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Meet Your Directors

Four members of the PSMA Board of Directors are elected at the 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 you to meet Carl Blake, who was elected to his first term at APEC 2009.


 
Carl Blake is currently the Vice President of Marketing at Transphorm, President of the PSMA and senior member of the IEEE.  After completing a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering summa cum laude at the University of New Haven (Connecticut, USA), he began his career with Raytheon as a Power Systems Design Engineer gaining experience in power supply, RF and logic design.  Over the next 20 years he progressed through many levels of engineering, program management, manufacturing management, and business management in the power and RF systems segments.

In 1991, he moved from aerospace to the semiconductor industry bringing customer knowledge system understanding to the new power semiconductor product definition process. 

During the following years, Mr. Blake held numerous positions at the Director and Vice President level in strategic marketing, business management, and technical marketing.  Carl has given over fifty technical presentations, seminars and published articles at various conferences throughout the world over his thirty plus year career in the field of power electronics; including being invited twice as Plenary Speaker at APEC 2004 and 2009.

He continues to be an active participant in the Power Sources Manufacturers Association since the mid 1990’s holding positions of President, member of the Board of Directors as well as previous Co-Chair of the Technology Roadmap committee which publishes a five year roadmap for the power supply industry every two years, most recently in 2011.

Provided by Carl Blake, Vice President Marketing, Transphorm Inc

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