Management
Rob Snowberger
Interim CEO
Rob has served as CEO of Honeycomb Secure Systems, Inc. since January of 2021. A former Navy SEAL and graduate of the prestigious Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he brings more than a decade of experience in Washington and the business world to Nantero. He earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2014.
Dr. Thomas Rueckes
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Thomas Rueckes, Ph.D. is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nantero where he directs engineering, development and research activities in CNT chemistry, process integration, circuit design, device, product and test engineering. He is the inventor of the NRAM® carbon nanotube memory concept and co-founded Nantero to commercialize this invention in 2001. He is inventor on 163 granted patents with more than 160 patents pending. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 2001.
Lee Cleveland
VP of Design
Previously, Lee was Senior VP of Engineering at Sipex and Exar (mixed-signal semis), and then VP of Engineering/COO at Kilopass (embedded nonvolatile memory). Before that, he was in charge of flash design at Spansion and AMD and led the design of MirrorBit flash as well as many other flash products. Lee holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Robert O. Lindefjeld
General Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
Robert Lindefjeld was previously a Partner at Jones Day, one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the world where he was in charge of the Pittsburgh Office Intellectual Property Group. He has been lead counsel and second-chair in numerous intellectual property infringement matters in state and federal courts, district court, arbitration, and the International Trade Commission in a wide variety of technologies including computer chips. He holds a Juris Doctor JD from Widener University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. He holds a BS in Biology from Norwich University, Military College of Vermont, and thereafter served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry.
Harry Luan
VP of Integration and Device Engineering
Harry has extensive experience as an executive in semiconductor manufacturing. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of TC Lab, a memory startup, and CTO of Kilopass Technology, an embedded memory company with over 170 customers in production which was acquired by Synopsys. At Kilopass he invented and enabled new technologies for antifuse memories down to 10nm. He also served as an engineering executive at Winbond Electronics America, focused on future generation nonvolatile memory technologies, as Senior Principal Technology Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor, and as Senior Principal Engineer, Flash Division at Hyundai Electronics (now Hynix). Before that he worked in memory engineering at AMD. He holds a PhD in EE from Purdue University.
Rahul Sen
VP of Materials
Rahul Sen, Ph.D, is the Vice President of Materials, where he directs materials development, research and engineering for Nantero’s NRAM® product. He is the lead inventor of Nantero’s micro-electronics grade carbon nanotube formulation, which paved the way for the introduction of these nanomaterials into semiconductor foundries. Having joined Nantero in 2003, he is one of the longest serving members of the Nantero team. His contributions range from key technical breakthroughs developing Nantero’s materials technology platform to leadership roles involved in growing and building the materials team. He has more than 20 years of experience in carbon nanomaterials research and development and 10+ years of technology management experience. He has a Ph. D. degree in Materials Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and MBA degree from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.