Davin Lee holds a BSEE degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Toshihiko Seki

Mr. Seki serves as the Vice President of MCU Device Solution Business Division at Renesas Electronics Corporation since January 2022. In this role, he is mainly responsible for leading the company’s proprietary RL78 microcontroller (MCU) business and has been instrumental in achieving global leading market share position for the 16-bit MCU architecture category.

Mr. Seki has more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductors industry. He started his career in ASIC/memory product marketing at Hitachi, Ltd., and held various marketing management positions at Renesas, including Director of Marketing & Business operations at Renesas Electronics America.

Mr. Seki holds a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Sophia University, Japan.

Bobby Matinpour

Mr. Matinpour serves as the Vice President of Global Strategic Vertical & Regional Sales at Renesas Electronics Corporation since April 2022. Previously at Renesas, he was the Vice President of Timing and Standard Product Business Division since March 2019.

Prior to joining Renesas, he served as the Vice President of the High Speed Data & Clock Business Unit at Texas Instruments. A 20-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, Mr. Matinpour has a diverse and wholistic industry experience covering engineering, product marketing, operations, and sales management for a wide-range of products and solutions addressing industrial, infrastructure, consumer, and automotive markets.

Prior to joining Texas Instruments, Mr. Matinpour held various engineering and marketing management positions at National Semiconductor, Epson-Toyocom, and several semiconductor startups.

Mr. Matinpour holds a BSEE from Virginia Tech and MS and PhD EE from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Buvna Ayyagari

Ms. Ayyagari joined Renesas in August 2023 as Vice President of Software and Digitalization. In this newly created role, Ms. Ayyagari is responsible for spearheading the definition, development, and implementation of a market leading platform with industry standard customer tools.

Ms. Ayyagari brings rich and multi-disciplinary expertise across the semiconductor industry from Applied Materials (AMAT), Synopsys (IP and EDA) and Intel where she held executive and leadership positions in R&D, Product Engineering, Field Applications Engineering, Marketing, Pre- and Post-sales Customer Support and drove products from definition to high volume.

Ms. Ayyagari holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of South Carolina. She is the author of several publications and patents and serves on the Board of non-profit organizations.

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