Our Leadership Team

Kevin Yoder

President & CEO

Kevin Yoder joined Niobium Microsystems, Inc. as Chief Executive Officer and serves on the Board of Directors. In his role as CEO, Kevin focuses on strategic direction, team development, and commercial activities. Most recently Yoder was the Head of Sales and Marketing at Lantronix, a company focused on hardware and software for IoT markets. Prior to Lantronix, Kevin spent six years at Avago Technologies (now Broadcom) as Vice President of Sales and Marketing serving the needs of the company’ fourteen business units. In this role, Yoder was responsible for direct, distribution, and reseller sales in the Americas and for the company’s outbound marketing strategies. Additionally Mr. Yoder played a key role in Avago’s acquisition and integration of six companies. Kevin also spent a combined nineteen years time in various sales and sales management roles at Texas Instruments and Analog Devices. In addition to these two large corporations he also held Director and Vice President roles at startups XMOS and CoWare.

Yoder earned his B.S.E.E. from the University of Notre Dame and he is an active angel investor and a member of Irish Angels and Vitalize Ventures and has served on the board of two non-profit organizations.

Georgios Dimou, Ph.D.

CTO

Dr. Dimou has over 20 years of experience in hardware design with expertise spanning from architecture to implementation both for DIB and commercial applications.

Dr. Dimou’s efforts span digital signal processing, AI, Neuromorphic computing, asynchronous circuit design, and low-power design techniques.

Georgios holds a BS in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete in Greece, and MS and PhD. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Luke Duncan, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist

Dr. Duncan has over a decade of experience in the research & development of advanced integrated circuit designs spanning analog, RF, mixed-signal, and digital systems.

Dr. Duncan’s research interests include high- performance direct-RF transceivers, hardware security, and mixed-signal circuits for 5G communications and radar systems.

Luke received B.S., M.S., and PhD. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from The Ohio State University.

Jason Graalum

VP of Engineering

Mr. Graalum has over 25 years of experience in commercial semiconductor design, implementation, verification and high volume manufacturing (including Intel, Micron, Galois, and Mentor Graphics).

Mr. Graalum has built several engineering organizations from the ground up tasked with solving complex advanced node silicon design challenges.

Jason earned his B.S.E.E. from Oregon State University followed by a M.S. in Computer Science from Portland State University.

Matt Farrell

COO

Mr. Farrell brings experience in operational excellence amid dynamic growth. He has held a variety of leadership roles including founder and early team member at early-stage and growth-stage venture-backed companies.

Mr. Farrell has a demonstrated history of creating significant value as a member of several highly recruited executive teams which span the world’s most competitive industries.

Matt earned his MBA from the University of Dayton, where he also earned his B.S. in finance and business economics.

Robert Wiltbank, Ph.D.

Board of Directors

Dr. Wiltbank has an accomplished career focusing on strategic alignment and commercialization efforts – all of which is founded on his research on strategy-making under uncertainty and entrepreneurial endeavors.  

Rob completed his PhD. in Strategic Management at the University of Washington and undergraduate work in finance and accounting at Oregon State University. He is widely referenced for his academic research on angel investing returns and entrepreneurial expertise. He is co-author of two books, Effectual Entrepreneurship and The Catalyst, as well as many academic articles.

David Archer, Ph.D.

Board of Directors

Dr. Archer is a Principal Scientist leading Cryptography & Multiparty Computation for Galois, Inc. with customers including DARPA, the NSA, IARPA and the Department of Homeland Security.

Dr. Archer has over 30 years of R&D experience in complex ASIC, system hardware, software architectures, secure computation, and cryptography.

Dave holds a PhD in Computer Science from Portland State University, an MS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.