Gene is co-founder and Chairman of nsc, and oversees technology development and roadmaps. He has been CEO of SMART, MIT’s Research Enterprise in Singapore and a Chair Professor in Materials Engineering at MIT. His research work resulted in the discovery of high mobility strained silicon, the basis of the founding of his first company. He is a practicing researcher, serial innovator and entrepreneur and has founded or co-founded seven enterprises. He is co-author of the book “Inside Real Innovation." Gene received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1985 and his PhD from Cornell University in 1989.

Fayyaz is co-founder and CEO of nsc, responsible for leading the team and setting overall growth strategies. He has over 23 years of semiconductor industry experience, and has held leadership positions in Business Development, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Engineering at SMART, Globalfoundries and LSI. He was also an early member of a Boston-based start-up Amberwave Systems, heading up their Asia operations. He has a M.S (EE) from Lehigh University, USA, and BEng (EEE) from NTU, Singapore.

Keith is co-founder of nsc and has over 25 years of semiconductor experience. He is responsible for operations and supply chain. Currently, he is the Senior Programme Manager of the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) Interdisciplinary Research Group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) leading all operational aspects of the research program. Prior to joining LEES, Keith served as Program Manager in Globalfoundries for advance technology nodes, driving multi-functional group to deliver full technology solution package for Alpha customers. Earlier in his technical career, he had exposure in device characterization and modelling, and tapeout operation. Keith holds a M.S. (EE) from National University of Singapore and B.S. (EE) from the University of Oklahoma.

Ken is co-founder of nsc, and concurrently the Senior Scientific Director of the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) Interdisciplinary Research Group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). He is responsible for developing the core technologies underpinning the novel monolithically integrated CMOS + III-V platforms used by NSC to create the integrated electronic and photonic systems of the future. He previously spent various stints within the Ministry of Defence, DSO National Laboratories, and the Temasek Laboratories at Nanyang Technological University, where he performed various roles such as technology funding and programme management, in addition to leading research teams. This forms part of his 20 years of experience in the fields of semiconductors, optoelectronics and photonics. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Electrical Engineering. He holds over 20 U.S and international patents.