Advisory Board

Robert J. Brown

Robert J. Brown retired as President/COO of Toshiba America Electronic Components in June 2000. He has 40 years of experience in the electronic components business, including semiconductors, display tubes, disk drives, CD-ROMs, DVD drives, LCDs, and rechargeable batteries.

Since retiring from Toshiba, Mr. Brown is consulting for several startup companies and is currently acting as COO for API, Inc., in San Juan Capistrano, a company focusing on "location technology."

Siobhan Dolan Clancy

Siobhan Dolan Clancy, FOUNDER AND CEO | SDC BUSINESS CONSULTING LTD. is a senior business executive with 25 years’ leadership experience in the global semiconductor technology industry. She holds a degree in Management Sciences (Trinity College Dublin), diploma in Marketing (Technological University of Dublin), postgraduate diploma in International Trade for Southeast Asia (ISUGA, France), advanced diploma in Personal, Leadership and Executive Coaching (2020) and diploma in Corporate Governance (2021). Siobhan was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Discrete & Integrated Solutions Group at Microsemi Corporation (2016 – 2018), member of the executive management and led the merger and acquisition of two organizations into the group and implemented a transformative site integration strategy driving product focus, technology optimization and cost/utilization improvements.

Prior to that, she was Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Strategic Marketing & Business Development for Aerospace at Microsemi Corporation (2011 – 2016). She established long term global partnerships with senior stakeholders in the aerospace industry to drive product roadmaps for next generation platforms while helping brand the company as a solutions provider. She initiated and developed one of the top ten corporate wide strategic growth initiatives in electric aircraft power systems and represented the strategy to Board of Directors and Market Analysts. Prior to that she was Director of International High Reliability Sales at Microsemi Corporation (2008 – 2011) and European Sales Manager, High Reliability Products at Microsemi Corporation (2004 – 2008). Throughout her career Siobhan has worked in the semiconductor industry addressing many end markets gaining deep industry knowledge across the major sectors of aerospace, commercial aviation, space satellite, automotive, medical, and industrial applications including semiconductor capital equipment. SDC Business Consulting – Strategic and Operational Support to Business.

Susan Howington

Susan Howington is an expert in the executive outplacement industry, and the Founder and CEO of Power Connections, Inc., an innovative professional networking agency that provides effective person to person connections. Susan created her company based upon her research that both employers and executives in need of career management and outplacement assistance could benefit from the concept of a “career concierge” service. Among Power Connections’ strategic tactics are strong ties to the Southern California human resources community and top players in executive recruiting.

Susan made her mark in the industry throughout her executive tenure with the firm of Lee Hecht Harrison, where as the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the Southern California region, she spearheaded the delivery of $6.8 million of client services. In addition, Susan became the company’s top achiever in sales of executive coaching and leadership development services, as well as a recipient of a Global Leadership Consulting Award.

Susan is an alumnus of the international Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland and was profiled by OC Metro Magazine as one of 15 Orange County Women Who Inspire Others. For more information, visit www.Powerconnectionsinc.com.

Mike Mohajer

Mike Mohajer Before his retirement in 2003, Mike was a senior waste management official for the County of Los Angeles and the Division Chief in charge of their environmental programs. Mike has over 30 years of experience in the fields of environmental protection management working as a design engineer, planner, regulator, consulting engineer, and as a county manager.

Mike is a Registered Civil Engineer in the State of California. He is currently serving as a Director of the Southern California Waste Management Forum, the Chairman of the Los Angeles County Solid Waste Facilities Appeal Board, a Director of the BioEnergy Producers Association, the Vice Chair of the Solid Waste Association of North America's Legislative Task Force, California Chapters and Savant Company Inc. Advisory Board.

Jauher Zaidi

Jauher Zaidi is Chairman & CEO of Palmchip Corporation. Jauher has over twenty years of experience in system design and integration. Jauher received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from Pacific States University in Los Angeles, California. He has also participated in many SoC panels and is a recognized expert in the area of SoC development.

Before founding Palmchip in 1996, he was involved in system-on-chip (SoC) integration at Quantum Corporation, where he managed the ASIC Group. He also led the single-chip I/O and disk controller ASIC design projects using co-simulation at Unisys, Amdahl, and Samsung.

Howard M. Bidna

Howard M. Bidna advises Savant Company Inc. on legal matters. A senior partner in the law firm of Bidna & Keys, APLC, in Newport Beach, California, Howard has practiced business law for over 25 years.

He is a graduate of University of California, Irvine and UCLA Law School, he is a member of the State Bar of California, and he speaks annually to lawyers at Continuing Education of the Bar seminars on business law topics.