Location Bethel, Connecticut, United States Regions East Coast, New England, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Mr. Van Buskirk has broad experience in building technology-based businesses, including engineering management, operations, business development and IP licensing. He founded Sonata LLC, a distributor of ultra-high purity materials for LED and III-V semiconductor manufacturing. Mr. Van Buskirk began his career with Perkin-Elmer, managing an optical
coating engineering group. In 1990 he joined ATMI, a start-up company in semiconductor materials. He was ATMI’s technical lead in a DARPA funded DRAM Consortium, which included IBM, Micron and Texas Instruments and formed the foundation for technology transfer to T.I. Subsequently he was Program Manager of Emosyn’s smart card alliance with Swatch. In 2000 Emosyn ramped up production of an innovative smartcard IC (SIM), using TSMC as their foundry partner; there are now over 6 billion fielded units. Mr. Van Buskirk has a B.A in History and B.S. in Physics, and holds 43 U.S. patents.
