Dr. Fred P. Gnadinger, President/CEO of Microtronix Corporation has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He founded Microtronix, a semiconductor technology company, in 1990. Microtronix is engaged in the development of a ferroelectric technology for use in non- volatile semiconductor memories and a novel MEMs technology, WaferStak™, that allows stacking of semiconductor chips, wafers or portions of wafers to form three dimensional semiconductor devices. In 1994 Microtronix also started a successful design operation and completed several state of the art designs including a 64k and a 256k ferroelectric memory.

   Prior to forming Microtronix, Dr. Gnadinger served as Chief Technical Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Ramtron International Corporation, a semiconductor company engaged in the development and application of the ferroelectric technology for non-volatile memory products. Between 1987 and 1990 he led the company during a strong growth phase and increased employment from less than 20 to over 100 employees.

   Prior to his engagement at Ramtron, Dr. Gnadinger worked for INMOS Corporation, a British Semiconductor Company, as Vice- President for product development. Under his leadership INMOS developed a broad range of semiconductor memory devices (SRAM, DRAM and EEPROM) that generated at the peak of the company in 1984 a total of $150M in revenues. His responsibilities included technology development, design and quality assurance.

   Dr. Gnadinger holds 5 US patents and several foreign patents He authored numerous publications including a book chapter published by Academic press, New York. He has also given many talks at Scientific Conferences and has been an invited speaker on several other occasions.

   Dr. Gnadinger received an MSEE degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland and an MSEE and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas.