Management Team
Mike Neshat - President & CEO
An accomplished semiconductor industry veteran with over 25 years of executive management, marketing, sales, and engineering experience, Mike has served in executive positions for several successful start-ups including Fresco Microchip, WyLinx Technologies, Synad Technologies, and NxtWave Communications. He has also held senior marketing and engineering management positions with Rockwell Semiconductor, GEC Plessey Semiconductor, Silicon Systems, and Toppan Electronics. Mike received his BS in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Fullerton, and his MBA from the University of La Verne.
Oleksandr Gorbachov, Ph.D. - CTO & Chief Scientist
Oleksandr (Alex) brings 27 years of experience in the design and development of high-speed and wideband analog circuits (MMICs, RFICs, GaAs & Silicon Based RF and analog chips), microwave/millimeter-wave circuits, systems, sub-systems, RF Systems/sub-systems/architecture/circuits/modules, and RF devices. A highly respected innovator, Alex has served in a variety of senior scientist capacities for companies including STMicroelectronics, Synad Technologies, Gatax Technology, Hexawave, and ORION Research Institute. Alex received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Kiev Polytechnic Institute and holds numerous patents.
Ping Peng, Ph.D. - COO and Sr. Vice President
Ping Peng has extensive experience in R&D, systems engineering, manufacturing operation, business development, and program management in the field of antenna and wireless components and systems. Over the past 20 years, he has held senior engineering and management positions at AMP-Tyco Electronics, Foxconn Electronics, Pan International, Homer Technology, and Maxsys Technologies. Ping holds 13 issued and 7 pending patents in the wireless components, antenna and sub-system fields. Ping received his BSEE and MSEE in Electrical Engineering from Xian Jiaotong University, China. He earned his Ph.D. in Microwave Materials from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania.
Hal Hikita, MS, MBA - CFO and VP Strategic Planning
Hal has over 21 years of engineering, operations, product management & marketing, and business development in various engineering fields including active controls systems, multidisciplinary simulation and optimization, and enterprise software. Prior to joining RFaxis, Hal held several senior management positions with P&L responsibilities at MSC Software Corporation, and was a major force driving the growth of the company's core business through mergers & acquisitions, global business development, and vendor management. Hal also held senior R&D positions at PDA Engineering Inc. and the Boeing Company. In addition to his corporate experience, Hal started-up various software companies, and has considerable management consulting experience with respect to operations management, change management, PLM, and process reengineering. Hal earned his MS and MBA degrees at the University of Southern California.
Keyvan Samini, Esq., General Counsel and VP Corporate & Legal Affairs
Mr. Keyvan Samini has over 15 years experience in corporate transactional and compliance matters and has represented numerous technology corporations, including corporations specializing in semiconductor, biometric and software development. Mr. Samini has represented such companies as Goodyear-Dunlop, Dow Corning, Tenet Healthcare and The Irvine Company. Mr. Samini has counseled companies on limiting liability in various areas of business by effectively employing corporate compliance and taking steps to minimize threats of potential litigation. In 2004 Mr. Samini was selected as one of the top 5% of attorneys under 40 in California. Mr. Samini is admitted to practice law in the state of California, the United States Supreme Court, and the United States Tax Court and has served as a Judge Pro Tempore in Orange County, California. Mr. Samini earned his undergraduate Bachelors of Science degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his law degree from the Ohio State University.