Defne Saral
Currently Defne is the business leader for the commercial and technology offering of DuPont Industrial Biosciences (IB) to the personal care and cosmetics industry. She is part of the commercial industry leadership team, has responsibility for profit & loss and leads the global personal care team. She has 22 years of experience in global companies across a variety of industries.
Defne joined DuPont in 2005 after her MBA and has held commercial roles in marketing, sales, product management and business development. She has worked in specialty materials and ingredients for the fire fighting industry, textiles, paints & coatings, automotive, construction and retail. Prior to personal care, she was leading the food enzymes unit of IB developing offerings to improve freshness, optimize production, add texture, ensure quality consistency and reduce waste, water and energy consumption.
Prior to DuPont, she worked for 7 years at Philip Morris International, starting in Operations for Eastern Europe integrating acquisitions, moving to M&A, was Marlboro brand manager for Switzerland and head of strategic planning for the worldwide duty free unit.
Defne holds an MBA from IMD, Switzerland and a Bachelor in Systems Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She was born in the US, is of Turkish origin, and is a Swiss citizen.
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Yankin Tanurhan
Dr. Yankin Tanurhan is Vice President of Engineering for DesignWare Processor Cores, IP Subsystems and Non-Volatile Memory, Security and SoC Design at Synopsys. He leads the low power and high performance ARC and EV embedded Processor developments targeted from Mobile, IoT, Embedded Vision, Digital Home, Automotive/Industrial, Security to Storage markets, ASIP tool development with products like ASIP Designer and Programmer, IP Subsystems products like Sensor Fusion, Audio, Vision and Security Subsystems and CMOS based Non Volatile IP development. Before joining Synopsys, Dr. Tanurhan was Vice President and General Manager of Virage Logic's Processors, SoC Infrastructure and NVM Solutions business units. Virage Logic was acquired by Synopsys in September 2010. Prior to this, Dr. Tanurhan served as Vice President of Actel's Advanced Applications and System Solutions, where he lead Actel's new architecture design, IP and MPU business units, system and hardware tools and product validation departments. He was also responsible for leading Actel's embedded FPGA, embedded processor and DSP activities.
Previously in his research career he served as the director of the department of electronic systems and microsystems of FZI (Forschungszentrum Informatik) a German contract research institute attached to the University of Karlsruhe. Dr. Tanurhan has authored more than 100 papers in refereed publications. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rheinisch Westfaellische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany and a Dr. Ing. degree summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Ziad Asghar
Ziad Asghar is Vice President, Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc (QTI). He leads Snapdragon roadmap planning and Application processor technologies, covering all QC product lines. Ziad drives the definition of the products ensuring that our products lead in technology and enable best in class user experiences while making tradeoffs between features, power, performance and cost. He also leads Application Processor technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Camera, Graphics, CPU, Audio, Video and Security. He also has responsibility for Competitive Analysis. Ziad works across all teams including engineering and product management to ensure that we have the leading roadmap in the industry and continue to set the standard on all application processor technologies. He works across all business units including Mobile, Automotive, Compute, XR, Edge Cloud and IoT.
He has more than 20 years of experience in the wireless semiconductor industry where he has held a broad set of leadership positions from R&D to product management. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Ziad was at Texas Instruments where he worked on systems design of UMTS & LTE and OMAP Product Management.
Ziad holds an MBA from UCSD and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and Southern Methodist University.
Marc Tremblay
Marc Tremblay, Ph.D.: Marc is a Distinguished Engineer and VP in the Office of the CTO (OCTO) at Microsoft. His current role is to drive the strategic and technical direction of the company on silicon and hardware systems from a cross-divisional standpoint. This includes Artificial Intelligence, from supercomputer to client devices to Xbox, etc., and general-purpose computing. Throughout his career, Marc has demonstrated a passion for translating high-level application requirements into optimizations up and down the stack, all the way to silicon. AI has been his focus for the past several years, but his interests also encompass accelerators for the cloud, scale-out systems, and process technology. He has given multiple keynotes on AI Hardware, published many papers on throughput computing, multi-cores, multithreading, transactional memory, speculative multi-threading, Java computing, etc. and he is an inventor of over 300 patents on those topics.
Prior to Microsoft, Marc was the CTO of Microelectronics at Sun Microsystems. As a Sun Fellow and SVP, he was responsible for the technical leadership of 1200 engineers. Throughout his career, he has started, architected, led, defined and shipped a variety of microprocessors such as superscalar RISC processors (UltraSPARC I/II), bytecode engines (picoJava), VLIW, media and Java-focused (MAJC), and the first processor to implement speculative multithreading and transactional memory (ROCK – first silicon). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from UCLA and his Physics Engineering degree from Laval University in Canada. Marc is on the board of directors of QuantalRF.
Bobby Modi
Bobby currently sits as Vice President of Pet Growth & Strategy at J.M Smucker with over 18 years of service working in the consumer goods industry.
Education
- Northwestern University – MBA, Marketing, Finance, Strategy with Distinction
- University of Cincinnati – Bachelor’s, Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude
YEARS OF SERVICE
18 years
CURRENT ROLE
Vice President, Pet Growth & Strategy
May 29, 2018
SMUCKER ROLE HISTORY
Vice President, General Manager, Away From Home
Vice President, General Manager - Smucker Natural Foods
Vice President, Marketing – Canada
Director, Marketing – Coffee
Manager, Marketing – Coffee
Manager, Marketing
Brand Manager – Coffee
2018
2014-2018
2012-2014
2011-2012
2009-2011
2008-2009
2002-2008
EXPERIENCE
PRIOR TO SMUCKER
Procter & Gamble – Brand Manager (Folgers)
Senior Engineer R&D – North American/Latin American Laundry
EDUCATION
Northwestern University – MBA, Marketing, Finance, Strategy with Distinction
University of Cincinnati – Bachelor’s, Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude
