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Angelos Angelou
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Mr. Angelos Angelou is the Founder and Principal Executive Officer of AngelouEconomics bringing over 20 years of experience in economic development and site selection. Having spent 11 years with the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, Angelos brings a practitioner's approach to AE's economic development team. During his time at the Chamber, Angelos was responsible for the recruitment of 400 technology companies and some 70,000 employees, including, Tokyo Electron, Motorola, AMD, Cypress Semiconductor, Applied Materials, Samsung, and Sematech. As a result, he has worked with major corporate clients domestically and internationally, and has carried much of that client base with him into private practice. A highly visible leader in the field of economic development across the U.S., Angelos is widely regarded as the chief architect in the establishment of Austin as a high tech center. Because his expertise is in the technology economy and global economic development issues, the national media regularly seeks his comments and insights.
Angelos holds an M. A. Economics cum laude from St. Mary's University in San Antonio; B.A. in Economics, University of Texas at San Antonio. Angelos is on the Board of several organizations, including International Economic Development Council (IEDC), World Congress on Information Technology (Austin 2006), Treaty Oak Bank, and St. Edward’s University.
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Lee Cooke
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| Lee Cooke has 37 years of executive and leadership experience in the public and private sectors. He has spent 18 years as Founder/CEO of Habitek International, Inc., a private holding company providing counsel to emerging companies. As CEO of U.S. Medical Systems, Inc., a bio-medical subsidiary of Habitek, Cooke assisted the company in raising $6.5 million in private equity funding and going public on the NASD Bulletin Board. It was sold to Sharps Compliance, Inc in 1998. Habitek purchased U.S. Medical Systems, Inc. from Sharps, and became a provider of patented, FDA authorized Class 1 medical device polymer products to Dentsply International. In 1999, Cooke served as President/CEO of good2CU.com, a business-to-business Internet destination site for credit unions. In 2002, Cooke served as Chairman/President/CEO of Tanisys Technology, Inc., publicly traded automatic test equipment company (ATE). Cooke played a pivot role in restructuring the company, promoting the entry into the flash market and assisting management in a LBO from major stockholders. Tanisys was sold in 2003 to Spirox/ATE Worldwide LLP-Taiwan. Prior to his recent activities in the private sector, Cooke spearheaded Austin’s efforts to become one of the nation’s premier high tech and music centers. Cooke served as President/CEO of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce from 1983-1987, and Mayor, Mayor-protem and Council Member of the City of Austin from 1977-1991. During his tenure as Mayor, Cooke oversaw the investment of $3.5+ billion in new private capital into Austin. Achievements included construction of a new convention center,company expansion by Motorola (FreeScale), IBM, AMD, 3M and Applied Materials, Inc., the approval of 44 miles of freeway, relocation of the new airport to Bergstrom Air Force Base and creation of the Austin Technology Incubator. Before entering public service, Cooke served in manufacturing, human resources and engineering management positions, during his career at Texas Instruments (1972-83). From 1991 to 2008, he served on seven publically traded corporate boards. Cooke completed graduate work toward an MBA at the University of Texas in 1970-1 and received his BA from Louisiana Tech University in 1966. He served five years in the United States Air Force as an intelligence officer during a tour of duty in Viet Nam receiving the Bronze Star. |
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Doina Mazilu
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Ms. Mazilu is the Founder, President and Chair of Saguaro Technology, Inc., a Malibu, California-headquartered, U.S. software development company, with wholly-owned operating subsidiaries located in Timisoara, Romania. Established in 1999 and now over 200 developers strong, Saguaro Technology has been providing long-term, premier quality, project-based software development services to IBM, Asyst Technologies and more recently to its newest partner, InfoPrint Solutions Company. Originally an Engineer by education and profession, Ms. Mazilu was Vice President of Engineering for a domestic operating unit of Hitachi, with worldwide operations. In that role, she led 150 engineers and support staff in Product Development, Support and Quality Assurance. After leaving Hitachi, Ms. Mazilu started a successful software development consulting company, the predecessor to Saguaro Tech. Apart from her skills as an established entrepreneur, Ms. Mazilu is also an inventor, with patents covering certain computer printer print density and microprocessor control technologies.
Ms. Mazilu is firmly committed to giving back to the communities in which she lives and does business, both in the U.S. and in Romania, establishing, through her companies, trusts and foundations, university grant and scholarship programs for worthy students and contributing regularly to community aid, charitable and local disaster relief organizations. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. |
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Jack L. Saltich
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Jack Saltich is an executive with over 35 years of experience in various high technology areas. . Since January 2006 Mr. Saltich is Chairmafn and CEO of Vitex Systems, a private company that is a technology licensing, materials supplier and engineering services company focusing in the emerging area of flexible displays and flexible electronic products. From July 1999 till August 2005 he served as President, CEO and a Director of Three-Five Systems, Inc., a technology and manufacturing services company that specialized in the design, development, and manufacturing of custom displays, display systems, and was a full service global provider of electronic manufacturing services. The company had manufacturing operations in China, Manila and Malaysia. During his tenure at the company a $50Million spin-off of Brillian Corp. was executed.. .
Mr. Saltich currently serves as a Director on four public company boards: Immersion Corp., (IMMR) a company that develops, licenses, and markets haptic technology and products; (Haptics is the “technology of touch” that is incorporated in the Microsoft X-Box and Sony Playstation products) Ramtron Corporation (RMTR) a company with a focus on commercialization of ferro-electric memory products, Leadis Technology (LDIS) which designs, develops and markets mixed-signal semiconductors for small panel displays used in mobile handsets and consumer electronic devices, and Atmel Corporation ( ATML) which designs and manufactures a variety of integrated circuit products. Mr. Saltich is a member of the Manufacturing Advisory Board for Cypress Semiconductor.
Over the past 35 years, Mr. Saltich has worked with five different companies in the electronics industry, ranging from the very small to the very large. In each of these career assignments, his primary focus has always been centered on the development of new technologies, and the manufacturing and business processes that help bring these technologies quickly and efficiently to the marketplace. Mr. Saltich has extensive experience in Asia working with many Korean, Japanese and Chinese companies as partners, customers and suppliers.
Mr. Saltich received both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois. He completed all course work toward a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. In 2002 Mr. Saltich received the distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois.
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