washington University in St Louis.
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About DCG Systems: DCG is equipment enables localization and characterization of electrical faults in integrated circuits, packages and board assemblies.
Doug Downs
Acting CFO of Proximal Data
Doug Downs joined Avalon as Chief Financial Officer in 2007. Mr. Downs has over 20 years of senior financial and operational experience in technology companies ranging from start-ups to large public companies. He has served as a board member and audit committee chair, and as CFO has led multiple public offerings and venture financings, and has also financed growth through domestic and international debt placements. As part of his role as CFO of Avalon, Mr. Downs brings his extensive relevant experience to many of Avalon’s portfolio companies. He is the part-time CFO of Otonomy, Zacharon, Afraxis, Avelas, Carolus, ReVision Therapeutics and InCode. He serves on the boards of directors of E-Band Communications and AwarePoint. Prior to joining Avalon, Mr. Downs provided part-time CFO services to a variety of technology companies including Avalon VII portfolio companies chumby industries and Kalon Semiconductor. Prior to starting his CFO services business, Mr. Downs was the CFO and Vice President of Operations for Extensis, Inc., a venture-backed graphics software company, which for several years was Oregon’s fastest-growing enterprise. Additionally, Mr. Downs was the CFO of NASDAQ-listed GTI Corporation, a supplier of networking components and network access equipment to original equipment manufacturers (“OEMsâ€) in the local, wide-area, and telecommunications industries. Mr. Downs began his career in financial planning and analysis for a Fortune 500 company. He has a B.S. in accounting from San Diego State University.
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About Proximal Data: Proximal Data provides server-side caching solutions to improve server initiatives in virtualized environments.
Kim McArthur
CFO of Streakwave Wireless
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About Streakwave Wireless: Streakwave Wireless offers wireless broadband networking equipment, telecommunications solutions and IP surveillance/security.
