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SPRING 2004 SEMINAR SERIES

Janusz Bryzek, Ph.D.
Managing Partner
BN Ventures

Dr. Bryzek has been in the MEMS industry since its early days. He got involved in the development of MEMS pressure sensors in Poland in early 1970, working on technology transfer from Honeywell. In 1979 he joined Foxboro ICT, the first Silicon Valley MEMS sensor spinout from Fairchild Semiconductor. Between 1982 and 2003 Bryzek cofounded six Silicon Valley MEMS companies, all introducing products based on the cutting edge technology: Sensym, ICSensors, NovaSensor, Intelligent MicroSensor Technology, Transparent Networks and BN Ventures. One of his successful developments was the world’s first disposable blood pressure sensor in 1981, currently shipping 20 million units/year. He also worked on the development of the worldwide MEMS market awareness program launched from NovaSensor in partnership with RGA in 1986; this resulted in MEMS coverage by a majority of trade publications, and mainstream media.
He formed BN Ventures in mid 2003 focused on three strategic areas: Funding of selected emerging technologies, Searching for promising startup companies, and performing due diligence for selected Silicon Valley VC firms
Dr. Bryzek has published over 200 papers, contributed to book chapters, chaired many international conferences and co-authored 30 patents. He was also actively involved in the MEMS standardization effort, including Disposable Blood Pressure Transducers released by AAMI in 1984 and Smart transducer Interface IEEE-1451 released as several corollary standards in the 1990s. In 1994 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by Sensors Magazine for the achievements in MEMS field. Dr. Bryzek serves on the Advisory Boards of investment bank Via Inc and ChipScale Review Magazine. He is also a member of National Research Council Committee for the Review of Physical Science Proposals to the State of Ohio’s Wright Center of Innovation Award Program.
Dr. Bryzek has an MSEE and Ph.D. from Warsaw Technical University. He completed the executive management program at Stanford University in 1987.

Selected recent presentations and publications

Handbook of Measuring Systems Design, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, October 2004. Three sections:

  • Principles of MEMS

  • Uses and benefits of MEMS

  • Principles of MEMS actuators
Emerging Wireless Sensor Networks: Large Volume Driver for Ultra Low Power Integrated MEMS Sensors and Vibration Power Scavengers. Sensors Expo Detroit, June 9, 2004.

Evolution of MEMS-IC Integration Technology. Special Issue of IEEE Measurement and Control Magazine, May 2004.

Evolution of MEMS Technology and Markets for MEMS Based Products. Invited Talk. Meptec, Santa Clara, CA, May 11, 2004

Evolution of MEMS Technology and Markets for MEMS. Invited Plenary Talk. Microsystems, XIX Simposium Internacional de Electronica y Communicaciones. Monterrey, Mexico, April 31, 2004

MEMS Product and Market Evolution. Invited talk, Agilent, Palo Alto, CA February 11, 2004

Evolution of MEMS-IC Integration. Invited talk, Agilent, Palo Alto, CA February 11, 2004

Overview of VC Funding Activity. Invited talk, Agilent, Palo Alto, CA February 11, 2004

Control Issues for MEMS. Invited plenary talk. IEEE Control Conference, Maui, Hawaii, December 9, 2003.

The Entrepreneurial Point of View on MEMS Market. Invited panel presentation. In-Stat/MDR MEMS Executive Forum, San Jose, CA, October 13, 2003.

MEMS Devices; The Universe is Expanding. Invited plenary talk. ISA Expo, Houston, TX, September 21, 2003.

MEMS, Evolution and Opportunities. Invited plenary talk. First IbanoAmericana MEMS Workshop, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, September 19, 2003.

Introduction to MEMS Technologies and Markets. Six hour tutorial at First IbanoAmericana MEMS Workshop, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, September 18, 2003.

MEMS-IC Integration. Invited paper. Sensors Expo, Anaheim, CA, September 24, 2003.

Bringing MEMS To Market. Lessons from Riding the Optical Bubble to Optical Winter to ???. Invited plenary talk. TexMEMS, University of Texas at Arlington, Ft. Worth, TX, May 6, 2003.

Impact of Recent Multibillion VC Technology Funding on MEMS Industry. Sensors Expo Chicago, IL, June 3, 2003

Success Factors for MEMS Startups From the Perspective of the Nuclear VC Winter. Invited plenary talk. MEPTEC Conference, Sunnyvale, CA, May 15, 2003.

Very Large Scale Integration of MOEMS Mirrors, MEMS Angular Amplifiers and High-voltage High-density IC for Photonic Switching. NanoTech 2003, San Francisco, February 24, 2003.

Success Factors for Startup Companies From the Perspective of the Nuclear VC Winter. Invited talk. PAEC, Menlo Park, CA, February 20, 2003

Light at the end of the Fiber. The Present and Future of MOEMS in Telecommunication Applications. Invited talk. SPIE Conference, San Jose, CA, January 27, 2003

MOEMS Startup Success Factors - Two Years Later. COMS 2002, Ypsilante, MI, September 11, 2002.

 

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