Four members of the Board of Directors are elected at the PSMA Annual Meeting held every year during the APEC conference. Each Director serves a three year term and is eligible to be reelected for one additional term.

In this issue we would like to introduce you to Mike Hayes and Kevin Parmenter who were both elected to their first term in 2015.

Mike Hayes has almost 30 years' experience working in Power Electronics industry & research and is an active member of PSMA. He joined the PSMA Board of Directors in 2015 becoming Vice President in 2016. He currently works at Tyndall, one of Europe's leading research centers and a world leader in PSiP (Power Supply in Package) & PowerSoC (Power Supply on Chip) domains, as an industry orientated program manager covering collaborative projects on power electronics & energy efficiency. He is also Tyndall's representative on the Cork Smart Gateway steering committee. At Tyndall he has secured around $6M in funding (from industry, government & the EU) leading to the creation of over 30 jobs & helping industry partners secure $3M in VC/research funding.

Mike's research activities are in the areas of energy harvesting, WSN (wireless sensor network) for micro-grid & factory efficiency and 3D power electronics packaging. He has an established track record promoting synergies between power electronics, energy harvesting and ICT domains and has written a number of publications, participated in EU studies, presenting & chairing conferences and workshops related to this. Technically he co-ordinates Tyndall energy harvesting and conditional monitoring research activities that has delivered the world's 1st indoor energy harvesting power management solution operating indefinitely in indoor lighting conditions and for 72 hours in darkness. His specialist area is power management solutions (hardware and models) for micro-power energy harvesting & is currently leading a program (MISCHIEF) developing a high efficiency multi-source micro-power energy harvesting PMIC (power management IC) in collaboration with MCCI (Microelectronic Circuits Centre Ireland).

Mike gained 20 years power electronics industry experience at Artesyn Technologies in various process development, power supply design & senior management roles developing custom power supplies for blue chip telecoms companies. A key part of his Engineering Manager role entailed building technical relations with key clients, gaining a technical holistic understanding of the overall system needs and helping clients realize optimized power solutions. During this time there in 1992 he published his M.Eng.Sc. thesis on 'Planar Magnetics for Switched Mode Power Supply (SMPS) Applications'.

Since 2013 Mike is an active member of the PSMA Packaging Committee providing leadership (phase 1)/guidance (phase 2) on the PSMA 3D reports and technology roadmaps. He has also been involved annually in reviewing presentations for APEC industry sessions and is PSMA's representative on the IWIPP steering committee for 2017. Mike chaired the Packaging and Manufacturing session of international workshop PwrSoC2014 and presented the PSMA 3D technology roadmap at an ECPE (European Centre for Power Electronics) workshop in 2015.

Mike resurrected the PSMA Energy Harvesting committee in Oct 2015 taking a system application oriented approach and putting an initial focus on data gathering ultra-low power (ULP) devices such as wireless sensors. The committee has held 2 webinars in 2016 (one with IEEE PELS) and will have an Energy Harvesting Industry Session at APEC 2017.

He has a passion & belief that commercialization of existing and emerging technologies can be accelerated through system integration getting stakeholders from various disciplines to collaborate. To do this requires articulation of the benefits to all power electronics stakeholders as well as providing an ecosystem to foster such collaboration. PSMA has a major role to play here & Mike leverages from his experience and network to help identify, promote & drive industry/academic synergies at an international level particularly between packaging & manufacturing & between ICT, energy harvesting & power management.

Provided by Senior Program manager, ICT for Energy Efficiency, Tyndall National institute

Kevin Parmenter, Vice President of Applications North America at Excelsys Technologies, has a career spanning over 30 years in the electronics and semiconductor industry. A long-time member and now Senior Member of IEEE, Kevin frequently speaks at technology tradeshows and has authored many technical articles and guest columns for industry publications. Currently, he is Chair of the PSMA's Safety and Compliance Committee and is a past president of the organization. He also was General Chair of APEC 2009.
Kevin has held positions at Freescale Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, ON Semiconductor and Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector. He was previously Director of Advanced Technical Marketing (digital power products) for Exar.

Kevin has a B.S.E.E. from Purdue University and B.S. in Business Administration from Colorado Technical University. He holds both Amateur Extra class F.C.C. license and an F.C.C. Commercial Radiotelephone License.
 

Provided by Kevin Parmenter, Vice President of Applications North America, Excelsys Technologies

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