About us

Management

  • Robert Snowberger

    Robert Snowberger

    CEO

    Rob

    A former Navy SEAL and graduate of the prestigious Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he has more than a decade of experience in Washington along with the semiconductor industry and work within the DoD.

    He earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2014.

  • Katy Henry

    Chief Financial Officer

    Katy has 20 years of executive level finance and operations experience enabling acquisitions/divestitures, initial public offering, equity and debt financing and strategic planning/modeling with high growth start-ups and large high tech companies, primarily in semiconductor markets. She holds a BS in Accounting with a concentration in Economics and a MBA with a concentration in Accounting.

  • Rahul Sen

    Dr. Rahul Sen

    CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

    Rahul, PhD, is the Chief Technology Officer, 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.

  • Rick Ridgley

    Chief Scientist

    Rick, Former Intelligence Community Chief Scientist specializing in nano materials for advanced power systems, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems, ultra-lightweight structures, and radiation hardened microelectronics.

    Pursuing analog linear radio frequency frontends and digital logic/non-volatile random-access memory for green data centers. Previously funded many uses of carbon nanotubes to satisfy DOD and Intelligence Community critical mission needs.

  • Harry Luan

    Dr. 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). He holds a PhD in EE from Purdue University.

  • Dr. Jo Luo

    Senior Director of Design & Test

    Ph.D, joined Nantero in 2015, directs NRAM array development, research, and engineering for Nantero’s NRAM® product. She is the lead inventor of developing NRAM’s multiple purpose array structures, memory fast access for sense, and splits NRAM into 3 product lines known as NRAM for DRAM, NRAM for OTP, and NRAM for NVM.

    She also directs new research of CNT FET commercialization, implementing CNT FET as BEOL devices on standard CMOS process for high bandwidth, low noise, and high linearity analog/mix-signal circuities.

    She has 20 years of experience in IC design, initialization and leading multiple product lines in