Crocus Technology Management
The Crocus management team brings together more than 100 years of combined successful magnetic and semiconductor industry experience.
Jean-Pierre Braun, CEO
Jean-Pierre brings in 30+ years experience in the Semiconductor and EDA industries, including 28 in Silicon Valley in chip design, design management, business development and corporate management. He started his professional career at ST Microelectronics and went on to work for National Semiconductor, AMD, Chips and Technologies and others. Jean-Pierre managed two EDA start-up companies and a fabless specialty DRAM startup. Jean-Pierre graduated from Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (France).
Jean-Pierre Nozieres, Founder and CTO
Jean-Pierre has worked in both France and Silicon Valley, alternating positions in research and industry. He was a research scientist in magnetics at IBM-San Jose, research staff at France’s National Research center (CNRS), development manager at Applied Magnetics in Santa Barbara and Techincal director at PHS-MEMS, a french start-up company. He then launched and directed the Spintec laboratory which Crocus was spun-off from. He is the inventor of many international patents and has authored more than 100 scientific publications. Jean-Pierre holds an engineering degree from the Institut National Polytechnique (Grenoble) and a PhD in Physics from Grenoble University (France).
Neal Berger, Director, Product Development
Neal has more than 25 years experience in the semiconductor industry, in design engineering and management roles. Prior to joining Crocus, Neal was Director of Design Engineering at Silicon Storage Technology, where he led teams in the design and development of leading-edge FLASH memory products. He has also held key engineering and management positions at Intel and Atmel Corp, responsible for a variety of non-volatile memory based products, including EPROM, EEPROM, FLASH, and Programmable Logic. Neal holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T, and Columbia University.
Jason Reid, VP of Process Development
Concentrating on advanced integrated circuit fabrication, novel materials development, and oversea foundry technology transfers, Jason has held senior management positions at Intel and startups. He has authored or coauthored over 40 publications and holds over 15 patents in the areas of semiconductor metallization, MEMS, optical devices, low-k materials, and phase change memory. He has provided expert witness testimony in the field of semiconductor fabrication and performed extensive consulting in a wide range of areas including metallization techniques, low-noise device development, solar cell fabrication, MEMS, and fuel cells. Jason received his PhD in Applied Physics from Caltech.
Jean-Pascal Bost, CFO
Jean-Pascal spent most of his career with both industrial and international companies. After participating in the launch of a software company, Jean-Pascal worked for Bossard Consultants (now Gemini Consulting). Then he held several finance positions within Schneider Electric (electric equipment), Juva Santé (healthcare products, organic food), Carbone Lorraine (magnets for automotive and computer disk drives) and Dauphiné Libéré (local newspaper). Jean-Pascal also teaches Management Control and Innovation Management in various business schools and at Grenoble University. Jean-Pascal graduated from ESSEC.
