Andrew N. Karanicolas, Ph.D., Vice President, Engineering, is responsible for all of the Company's product research and development programs. Dr. Karanicolas has more than 20 years of expertise designing high-performance integrated circuits and systems for communications, medical, industrial and consumer markets. Prior to joining ZeroG, he was the Design Director at True Circuits where he was responsible for the design and development of PLL and DLL IP for precision clock generation and memory interface applications in CMOS technologies. Previously, he held key management and technical positions at Maxim Integrated Products, Level One Communications, which was acquired by Intel in 1999, and AT&T Bell Laboratories where he designed products for cellular, cordless, ethernet, medical ultrasound and industrial acquisition applications in bipolar, BiCMOS and CMOS technologies. He has also served as an independent consultant to the semiconductor industry. Dr. Karanicolas received his Ph.D., S.M. and S.B. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has ten publications and eight patents issued. Since 2004, Dr. Karanicolas has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits.