Angelos Angelou

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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Jack L. Saltich

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.

C. Richard Deininger

Mr. Deininger also served on the board of directors for Semitool Corporation, a public (NASDAQ) semiconductor equipment manufacturing company and also was a member of the compensation committee from 2004 to 2008 when the company was sold the following year to Applied Materials. While on the BOD of both Triant and Semitool, separate board meetings were held to review the company's long range, and strategic plans, up to 5 years. 

Mr. Deininger's earlier board experiences includes: Sematech Technical Advisory BOD representing AMD. Mr. Deininger was Chairman for three years from 1988 to 1991, and he helped set the agenda for 14 semiconductor manufacturing companies in the late 80’s and early 90’s and insure that an American supplier infrastructure (30 equipment and software companies) was in place to support the industry.

Over his career, Mr. Deininger had the good fortune to have developed and applied software and hardware to business and manufacturing problems. While at IBM,. He successfully managed annual budgets of up to $500m in the manufacturing organization. He was trained through IBM’s executive training programs. He has a good understanding of the IT and manufacturing industries and what it takes to be successful.

During his tenure as Director of Engineering & Programming Planning for IBM Corporate, He was responsible for helping develop long range strategy and then review annual division operating plans with the appropriate executives to insure that those plans mapped into the overall corporate strategy.  For those plan where there was a shortfall, the gaps were filled to maximize the probability of achieving the long range objectives.

During his tenure with AMD as Director of Manufacturing Technologies, he was responsible for the development and implementation of the long range manufacturing strategy and plans. Those implementations resulted in making AMD’s precision manufacturing platform one of the best in the world today.

Mr. Deininger graduated with Honors with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology). He was a Distinguished Military Graduate in USAF ROTC and served two and one half years in the USAF during the Korean War. He is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He has authored numerous articles in national periodicals.