With over 25 years of experience, Dr. Michael A. Briere is the former Executive VP R+D, and CTO for International Rectifier. Dr. Briere was also founder, President, and CEO of Picor Corporation. He has held positions at IBM, the HMI of Berlin, LLNL, Cherry Semi, and as Chief Scientist for ON Semi. Dr. Briere received his doctorate in solid state physics from the TU Berlin and MS and BSEE from WPI